Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BS, cum laude, Tulane University, 2003
• MD, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 2008
• MSCI, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014

Training

• Resident Physician, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2008 - 2011
• Clinical Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 - 2014

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2012 - 2022General Pediatrics Board Certified
• 2013 - PresMO, Missouri Medical License
• 2015 - 2025Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Honors and Awards

• Institute of Clinical and Translational Science Research Forum for Child Health Supplemental Funding Award, 2015
• American Society of Hematology Clinical Research Training Institute Participant, 2016
• American Society of Hematology Advocacy Leadership Institute, 2017
• Key Opinion Leader for Sickle Cell Disease Poster Walk at the 2020 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, 2020

Recent Publications view all (13)

Publication Co-Authors

Ronald Jackups, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

Monica Hulbert, M.D.

Allison King, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Kristin Guilliams, MD MSCI

Philip C. Spinella, M.D., FCCM

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Fields, Melanie

1. Fields ME. Personalizing transfusion in sickle cell disease: where is the canary in the mine? Transfusion. 2019;59(8):2493-2495. PMID:31374145 
2. Hood AM, King AA, Fields ME, Ford AL, Guilliams KP, Hulbert ML, Lee JM, White DA. Higher executive abilities following a blood transfusion in children and young adults with sickle cell disease. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2019;66(10):e27899. doi:10.1002/pbc.27899  PMCID:PMC6707832  PMID:31267645 
3. Fields ME, Guilliams KP, Ragan D, Binkley MM, Mirro A, Fellah S, Hulbert ML, Blinder M, Eldeniz C, Vo K, Shimony JS, Chen Y, McKinstry RC, An H, Lee JM, Ford AL. Hydroxyurea reduces cerebral metabolic stress in patients with sickle cell anemia. Blood. 2019. PMID:30858231 
4. Guilliams KP, Fields ME, Dowling MM. Advances in Understanding Ischemic Stroke Physiology and the Impact of Vasculopathy in Children With Sickle Cell Disease. Stroke. 2019;50(2):266-273. PMCID:PMC6385587  PMID:30661504 
5. Ford AL, Ragan DK, Fellah S, Binkley MM, Fields ME, Guilliams KP, An H, Jordan LC, McKinstry RC, Lee JM, DeBaun MR. Silent infarcts in sickle cell anemia occur in the borderzone region and are associated with low cerebral blood flow. Blood. 2018. PMID:30061156 
6. Fields ME, Guilliams KP, Ragan DK, Binkley MM, Eldeniz C, Chen Y, Hulbert ML, McKinstry RC, Shimony JS, Vo KD, Doctor A, An H, Ford AL, Lee JM. Regional oxygen extraction predicts border zone vulnerability to stroke in sickle cell disease. Neurology. 2018. PMID:29500287 
7. Guilliams KP, Fields ME, Ragan DK, Eldeniz C, Binkley MM, Chen Y, Comiskey LS, Doctor A, Hulbert ML, Shimony JS, Vo KD, McKinstry RC, An H, Lee JM, Ford AL. Red cell exchange transfusions lower cerebral blood flow and oxygen extraction fraction in pediatric sickle cell anemia. Blood. 2017. PMID:29255068 
8. Guilliams KP, Fields ME, Ragan DK, Chen Y, Eldeniz C, Hulbert ML, Binkley MM, Rhodes JN, Shimony JS, McKinstry RC, Vo KD, An H, Lee JM, Ford AL.. Large-Vessel Vasculopathy in Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Infarct Topography and Focal Atrophy Pediatric Neurology. 2016. PMID:28159432 
9. Fields ME, Hoty-Drazen C, Abel R, Rodeghier MJ, Yarboi JM, Compas BE, King AA. A Pilot Study of Parent Education Intervention Improves Early Childhood Development Among Toddlers with Sickle Cell Disease Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 2016;63(12):2131-2138. PMID:27509845 
10. Fields ME, Hulbert ML, Chen L, Berlin AN, Jackups R, Spinella, PC. Red Blood Cell Storage Duration is Not Associated with Clinical Outcomes for Acute Chest Syndrome in Children with Sickle Cell Disease Transfusion. 2015. PMID:26033266 
11. Guilliams KP, Fields ME, Hulbert ML. Higher-than-expected prevalence of silent cerebral infarcts in children with hemoglobin SC disease Blood. 2015;125(2):416. PMID:25573975 
12. Fields ME, Mirro AE, Guilliams KP, Binkley MM, Gil Diaz L, Tan J, Fellah S, Eldeniz C, Chen Y, Ford AL, Shimony JS, King AA, An H, Smyser CD, Lee J-M.. Functional Connectivity Decreases with Metabolic Stress in Sickle Cell Disease Annals of Neurology. 
13. Eldeniz C, Binkley MM, Fields ME, Guilliams KP, Ragan DK, Comiskey L, Chen Y, Lee J-M, Ford AL, An H.. Bulk Volume Susceptibility Difference Between Deoxyhemoglobin and Oxyhemoglobin for HbA and HbS: A Comparative Study Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.