Dr. Melody T. McCloud is the author of BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS: Your "I've Got This!" Guide to Health, Sex & Phenomenal Living. She is an obstetrician-gynecologist who blazed a trail when she became the 1st Black female to establish an OB-GYN practice in Dekalb County, GA, and only the 3rd to do so in the metro Atlanta, GA area. https://drmccloud.com/bio/
McCloud is the founder and medical director of Atlanta Women's Health Care, PC. She now takes her health messaging to others across the land with books, media appearances, and lectures re: women’s health, sex, relationships, and social issues.
Dr. McCloud is a frequent media consultant, as seen on CNN, NBC Nightly News, Court TV, HLN, Inside Edition, and elsewhere. Her articles & commentary have been printed in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The New England Journal of Medicine, Contemporary Ob-Gyn, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Parade, Essence, and more. She is also a public and keynote speaker, having addressed numerous august organizations, and for corporations, across the country.
A member of the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, The Atlanta Press Club, Leadership Atlanta, and other organizations, she is a recipient of numerous awards, and is a graduate of Boston University, Boston University School of Medicine, and Emory University Hospitals. She is affiliated with Emory University Hospital Midtown.
McCloud also makes presentations about Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler who, in 1864 as the Civil War raged, became the 1st Black female physician in the US, and also wrote a book for women and children's health.
Dr. McCloud is also an award-winning poet, per the Georgia Poetry Society! Her book, 'Melodies of the Heart: Poems of Life & Love' is available as an E-book. She also plans to write her memoir, having never known any of her grandparents, had an absentee father and other family matters with which to attend. But with faith in God and self-determination, overcame all that, and wants to inspire others to overcome tough beginnings.
