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Melissa Riley
mmriley@wustl.edu
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine
Newborn Medicine
phone: (314) 454-6148
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
Licensure and Board Certification
2005
NALS/NRP
2005
-
2011
State Board of Medicine of Pennsylvania, MT license
2008
-
Pres
NRP Regional Instructor
2008
-
Pres
State Board of Medicine of Pennsylvania, MD license
2008
American Board of Pediatrics
2012
American Board of Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
2013
-
Pres
STABLE Support Instructor
2016
-
Pres
West Virginia Board of Medicine, MD license
2020
-
Pres
MO, 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 (6)
Publication Co-Authors
Jennifer A Wambach, M.D.
Danielle Alfano
Francis Sessions Cole, III, M.D.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Last updated: 08/20/2020
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