Professional Bio
Melanie Skelton, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program.
She completed undergraduate and graduate science degrees from the University of Florida. She earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia, and subsequently completed her internal medicine residency and hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
After fellowship, Dr. Skelton worked in Topeka, Kansas, providing inpatient and outpatient palliative medicine consultative services for Stormont Vail Health. She later relocated closer to family in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she helped develop a new palliative medicine program for Holy Cross Hospital while working with University of Miami medical residents.
Dr. Skelton's interest in promoting palliative medicine education brought her back to Nashville to work as a clinician-educator for VUMC and the affiliated Veterans Administration Medical Center. She is also interested in expanding access to palliative care, having previously worked in areas where services were limited.
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Education
MS - Human Nutrition - University of Florida, 2000
MD - Medical College of Georgia, 2011
Residency - Vanderbilt University, 2014
Fellowship - Hospice and Palliative Medicine - Vanderbilt University, 2015
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307