Dr. Melissa Mondala, MD, MHA, MS, DipABLM
Direct Primary Care and Lifestyle
Medicine and Primary Care Psychiatry
Dr. Melissa Mondala is a triple specialist of family medicine, lifestyle medicine, and primary care psychiatry. She is one of the first and youngest nationally recognized lifestyle medicine fellows and is a strong community health advocate. She serves as faculty at Loma Linda University Preventive/Lifestyle Medicine Department, which is one of the blue zones for longevity. She currently sits on the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Board of Directors and is a Diplomate of Lifestyle Medicine. She planted seeds of change in the community through lecturing at local medical school, veg fest, and virtual summits.
She has devoted decades of volunteer work in underserved communities in California and internationally. She has been featured in popular media, such as Forbes, Local Newsoutlets, and Social Media. She prioritizes lifestyle modifications to optimize health. Her passion is educating and empowering healthy living and cooking.
She is an uniquely engaging motivational speaker that brings evidence based methods to combat chronic disease and uplifts potential barriers through self-empowerment and self-compassion.
- Diplomate and Specialist, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
- Board Certified of Family Medicine
- Board Certified of Lifestyle Medicine
- Fellowship
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Primary Care Psychiatry 2019-2020
- Fellowship
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA
Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine 2018-2019
- Residency
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA
Family Medicine 2015-2018
- Medical School
Chicago Medical School
North Chicago, IL
Doctorate of Medicine 2015
- Graduate School
Rosalind Franklin University
North Chicago, IL
Masters in Healthcare Administration 2013
Masters in Biomedical Sciences 2011
- English
- Tagalog
- Spanish
Dr. Melissa Mondala is an Integrative Family Physician and Mental Health Expert
Dr. Melissa understands empathizes with her patients and understands how important it is to heal the body with using food as medicine as a foundation. Her goal is to find the root cause of her patients symptoms. She is a lifestyle medicine specialist and was a board member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She has done a psychiatry fellowship and has taken courses in integrative psychiatry. When she is not in seeing patients, she loves to cook and teach others how to use Food as Medicine. Her goal is to get her patients to look and feel before their symptoms started.
get access to
Simple, Personalized Lifestyle Direct Primary Care
Dr. Mondala uses the direct primary care model because it returns Health and Accessibility to the heart of medicine. It removes confusion and hidden fees that happen with your insurance carrier, helps you avoid excess paperwork, and eliminates extremely short, rushed appointments.
Direct primary care also allows her to take the time to talk through your concerns during each appointment in a calm, stress-free environment.
- Unlimited office visits
- Relaxed, extended appointments
- Same-day or next-day appointment scheduling
- Extended access through phone, email, text, and video chat
- Minimal or no wait times
The results are
real and last!
Dr. Melissa Mondala is a holistic plant-based physician, nutritional & wellness expert, health coach, mental health advocate, and recipe inventor!
She has been featured in popular media, such as Forbes, Local News outlets, and Social Media. She helps clients improve their lifestyle to optimize their health to achieve their goals and develop sustainable habits to live a healthy and balanced life.
