About Me

Anthony J. Mell, MD, MBA - Course Director

Anthony J. Mell has made health equity a core component of his professional and personal life. Anthony grew up in a rural community called Oley Valley, PA. His father worked most of his life as a crane operator and his mother was a lunch lady and teacher's aide in the Oley Valley school district. Anthony was the first member of his family to go to college and did so only because of full ride scholarship based on a mix of merit and financial need. Anthony's grew up in a multiracial family in a part of Pennsylvania where that was very uncommon. He experienced the effects of racism on his family both from the community and from within his own family from a young age. Additionally, Anthony has epilepsy and has personally struggled through being a doctor with a disability and the stigma, challenges, and insights that come with that. Before becoming a physician Anthony worked with children in the foster care system, adults with learning disabilities, bi-polar disorder and autism, and new immigrant populations. Now as a physician Anthony continues to work in the health equity space and with oppressed communities. 

Some equity related positions that Anthony currently or has previous held include being a fellow in the Ravin Davidoff Executive Health Equity Fellowship, where he is being formally trained in health equity implementation science, teaching, and health systems management; being the Course Director for the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy (LEAD) for the Boston Combined Residency Program, where he is tasked with educating a new generation of leaders in health equity; being a faculty mentor for the Health Equity Rounds Program in the Boston Combined Residency Program through which he mentors residents on how to give grand rounds on specific health equity topics to the entire pediatric department; and being the Assistant Medical Director, Health Equity Clinical Lead, in Population Health Services at Boston Medical Center Health System. 

Anthony believes that health equity is a core part of his identity as a physician. He hopes to push health systems to think how they can help oppressed groups but also how they are contributing to their oppression. As he continues in his career he hopes to continue educating residents and medical students while also taking a leading role in embedding health equity into the operations of health systems, Accountable Care Organizations, and the national health landscape.