Michelle Mello
{{Short description|American empirical health law scholar}}
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| education =Stanford University (BA)
University of Oxford (MPhil)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD)
Yale Law School (JD)
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Michelle Marie Mello is an American empirical health law scholar. She is a Full Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a Full Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. In 2013, Mello was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Early life and education
Mello was born and raised in California to parents David and Susan alongside two brothers.{{cite web |title=David John Mello |url=https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/10094678/David-John-Mello |publisher=Tribute Archive |access-date=August 6, 2022}} She attended Fred C. Beyer High School. During her junior year, Mello was named one of 12 finalists for the student representative position on the California Board of Education.{{cite news |last1=Sotero |first1=Ray |title=Beyer junior eyes state board post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107066384/beyer-junior-eyes-state-board-post/ |access-date=August 6, 2022 |publisher=The Modesto Bee |date=November 27, 1987|via=newspapers.com}} As a senior, Mello was selected an Outstanding Young Woman by the Stanislaus County Commission.{{cite news |date=March 5, 1989 |title=Michelle Mello: Involved student |publisher=The Modesto Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107066491/michelle-mello-involved-student/ |access-date=August 6, 2022 |via=newspapers.com}}
After graduating from Beyer High School, Mello enrolled at Stanford University for her Bachelor of Arts degree.{{cite news |title=Beyer grad wins a top scholarship |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107066358/beyer-grad-wins-a-top-scholarship/ |access-date=August 6, 2022 |publisher=The Modesto Bee |date=January 24, 1993|via=newspapers.com}} At Stanford, she double-majored in political science and applied ethics, and was part of the Ethics in Society honors program.{{cite web |last1=Driscoll |first1=Sharon |title=Michelle Mello (BA '93) |url=https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/michelle-mello-ba-93/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=June 11, 2023 |date=November 13, 2014}} Following her graduation in 1993, she received a Marshall scholarship to spend two years at the University of Oxford for her Master's degree and then chose to enroll in law school.{{cite news |title=Honor: 1 of 26 picked for Oxford |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107066447/honor-1-of-26-picked-for-oxford/ |access-date=August 6, 2022 |publisher=The Modesto Bee |date=January 24, 1993|via=newspapers.com}} While completing her JD at Yale Law School, Mello also completed her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.{{cite web |title=Michelle M. Mello |url=https://law.stanford.edu/directory/michelle-m-mello/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=June 11, 2023}}
Career
Following her PhD, Mello became an assistant professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she taught health policy and law.{{cite news |last1=Doyle |first1=Michael |title=High school debaters get final word on success |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-modesto-bee-high-school-debaters-get/107066585/ |access-date=June 12, 2023 |publisher=The Modesto Bee |date=June 9, 2002|via=newspapers.com}} Early into her tenure at Harvard, Mello was a member of The Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program and she received a grant to fund her research project entitled "Ethical Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry."{{cite web |title=Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil |url=https://greenwall.org/faculty-scholars-program/our-faculty-scholars/michelle-mello-jd-phd-mphil |publisher=The Greenwall Foundation |access-date=June 12, 2023}} Mello was also the recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to study disclosure and compensation of medical injuries.{{cite web |title=Michelle M. Mello J.D., Ph.D., M.Phil. |url=http://investigatorawards.org/investigators/michelle-mello.html |publisher=Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |access-date=June 12, 2023}} Later during her tenure at Harvard, Mello led two large-scale projects evaluating 5 New York City hospitals' implementation of the communication-and-resolution program (CRP) in general surgery. The purpose of CRP was to investigate how hospitals and liability insurers could improve their responses to unanticipated care outcomes for patients and families.{{cite journal |last1=Mello |first1=Michelle M. |last2=Senecal |first2=Susan K. |last3=Kuznetsov |first3=Yelena |last4=Cohn |first4=Janet S. |title=Implementing hospital-based communication-and-resolution programs: lessons learned in New York City |journal=Health Affairs |date=January 2014 |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=30–38 |doi=10.1377/hlthaff.2013.0849 |pmid=24395932 |doi-access=free }} In 2013, Mello was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine for her impact in the field of public health.{{cite web |title=Jha, Mello elected to Institute of Medicine |url=https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/jha-mello-elected-to-institute-of-medicine/ |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=June 12, 2023 |date=October 21, 2013}}
In 2014, Mello left Harvard to become a professor of law at the Stanford Law School with a joint appointment as a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine.{{cite web |title=Leading Public Health Law Scholar Michelle Mello Joins Stanford Law School Faculty |url=https://law.stanford.edu/press/leading-public-health-law-scholar-michelle-mello-joins-stanford-law-school-faculty/ |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=June 12, 2023 |date=June 9, 2014}} In 2022, Mello was awarded the 2022 John A. Benson Jr., MD Professionalism Article Prize by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation for her article, "When Physicians Engage in Practices That Threaten the Nation’s Health." She was also appointed as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine including on a committee studying the potential value of wastewater surveillance in the prevention and control of infectious diseases.{{cite web |title=Mello Awarded MD Article Prize |url=https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/mello-awarded-md-article-prize/ |publisher=June 12, 2023 |access-date=June 12, 2023 |date=June 15, 2023}}
Personal life
Mello is married and has two sons.{{cite news |last1=Mello |first1=Michelle |title=My husband had a stroke after his COVID vaccine. We gave our kid his shot anyway |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/My-husband-had-a-stroke-after-his-COVID-vaccine-16294412.php |access-date=August 6, 2022 |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=July 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706113820/https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/My-husband-had-a-stroke-after-his-COVID-vaccine-16294412.php |archive-date=July 6, 2021}}
References
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External links
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