Anthony J. Mell, MD, MBA

Anthony J. Mell, MD, MBA, is a board-certified primary care pediatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Dr. Mell hails originally from a rural area of Pennsylvania. While completing his undergraduate education and MBA at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey, Dr. Mell worked closely with several disinvested communities including adults with autism, youth in the foster care system, and youth in the criminal legal system. He earned his medical degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where he worked closely with the immigrant community in East Harlem. He completed his pediatrics residency training through the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track.

Dr. Mell was the inaugural Ravin Davidoff Health Equity Fellow at BMC. During his fellowship he studied health equity, implementation sciences, and health system management. He applied those skills to intervention-based projects by working with BMC’s Health Equity Accelerator, a health system–wide collaboration to improve the healthcare of BMC’s patients by specifically focusing on health inequities. In his roles as the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Course Director and as a Health Equity Rounds Faculty Mentor, Dr. Mell routinely teaches health equity content, including an 18-month-long health equity curriculum, to residents and medical students. He also mentors residents, and has led teaching sessions on racism across multiple departments in his institution and to all levels of learners, medical students, residents, and faculty.

Dr. Mell’s areas of interest include quality improvement and implementation science; racial socialization; the care of criminal legal system–involved youth and youth in the foster care system; the deconstruction of the school-to-prison pipeline; economic mobility; population health management; and disability justice.