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 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 practicing pediatrician. 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. Dr. Stockwell serves as the contact PI for the Columbia University hub site for the NIH RECOVER Long COVID study and is the chair of the RECOVER Pediatric Coordinating Committee.

Throughout her career, she has had continuous research support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA). She has published 168 scientific articles. She has been inducted into the American Pediatric Society, the oldest academic pediatric organization in North America.