Melissa Y. Wei MD MPH, MS (She/Her)

Summary

• Dr. Melissa Wei, based in Los Angeles, CA, is a board-certified physician-investigator who specializes in Internal Medicine. She is an Associate Professor-in-Residence of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and staff physician at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. She completed her medical education at Oregon Health and Science University, residency at Emory University, and fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on epidemiology, health services research, primary care, chronic disease prevention, and she is a leading expert on multimorbidity (multiple chronic conditions). She developed and validated the multimorbidity-weighted index (MWI) that has been used by several researchers and implemented the nationally in the VA CAN 3.0 score. Dr. Wei has published several significant articles and has been recognized with numerous awards, such as the Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine Best Oral Abstract Award from SGIM in 2021. She serves as the Principal Investigator, co-Investigator, and multimorbidity technical expert on several federally funded research grants from the NIH and VHA.