Caroline Melhado, MD
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Surgery
School of Medicine

She was awarded a Doris Duke International Clinical Research award and spent a year in Malawi researching surgical trauma outcomes and HIV in Pregnancy. She also was selected as a Sam Ho Justice Scholar at Tufts and researched health literacy within a non-English speaking surgical population in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Her research interests include pediatric trauma outcomes and implementation science for marginalized trauma patient populations.

• Corrigendum to "Cervical Collar-Associated Pressure Injury in Pediatric Trauma Patients: A Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium Study" [J Pediatr Surg 59 (2024) 326-330].
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2024 Melhado C, Russell KW, Acker SN, Padilla BE, Lofberg K, Spurrier RG, Robinson B, Chao S, Ignacio RC, Ryan M, Jensen AR, Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium Cervical Spine Injury Study Group
• The sensitivity of limited-sequence magnetic resonance imaging in identifying pediatric cervical spine injury: A Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium multicenter retrospective cohort study.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2024 Melhado C, Durand R, Russell KW, Polukoff NE, Rampton J, Iyer RR, Acker SN, Koehler R, Prendergast C, Stence N, O'Neill B, Padilla BE, Jamshidi R, Vaughn JA, Ronecker JS, Selesner L, Lofberg K, Regner…
• Evaluating Health Literacy in Families of Injured Children: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study at a Level One Pediatric Trauma Center.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2024 Melhado C, Kao E, Evans L, Stephens CQ, Lee H, Jensen AR
• Utility of Enteral Contrast Protocols in Pediatric Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study.
  Annals of surgery 2024 Acker SN, Ignacio R, Russell KW, Kelley-Quon L, Lofberg K, Lee J, Jensen AR, Pickett-Nairne K, Prendergast C, Iantorno SE, Thangarajah H, Patwardhan U, Melhado C, Zhong A, Padilla B, Rothstein DH, …
• Decision-Making in Pleural Drainage Following Lung Resection in Children: A Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium Survey.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2024 Schnuck JK, Acker SN, Kelley-Quon LI, Lee JH, Shew SB, Fialkowski E, Ignacio RC, Melhado C, Qureshi FG, Russell KW, Rothstein DH, Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium
• Factors associated with trauma recidivism in young children.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2024 Stephens CQ, Melhado CG, Shui AM, Yap A, Moses W, Jensen AR, Newton C
• Benchmarking Pediatric Trauma Care in Mixed Trauma Centers: Adult Risk-Adjusted Mortality Is Not a Reliable Indicator of Pediatric Outcomes.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2023 Melhado C, Evans LL, Miskovic A, Subacius H, Nathens AB, Stein DM, Burd RS, Jensen AR
• Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in Trauma: Results of a Quality Improvement Project.
  The Journal of surgical research 2023 Decker H, Schwab M, Shao S, Kaki D, Melhado C, Cuschieri J, Bongiovanni T
• Cervical Collar-Associated Pressure Injury in Pediatric Trauma Patients: A Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium Study.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2023 Melhado C, Russell KW, Acker SN, Padilla BE, Lofberg K, Spurrier RG, Robinson B, Chao S, Ignacio RC, Ryan M, Jensen AR, Western Pediatric Surgery Research Consortium Cervical Spine Injury Study Group
• The Association between Pediatric Readiness and Mortality for Injured Children Treated at US Trauma Centers.
  Annals of surgery 2023 Melhado C, Remick K, Miskovic A, Patel B, Hewes HA, Newgard CD, Nathens AB, Macias C, Gray L, Yorkgitis BK, Dingeldein MW, Jensen AR
• Outcomes of Extracorporeal Life Support Utilization for Pediatric Patients With COVID-19 Infections.
  ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992) 2023 Jacobson JC, Ryan ML, Vogel AM, Mehl SC, Acker SN, Prendergast C, Padilla BE, Lee J, Chao SD, Martin NR, Russell KW, Larsen K, Harting MT, Linden AF, Ignacio RC, Slater BJ, Juang D, Jensen AR, Melhado…
• Functional impairment associated with nonfatal pediatric firearm injuries.
  Surgery 2023 Melhado CG, Sullivan TM, Stephens CQ, Burd RS, Jensen AR
• Interrater reliability of chart-based assessment of functional impairment after pediatric injury using the functional status scale.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2023 Melhado CG, Kao E, Hogan-Schlientz J, Crane D, Shui AM, Stephens CQ, Evans L, Burd RS, Jensen AR
• A mixed-methods study on end-user perceptions of transitioning to reusable surgical gowns.
  Surgery open science 2022 Yap A, Wang K, Chen E, Melhado C, Ahmad T, O'Sullivan P, Gandhi S
• Establishing national stakeholder priorities for quality improvement in pediatric trauma care: Consensus results using a modified Delphi process.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2022 Melhado CG, Yorkgitis BK, Patel B, Remick K, Macias CG, Dingeldein MW, Gray L, Jensen AR
• Minimally invasive repair of asymmetric pectus excavatum: An alternative technique to treating asymmetric morphology.
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2022 Squillaro AI, Melhado C, Ozgediz D, Idowu O, Palmer B, Kim S
• Etiology of major limb amputations at a tertiary care centre in Malawi.
  Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi 2019 Grudziak J, Mukuzunga C, Melhado C, Young S, Banza L, Cairns B, Charles A
• Prevalence and factors associated with antenatal depressive symptoms among women enrolled in Option B+ antenatal HIV care in Malawi: a cross-sectional analysis.
  Journal of mental health (Abingdon, England) 2018 Harrington BJ, Pence BW, John M, Melhado CG, Phulusa J, Mthiko B, Gaynes BN, Maselko J, Miller WC, Hosseinipour MC
• Apolipoprotein E Epsilon 4 Genotype, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, and the Development of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
  Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) 2018 Deng H, Ordaz A, Upadhyayula PS, Gillis-Buck EM, Suen CG, Melhado CG, Mohammed N, Lam T, Yue JK
• Three-dimensional model of angiogenesis: coculture of human retinal cells with bovine aortic endothelial cells in the NASA bioreactor.
  Tissue engineering 2003 Dutt K, Sanford G, Harris-Hooker S, Brako L, Kumar R, Sroufe A, Melhado C