Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BS, Summa Cum Laude, Youngstown State University, 2001
• MD, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, 2005

Training

• Resident, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 2005 - 2008
• Fellow, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 2008 - 2011
• Leadership Development Program, Washington University School of Medicine, 2021 - 2021
• LeadX Leadership Modules, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2021

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2005NALS/NRP
• 2005 - 2011State Board of Medicine of Pennsylvania, MT license
• 2008 - PresNRP Regional Instructor
• 2008 - PresState Board of Medicine of Pennsylvania, MD license
• 2008American Board of Pediatrics
• 2012American Board of Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
• 2013 - PresSTABLE Support Instructor
• 2016 - PresWest Virginia Board of Medicine, MD license
• 2020 - PresMO, Medical License

Honors and Awards

• Golden Humanism Honor Society, 2004
• Pediatric Resident Excellence in Neonatology Award, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2008
• Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC Quality Week, First Prize for Poster, “Reducing LOS for Neonates with Gastroschisis”, 2014
• Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation Grant for Tecotherm device, 2016
• Best Faculty Abstract Submission, Children’s Hospital and Neonatal Consortium Annual Research and Quality Symposium, 2017
• Jon F Watchko Fellowship Mentoring Award, 2017
• UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Quality Week, People’s Choice Award, “Pass the Sugar and Hand Down the Ventilation for Neonatal Perioperative Communication”, 2019

Recent Publications view all (9)

Publication Co-Authors

Jennifer A Wambach, M.D.

Danielle Alfano

Francis Sessions Cole, III, M.D.

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

1. Katelyn Snyder, Scott Maurer, Melissa Riley, Carol May, Melinda Miller, Jennifer Shenk, Gaurav Arora. Effect of methadone on QTc in infants Early Human Development. 2021. PMID:33751966 
2. Julia M Pantalone, Silvia Liu, Oluwabunmi O Olaloye, Erica C Prochaska, Toby Yanowitz, Melissa M Riley, Justin R Buland, Beverly S Brozanski, Misty Good, Liza Konnikova. Gestational Age-Specific Complete Blood Count Signatures in Necrotizing Enterocolitis Frontiers in Pediatrics. 2021;9. doi:10.3389/fped.2021.604899  PMID:33718296 
3. Noorjahan Ali, Teresa Lam, Megan M Gray, David Clausen, Melissa Riley, Theresa R Grover, Taylor Sawyer. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in quaternary neonatal intensive care units: a multicenter study Resuscitation. 2021;159:77-84. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.12.010  PMID:33359416 
4. Liang J, Alfano DN, Squires JE, Riley MM, Parks WT, Kofler J, El-Gharbawy A, Madan-Kheterpal S, Acquaro R, Picarsic J. Novel NLRC4 Mutation Causes a Syndrome of Perinatal Autoinflammation With Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis, Hepatosplenomegaly, Fetal Thrombotic Vasculopathy, and Congenital Anemia and Ascites. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2017;20(6):498-505. PMID:28403691 
5. Jackson L, Madan-Khetarpal S, Naik M, Michaels MG, Riley M. Infant Botulism in the Very Young Neonate: A Case Series. AJP Rep. 2017;7(3):e163-e166. PMCID:PMC5536996  PMID:28765793 
6. Frazer LC, Scurlock AM, Zurenski MA, Riley MM, Mintus M, Pociask DA, Sullivan JE, Andrews CW Jr, Darville T. IL-23 induces IL-22 and IL-17 production in response to Chlamydia muridarum genital tract infection, but the absence of these cytokines does not influence disease pathogenesis. Am J Reprod Immunol. 2013;70(6):472-84. PMCID:PMC3852156  PMID:24238108 
7. Nguyen L, Riley MM, Sen P, Galambos C. Alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins with a wide spectrum of extrapulmonary manifestations. Pathol Int. 2013;63(10):519-21. PMID:24147432 
8. Sen P, Yang Y, Navarro C, Silva I, Szafranski P, Kolodziejska KE, Dharmadhikari AV, Mostafa H, Kozakewich H, Kearney D, Cahill JB, Whitt M, Bilic M, Margraf L, Charles A, Goldblatt J, Gibson K, Lantz PE, Garvin AJ, Petty J, Kiblawi Z, Zuppan C, McConkie-Rosell A, McDonald MT, Peterson-Carmichael SL, Gaede JT, Shivanna B, Schady D, Friedlich PS, Hays SR, Palafoll IV, Siebers-Renelt U, Bohring A, Finn LS, Siebert JR, Galambos C, Nguyen L, Riley M, Chassaing N, Vigouroux A, Rocha G, Fernandes S, Brumbaugh J, Roberts K, Ho-Ming L, Lo IF, Lam S, Gerychova R, Jezova M, Valaskova I, Fellmann F, Afshar K, Giannoni E, Muhlethaler V, Liang J, Beckmann JS, Lioy J, Deshmukh H, Srinivasan L, Swarr DT, Sloman M, Shaw-Smith C, van Loon RL, Hagman C, Sznajer Y, Barrea C, Galant C, Detaille T, Wambach JA, Cole FS, Hamvas A, Prince LS, Diderich KE, Brooks AS, Verdijk RM, Ravindranathan H, Sugo E, Mowat D, Baker ML, Langston C, Welty S, Stankiewicz P. Novel FOXF1 mutations in sporadic and familial cases of alveolar capillary dysplasia with misaligned pulmonary veins imply a role for its DNA binding domain. Hum Mutat. 2013;34(6):801-11. PMCID:PMC3663886  PMID:23505205 
9. Riley MM, Zurenski MA, Frazer LC, O'Connell CM, Andrews CW Jr, Mintus M, Darville T. The recall response induced by genital challenge with Chlamydia muridarum protects the oviduct from pathology but not from reinfection. Infect Immun. 2012;80(6):2194-203. PMCID:PMC3370586  PMID:22431649