Melissa Stockwell, MD MPH is the Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Health and the Felice K. Shea Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Professor of Population and Family Health in the Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. She is also the founding director of the Department of Pediatric’s Center for Children’s Digital Health Research. Additionally, she is a pediatrician in a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-associated community clinic, and is Associate Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) practice-based research network. Dr. Stockwell’s research program, which concentrates on underserved children and adolescents, focuses on interventions to improve vaccinations, with an emphasis on health technology and health literacy, as well as on respiratory infections and long COVID. She has been inducted into the American Pediatric Society, the oldest academic pediatric organization in North America. Dr. Stockwell serves as the contact PI for the Columbia University hub site for the NIH RECOVER study and is the convening chair of the RECOVER Pediatric Coordinating Committee.
