Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #94 – Melinda Elliot, MD – Feeding the Infants –

Right now, we discover the intersections of cutting-edge science, compassionate care, and the way forward for pediatric and maternal well being with Dr. Melinda Elliott, MD, FAAP, a number one neonatologist and the Chief Medical Officer at Prolacta Bioscience. Dr. Elliott has devoted her profession to advancing the care of our most susceptible sufferers, untimely and medically fragile infants, via each medical excellence and research-driven innovation.

Dr. Elliott earned her medical diploma from West Virginia College College of Drugs. She went on to finish her residency in pediatrics and her fellowship in neonatal-perinatal drugs on the College of Florida, the place she additionally served as chief resident and a college member, serving to to coach the subsequent era of pediatricians and neonatologists.

All through her medical and management profession, Dr. Elliott has been deeply concerned in advancing evidence-based care within the NICU, bettering dietary methods for preterm infants, and advocating for human milk as a therapeutic intervention in neonatal well being. Her work with Prolacta Bioscience helps NICUs across the globe in offering 100% human milk–primarily based diet to cut back issues comparable to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating situation that disproportionately impacts preterm infants.