Melissa Wellons, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Phone
(615) 343-6756
My research focuses on the relationship between gonadal aging and/or artificial gonadal hormone manipulation and cardiometabolic disease. I am especially interested in how the loss of gonadal hormones contributes to the development of atherosclerosis and diabetes.
I work with large epidemiologic studies to explore how reproductive aging contributes to cardiometabolic disease. These cohorts include CARDIA, MESA, and REGARDS. More recently, I have become involved with the Veterans Aging Cohort Study of HIV-infected persons in work to identify immune markers of diabetes risk.