Melissa Bartick

Melissa Bartick, MD, MSc, FABM works as a hospitalist at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge MA, is an internist and is an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has numerous breastfeeding publications in peer-reviewed journals. She served as the chair of the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition from 2002 to 2014, where she was also a founder of Ban the Bags. She served on the Board of Directors of the United States Breastfeeding Committee from 2009-2015. She has served on the Board of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine since 2019, where she has coauthored clinical protocols, including the 2020 Bedsharing and Breastfeeding protocol. She was founder of the Breastfeeding Forum of the American Public Health Association, where she served two terms as chair. She is founder and co-chair of her state’s Baby-Friendly Hospital Collaborative. She has blog contributions to the Huffington Post, the WBUR CommonHealth Blog, among others. Dr. Bartick received her BA from the University of Virginia and holds an MSc in Health and Medical Sciences from University of California, Berkeley and an MD from University of California, San Francisco. She works as a hospitalist at Mount Auburn Hospital and is the mother of two grown sons. As of June 2020, she is pursuing an MPH at Harvard School of Public Health.

Companies

• Hospitalist Atrius Health at Mount Auburn Hospital (2020)
• Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School (2013)
• Member American Public Health Association (2005)
• Hospitalist, Assistant Professor of Medicine Cambridge Health Alliance (2005 — 2020)
• Delegate; Board member United States Breastfeeding Committee (2009 — 2015)
• Chair Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition (2002 — 2014)

Education

• Master of Public Health - MPH, Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2020 — 2022)
• M.D. University of California, San Francisco - School of Medicine (1985 — 1990)
• Master of Science (MSc) University of California, Berkeley (1985 — 1988)
• Bachelor's degree University of Virginia (1980 — 1984)