Melissa Nothnagle, MD, MSc

Dr. Melissa Nothnagle is a native New Englander who ventured west for medical school at the University of California San Francisco after undergraduate studies at Brown University. She came back to Brown for residency, and stayed for 15 years as faculty and then program director. In 2017 her family decided they’d had enough of winter and moved to the west coast, where she became Program Director and Chief of Family Medicine at Natividad, a single residency county hospital in Salinas, CA serving the agricultural workers of the Salinas Valley. 

Dr. Nothnagle earned a Master of Science in Health Professions Education from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and has published educational research on abortion training, procedural skills training, professional identity formation and self-directed learning. Her clinical interests include reproductive health, maternal child health, and caring for Latinx patients. She practices OB and inpatient care for patients of all ages, in addition to outpatient family medicine and reproductive health training. She maintains her wellness through good friends, vegan cooking (and eating), CrossFit and spending time outdoors with her family in beautiful Monterey County.