Melissa Welker, MD MPH

Anesthesiologist, Mother, Entrepreneur

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Category(ies): Anesthesiology | Physician | Preventive Medicine | Public Health

I am an anesthesiologist that is on the journey to discover how to live with life’s big questions and uncertainty with curiosity, joy and meaning. There are so many facets in each of us and our lives and I want to delve into the messy goodness that makes each of us uniquely human and connected. Professionally, I am on a mission to explore what our work and personal lives mean to us and how to find the space where both can flourish and teams can thrive. I love sitting with anyone and discussing big ideas and finding ways to reach impossible goals.

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Thinking creatively about how we can make Anesthesiology and healthcare work for patients and those that work in healthcare.

Melissa Welker, MD MPH

Thinking creatively about how we can make Anesthesiology and healthcare work for patients and those that work in healthcare.

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Palliative Care or Rebirth: How Can Private Practice Physicians Go On These Days?

Melissa Welker, MD MPH shares how you can approach and use the upheaval in medicine as an impetus to redesign and rediscover your medical practice values.

The Audacity of Physician Autonomy

Melissa Welker, MD MPH shares thoughts about how rediscovering physician autonomy might help fix the physician staffing crisis.

Designing Your Dreams: How Prototyping Your Life Can Save Medicine

Melissa Welker, MD MPH tells of how taking the best next step can lead you closer to the life or your dreams, and a more inspired future for medicine

Owning the Messy Pivot

Melissa Welker, MD MPH writes about how achieving her student loan repayment made her reevaluate life.

Embracing the Messiness of Feedback

Melissa Welker, MD MPH examines how entrepreneurship moved her from avoiding feedback to embracing it.

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