Melissa Villa, DO
Emergency Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Emergency Medicine - Clifton Center for Medical Breakthroughs
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
My education and training
- Medical School: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Emergency Medicine, 2023
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine, National
- American College of Emergency Physicians, National
- American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, International
- Society of Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Melissa Villa, Christy Moore, James Deering, Jodi Flanders "An emergency medicine attending, radiologist and sonographer walk into a clinic in a low-resource setting" , American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): 2026
Melissa Villa, Breck Wcisel, James Deering, Jodi Flanders "Saving Limbs with Sound Waves: Ultrasound Diagnosis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Resource-Limited Setting" , American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): 2026
Dreyfuss, A., Schmidt, J., Villa, M. Ultrasound Applications in Global Health , Springer, Cham. : 2025
Melissa Villa, Jeffrey A. Kramer "A case of left ventricular false chordae tendineae identified on point-of-care ultrasound" , American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM): 2025
Melissa Villa, Nova Panebianco, Gwen Baraniecki-Zwil, Frances Shofer, Jodi Flanders, James Deering, Jeffrey A. Kramer "A Needs Assessment of Point of Care Ultrasound in the Resource-Limited Setting of Iquitos, Peru" , American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) : 2023