Caroline Melhado, MD

Title(s)RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, Surgery
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    Tufts University, Boston, MABA, BS05/2012Anthropology and Environmental Science
    Tufts Unviersity School of Medicine, Boston, MAMD05/2018Medicine
    UCSF, San FranciscoGeneral Surgery
    UCSFMSc05/2023Masters in Clinical Research - Implementation Science

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    Caroline Melhado, MD is a general surgery resident at UCSF. She is currently in her third clinical year and plans to pursue a career in pediatric trauma surgery. Dr. Melhado has a BA in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Tufts University and received her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine. She was awarded a Doris Duke International Clinical Research award and spent a year in Malawi researching surgical trauma outcomes and HIV in Pregnancy. She also was selected as a Sam Ho Justice Scholar at Tufts and researched health literacy within a non-English speaking surgical population in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Her research interests include pediatric trauma outcomes and implementation science for marginalized trauma patient populations.

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    1. Functional impairment associated with nonfatal pediatric firearm injuries. Surgery. 2023 09; 174(3):692-697. Melhado CG, Sullivan TM, Stephens CQ, Burd RS, Jensen AR. PMID: 37301611.
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    2. Interrater reliability of chart-based assessment of functional impairment after pediatric injury using the functional status scale. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 09 01; 95(3):391-396. Melhado CG, Kao E, Hogan-Schlientz J, Crane D, Shui AM, Stephens CQ, Evans L, Burd RS, Jensen AR. PMID: 37012628.
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    3. A mixed-methods study on end-user perceptions of transitioning to reusable surgical gowns. Surg Open Sci. 2023 Jan; 11:33-39. Yap A, Wang K, Chen E, Melhado C, Ahmad T, O'Sullivan P, Gandhi S. PMID: 36444285; PMCID: PMC9700296.
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    4. Establishing national stakeholder priorities for quality improvement in pediatric trauma care: Consensus results using a modified Delphi process. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022 10 01; 93(4):467-473. Melhado CG, Yorkgitis BK, Patel B, Remick K, Macias CG, Dingeldein MW, Gray L, Jensen AR. PMID: 35713930.
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    5. Minimally invasive repair of asymmetric pectus excavatum: An alternative technique to treating asymmetric morphology. J Pediatr Surg. 2022 Jun; 57(6):1079-1082. Squillaro AI, Melhado C, Ozgediz D, Idowu O, Palmer B, Kim S. PMID: 35221034.
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    6. Etiology of major limb amputations at a tertiary care centre in Malawi. Malawi Med J. 2019 12; 31(4):244-248. Grudziak J, Mukuzunga C, Melhado C, Young S, Banza L, Cairns B, Charles A. PMID: 32128034; PMCID: PMC7036427.
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    7. Prevalence and factors associated with antenatal depressive symptoms among women enrolled in Option B+ antenatal HIV care in Malawi: a cross-sectional analysis. J Ment Health. 2019 Apr; 28(2):198-205. Harrington BJ, Pence BW, John M, Melhado CG, Phulusa J, Mthiko B, Gaynes BN, Maselko J, Miller WC, Hosseinipour MC. PMID: 30270683; PMCID: PMC6440874.
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    8. Apolipoprotein E Epsilon 4 Genotype, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, and the Development of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Med Sci (Basel). 2018 Sep 14; 6(3). Deng H, Ordaz A, Upadhyayula PS, Gillis-Buck EM, Suen CG, Melhado CG, Mohammed N, Lam T, Yue JK. PMID: 30223506; PMCID: PMC6163513.
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    9. Three-dimensional model of angiogenesis: coculture of human retinal cells with bovine aortic endothelial cells in the NASA bioreactor. Tissue Eng. 2003 Oct; 9(5):893-908. Dutt K, Sanford G, Harris-Hooker S, Brako L, Kumar R, Sroufe A, Melhado C. PMID: 14633374.
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