Primary care physician Melissa Love, MD, who practices at Ochsner Health Center – Bluebonnet South, has been named Young Alumna of the Year for 2020 by the Mississippi College Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
A 2002 summa cum laude graduate of Mississippi College, Love earned a degree in chemistry. As a student, she also served as president of the school chapter of the American Chemical Society, one of the world’s largest scientific organizations, chartered by Congress in 1876.
Love earned a medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2006 and completed a residency at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in North Carolina. She joined Ochsner Baton Rouge in 2009 and was named Ochsner Health System’s New Physician of the Year.