Dr. Melissa Walsh is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist from NYC where she completed residency training and practiced for over 10 years in public health institutions as a frontline provider and assistant clinical professor at Montefiore Medical Center and New York University – NYC H+H Bellevue and Gouverneur Health. During her time at the nation’s largest municipal healthcare system, she led several women’s health patient education initiatives and was awarded one of 25 NYC Health + Hospital’s Doctor of the Year honors in 2018. Dr. Walsh entered the Web3 space in 2021, and earned her “Spottie WiFey” nickname while supporting her husband, Spottie WiFi, a notable Web3 musician. As part of the DeSci community, she is a vocal advocate for the integration of blockchain technology to equitably transform the landscape of medicine and science and refocus medical care on the patient-clinician team and the trust needed for that relationship. Most recently, she has presented on the applications of blockchain in healthcare and maternal health outcomes at the International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association Global Symposium at Penn Medicine. She has also spoken on DeSci panels at NFT London and Miami’s NFT Basel conferences, Metaverse Miami and Web3Summits. Dr. Walsh is a core team member and physician contributor with AthenaDAO, a DeSci community of researchers, funders, & advocates working to advance women’s health research, education, and funding. She is a member of the Humanitarian Physicians Empowerment Community (HPEC), a decentralized network leveraging blockchain technology to authenticate licensing, credentials, and referrals for medical professionals. Additionally, she is a founding member of the American Medical Extended Reality Association (AMXRA).