Rate My Professor Melissa Gilliam

Gilliam's academic interests center on integrating medicine, public health, social sciences, and technology to improve reproductive health outcomes for adolescents, including contraceptive access, counseling innovations, and the effects of community violence on pregnancy. Her key publications include "Development and testing of an iOS waiting room 'app' for contraceptive counseling in a Title X family planning clinic" (American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2014), "Three-year efficacy and safety of a new 52-mg levonorgestrel intrauterine system" (Contraception, 2016), "Meeting Contraceptive Preferences Among Low-Income Postpartum Women" (Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2009), and "Community Violence Exposure and Adolescent Pregnancy in Chicago" (Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2020). She received the Senior Faculty Scholar award from the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago (2013-2014). Gilliam has delivered invited lectures, such as on professional development at the Chicago Academic Medicine Program (2007), and her leadership has advanced health justice, diversity in academia, and innovative interventions in adolescent medicine.