Melissa Langhan, MD, MHS

Dr. Melissa Langhan is an associate professor in pediatric emergency medicine at Yale University with a focus in clinical, patient-oriented research and medical education scholarship. Melissa completed her medical education at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn where she graduated summa cum laude in 2000. From here she completed residency and chief residency in pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Yale University in New Haven, CT.

Her early clinical research focused on the use of bedside technology, including capnography, portable spirometry and bedside ultrasonography to improve the accuracy of patient care in the emergency department. She then began honing in on capnography, assessing its use to monitor ventilation in patients with acute asthma exacerbations, altered mental status, procedural sedation and endotracheal intubation, as well as assessing the utilization of capnography in different patient care areas. Melissa later employed translational research methods to improve the dissemination and implementation of research into practice. She has explored the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of technology into acute care settings and completed a pilot study to improve use capnography in the emergency department for critically ill patients.

Dr. Langhan also serves as the fellowship director for pediatric emergency medicine and is engaged in both local and multicenter collaborative research in medical education. She serves on the Subspecialty Pediatric Investigative Network and the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Directors Committee. Currently, her focus is on educational research, in particular on assessing for biases and disparities in the evaluation of trainees and prospective candidates, use of different assessment methods, as well as developing new curricula and fostering educational scholarship.