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Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
WVU Medicine
Melody Phillips, MD, Dip-ABLM, CCMS is an assistant professor of Family Medicine at West Virginia University and Morgantown faculty for the medical school’s Culinary and Lifestyle Medicine track (CLMT). After graduating from Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University and completing her Family Medicine Residency at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, she accepted a position at WVU as Family Medicine faculty and soon became a physician lead for the clinic’s Interdisciplinary Diabetes Clinic, leading a team that includes pharmacists, behavioral medicine, and a dietitian as well as their learners helping to improve care for those with diabetes that have barriers to successful treatment.
Her passion for nutrition led her to pursue a faculty development grant for training in Culinary Medicine. Her work teaching medical students in the CLMT as well as acting as faculty advisor for the WVU chapter of Walk with a Future Doc and the Culinary Interest Group grew a passion for Lifestyle Medicine that spurred certification as well as implementation of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum in the Family Medicine Residency program and transformation of the Culinary Interest Group into a Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group. She is passionate about instructing both patients and learners about the integration of metabolic and lifestyle medicine, and how to take health into one’s own hands.