Biography
Dr. Melissa Pastoressa was born and raised in NY. She was accepted into a seven year BS/MD program at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at the City College of New York and completed medical school at the Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, OH. She went on to complete her general surgery residency at Summa Health in Akron, OH and graduated in 2021. She is currently a Bariatric/MIS fellow at The Chicago Institute of Advanced Surgery.