Melody J. Glenn, MD, MFA
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine - (Clinical Scholar Track)
Director, Medical Humanities
Dr. Glenn is a practicing addiction, emergency, and emergency medical services (EMS) physician, and serves as faculty in the emergency medicine residency as well the addiction medicine and EMS fellowships. She is the base hospital medical director at Banner/College of Medicine – Tucson, serving as the medical director for several fire departments in the rural borderlands of Southern Arizona. She develops curricula and teaches seminars in narrative medicine, and is the author of several articles that merge journalism with personal essays to address various themes in health care. She just finished her first book.
Degree(s)
- MD: University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, 2013
- MFA: Mills College, Oakland, California, 2021
Residency
Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, 2016
Fellowship
University of California, San Francisco, Emergency Medical Services & Disaster Medicine, 2017
Board Certifications
Emergency Medical Services, 2017
Research Interests
addiction, EMS, public health policy