About Our Practice
Reed Family Medicine is a direct primary care practice which means that we work directly for you for an affordable monthly fee. We fill a role that is missing in medicine today – relationship based care with continuity of seeing the same physician every time.
Meet Dr. Melissa Reed
Dr. Melissa Reed grew up as a Tar Heel in Chapel Hill, NC. She was raised bilingual by her Puerto Rican mother and summer months were spent living with extended family in Puerto Rico. After high school, Dr. Reed moved a few miles up the road from home to attend college at the UNC-Chapel Hill. While at UNC, she took advantage of the study abroad programs and spent semesters in both Seville, Spain and Florence, Italy.
She graduated with a degree in Public Health-Nutrition, and then decided to move to the West Coast to Oregon to work as a WIC (Women, Infants and Children) nutritionist at a migrant health clinic in Woodburn, Oregon. A year later she got accepted to medical school at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. During her 4 years in medical school, she balanced out her medical education by learning to ski on Mount Hood, Oregon and beating her personal record in the Portland Marathon. Upon obtaining her medical degree, Dr. Reed started a Pediatrics residency at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, but realized she missed the variety of patients and ages so after her intern year decided to switch to specializing in Family Medicine. She moved back home to Chapel Hill and worked on a Masters in Public Health in Maternal and Child Health while reapplying to residency. After finishing her degree, she started residency at UNC Family Medicine. During her three years of residency, she also married and had her first daughter.
Since graduating from residency, Dr. Reed has worked in Family Medicine clinics in Raleigh. After spending 10 years fighting to spend more quality time with her patients in clinic, she decided to follow her heart and open her own clinic. Direct Primary Care allows her to cultivate the patient/physician relationship that first drew her to Family Medicine in the first place.
In the meantime, her family grew and she is now the proud mother of 4 beautiful children, 2 girls and 2 boys. While she loves spending time with her family, she also tries to find time for her hobbies, which include gardening, baking, running, reading, traveling, knitting and sewing.
Her special interests in medicine include women’s health, LGBTQ health, and Latino health, as well as family planning, dermatology, mental health, substance abuse, and preventative health including nutrition and integrative health.
Better Health Care is Our Mission