Dr. Melissa Lynn Gilliam
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecology
5841 S Maryland Ave # 2050 Chicago IL, 60637About
An expert in pediatric and adolescent gynecology, Dr. Melissa Gilliam helps children, teens and women age 25 and younger who have complex gynecologic problems or need routine care. Dr. Gilliam special ...
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1993
Harvard Medical School 1993
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Importance and knowledge of oral contraceptives in antepartum, low-income, African American adolescents.
- Concerns about contraceptive side effects among young Latinas: a focus-group approach.
- Providing contraceptive care to low-income, African American teens: the experience of urban community health centers.
- Interpersonal and personal factors influencing sexual debut among Mexican-American young women in the United States.
- Factors influencing the acceptability of coitus interruptus among Latina teens and young adults.
- Sexually transmitted infections in adolescent women.
- A call to incorporate a reproductive justice agenda into reproductive health clinical practice and policy.
- The millennium development goals and providers of women's health care: opportunity and action.
- Effects of oral contraceptives or a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist on
- Global initiatives.
- Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Family Planning Education among Third Year Medical Students.
- Adherence and acceptability of the contraceptive ring compared with the pill among students: a randomized controlled trial.
- Correlates of use of long-acting reversible methods of contraception among adolescent and young adult women.
- Daily context matters: predictors of missed oral contraceptive pills among college and graduate students.
- Parental involvement laws and parent-daughter communication: policy without proof.
Treatments
- Gynecological Problems, Family Planning, Menstrual Disorders And More
- Pain
- Menstrual Cramps
Professional Memberships
- Member American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Member American Medical Association
- Member Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
- Member American Public Health Association
- Member North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
- Member Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
- Member Society of Family Planning
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