Melissa E. Clarke, MD

Dr. Melissa Clarke is an Assistant Professor and Director of Research in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Howard University School of Medicine. She has held this position since completing her residency six years ago at Georgetown/George Washington University Hospitals in Emergency Medicine. Her primary area of interest is telemedicine and its applications on the Internet. She is executive project director of the Emergency Medicine Internet Teaching Tool (EMITT) a USAID - sponsored project with University of the Transkei, South Africa. This project was highlighted on a USAID Policy Roundtable on Higher Education Uses of lnternet Technologies-NewApplications forl nternational Development and has been further supplemented by the Clinton Presidential Education for Development and Democracy Initiative. In addition to her work in telemedicine, Dr. Clarke is also widely published in other areas of emergency medicine and health policy. Her professional affiliations include the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the National Medical Association, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Her service activities outside the University have included teaching child injury prevention to parents in Tanzania and teaching CPR and life support classes to health providers in Nicaragua and Guatemala. At Howard University, her work has included committee membership on the Institutional Review Board, the Howard University Republic of South Africa Project (HURSAP), and the International Health Planning Committee. Dr. Clarke is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician who finished residency at Georgetown/George Washington Universities, received her MD from University of California, San Francisco and her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University. She currently resides in Silver Spring, MD.