Melissa Villa, DO

Emergency Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Emergency Medicine - Clifton Center for Medical Breakthroughs
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Call 215-662-4000
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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.

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.
Dr. Villa is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

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