Dr. Michael Melman joined CCMG in 2013 after practicing in the San Fernando Valley for ten years.  Dr. Melman is orginally from New York and received his Bachelor's degree, with distinction, from Cornell University.  He attended The University at Buffalo School of Medicine in New York, where he graduated cum laude, and earned his MD degree in 1999.  Dr. Melman then served as a pediatric leukemia research fellow at the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute in Washington D.C., where he published two papers on acute lymphoblastic leukemia and received a Cancer Research Training Award.  His pediatric residency was completed at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.  Following his residency, Dr. Melman moved to California in 2003.  He is board certified by and a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.   He has served at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center on the Quality Care Committee. Dr. Melman has a wide variety of special interests in Pediatrics, ranging from newborn care to sports medicine and nutrition.  He enjoys working out, cooking, and spending time with his wife, Brianna, three children (Bronx, Maliya, Maverix) and their Goldendoodles, Reeses and Hershey.