{"entity":{"id":"melissa-taylor","kind":"person","name":"Melissa Taylor","aka":["Melissa Anne Taylor","Melissa A. Taylor"],"tldr":"Breast medical oncologist at UCSF who cares for people with breast cancer at every stage, and researches treatment side effects, health care disparities and access to clinical trials.","summary":"Melissa Anne Taylor, MD, is a medical oncologist at UCSF who cares for patients with breast cancer across all stages of diagnosis and treatment; UCSF Health lists her specialty as medical oncology (breast) and a clinic at the UCSF-John Muir Health Cancer Center in Berkeley. Her research focuses especially on treatment side effects, health care disparities and expanding access to clinical trials. She earned her medical degree and a master's in public health at Emory University, where she also completed residencies in internal medicine and in public health and general preventive medicine, and completed a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at Yale School of Medicine. She is board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.","asOf":"2026-10-29","links":[{"label":"UCSF Health: Melissa Taylor, MD","url":"https://www.ucsfhealth.org/providers/melissa-taylor"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-cancer"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["ucsf"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Breast medical oncologist, UCSF","institutionId":"ucsf","specialisms":["Breast cancer","Treatment side effects","Health care disparities","Access to clinical trials"],"profiles":[{"label":"UCSF Health profile","url":"https://www.ucsfhealth.org/providers/melissa-taylor"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Taylor%20MA%5BAuthor%5D%20AND%20breast"}],"papers":[]},"route":"/people/melissa-taylor/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"}],"institution":[{"id":"ucsf","kind":"institution","name":"UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/ucsf/"}]}}