Melissa Rizzolo, LCSW-C, APHSW-C

Melissa Rizzolo is a Lead Clinical Social Worker with the Palliative Medicine Service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She received her BSW from Hood College in 2010 and her MSW from the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 2011. Melissa is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical and holds the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification. Melissa began her social work career in care management, working in the medical intensive care and medical oncology units. Prior to beginning at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Melissa worked in hospice care and has previous experience providing inpatient palliative medicine consults at a community hospital in Baltimore. Her clinical interests including medical ethics, Advance Care Planning and grief and loss.