Melissa Altman-Traub is an Associate Professor of Allied Health at the Community College of Philadelphia. She has been a part-time academic adviser, led several faculty learning communities, and completed the CCP Leadership Institute. She is an Outreach Specialist for a Title III education grant and works collaboratively with faculty and staff to develop new ways to improve student success and retention, and recently completed a fellowship from the CCP Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning on professional development for HyFlex teaching. Melissa has also been an adjunct faculty member at LaSalle University.

Her background includes clinical nutrition in hospitals, long-term care facilities, dialysis centers, nutrition support, and outpatient nutrition counseling.

For the Nutrition Educators of Health Professionals Dietetic Practice group, she worked with the chair to write a successful diversity mini-grant proposal and organize an online diversity symposium in September of 2022. Melissa serves as a mentor for the Diversity in Dietetics and RD mentoring programs. She also has a food blog and has expertise with plant-based diets and Jewish cuisine.

Melissa holds a B.S. in Nutrition from Pennsylvania State University, completed a dietetic internship at the University of Cincinnati Hospital, an M.S. in Health Education at Arcadia University, and completed additional coursework in Health Studies at Temple University.