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Meet Our Advocates: Dr. Melissa Myo (she/her)

Where do you call home?
Bay Area.

What are your clinical or research interests?
Improving patient experience with IUDs.

What current policy issue motivates you to be an advocate?
The intentional harm that is being enacted on bodily and reproductive autonomy, from Dobbs to the transphobic narratives that are being codified into policy.

What local justice-centered organization do you wish we knew about?
Access Reproductive Justice.

What is bringing you joy these days?
Reading and being able to discuss those readings critically with my friends and loved ones.

Our Meet Our Advocates series showcases the talents and passion of one of our doctors and finds out, in their own words, what inspires them to be physician advocates. Melissa Myo, MD, MS is a current Fellow in our Leadership Training Academy Class of 2023. Dr. Myo practices complex family planning in California.

Read more interviews from the Meet Our Advocates series.