Melissa Morelli-Walsh is a clinical instructor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her research focuses on breastfeeding and neonatal abstinence syndrome. She is a nurse, midwife, and lactation consultant at NYU Langone Medical Center. Along with her midwifery colleague Susan Altman, Morelli-Walsh received a 2017 NYU Curriculum Challenge Development Grant that supported the development of a graduate course in breastfeeding and human lactation at NYU Meyers.
Morelli-Walsh received her MA from NYU Meyers, BSN from the University of Pennsylvania, and BS from Cornell University. She is currently a PhD candidate at NYU Meyers. Her dissertation topic is breastfeeding's role as a recovery tool for mothers with an opioid-use disorder.
