Melanie B. Gillingham

Melanie B. Gillingham is a Professor of Molecular and Medical Genetics at Oregon Health & Science University, where she directs the Master’s Program in Human Nutrition. Her research integrates clinical nutrition, metabolism, and genetics, focusing on energy expenditure, obesity across economic spectra, and dietary management in inborn errors of metabolism. Her recent work includes predictive equations from doubly labelled water measurements to detect erroneous self-reported energy intake, prediction-based bedtime interventions to reduce nocturnal hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes, and metabolomic and lipidomic analyses in long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. She has also investigated cardiac lipotoxicity and cardiolipin alterations in Hadha-mutant mice, contributing to international collaborations on metabolic disease and clinical trial oversight.