Melissa A. Hilmes, M.D.

Melissa Hilmes, MD, is an honors graduate and earned her medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at University of Michigan Medical Center, which she served as chief resident, and a fellowship in Pediatric Radiology at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2007 as Assistant Professor following one year in private practice. In 2019, she was promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Hilmes’s many academic interests include medical student education at multiple levels, including faculty leadership in the Vanderbilt Program for Interprofessional Learning (VPIL), serving as a portfolio coach and co-director, and serving as course director for an ACE in pediatric radiology, a course for students in the 3rd and 4th years. Dr. Hilmes previously directed the elective in pediatric radiology for pediatric residents and interested fellows, as well as graduate students in medical physics. Research interests include MR imaging characteristics of the pancreas in diabetic patients, which is partially grant-funded. More recently, she is involved with the PRISM study, a study of children with COVID and MIS-C. The study is sponsored and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. In 2023, she received a VUSM Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Small Group Setting. She has been a member of the Academy of Excellence in Education since 2020.

Section: Pediatric Radiology