Michelle Golla, MD, MPH

Fairfield Medical Center

Michelle Golla, MD, MPH, is a board-certified pediatric physician with a focus on underserved populations. She earned her undergraduate degree in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and went on to receive her medical degree from The Ohio State University in 2010. She also completed her Masters of Public Health with a research focus on the relationship and prevalence of acute infectious diseases and chronic metabolic diseases in immigrant Ethiopian populations. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio where she received the distinguished Miner W. Seymour Resident Award for outstanding community pediatrics practice. As an attending physician, she has been instrumental in improving the health care of the underserved community in Central Ohio through patient care and education for populations heavily impacted by the addiction crisis. She cares for many infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome and supports mothers of young children as they work through rehabilitation. She also mentors pediatric residents in her clinical and hospital-based practices. In addition to her local clinical work, she travels internationally to Haiti or Ethiopia yearly to serve on collaborative longitudinal missions trips sharing information and resources with global medical teams to encourage medical growth in those communities. She is also the founder of a wellness blog, MomDocDiva, that celebrates motherhood across cultures and provides evidence based and well curated information on pediatric and women’s health, self-care and work-life balance. She is married to her supportive and loving husband and is the mother of three sweet boys and counts their healthy development and giving spirits as her biggest accomplishment thus far.

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