Associate Professor of Medicine
Emory University
Disclosure(s): Gilead: Grant/Research Support; Humanigen: Grant/Research Support; Moderna: Grant/Research Support; Novavax: Grant/Research Support; ViiV: Grant/Research Support
Dr. Kelley is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases with a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health. She graduated from Emory University with her MD/MPH degree and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco and Infectious Diseases fellowship at Emory University. Dr. Kelley has a multi-disciplinary background and previous clinical and research experience in HIV medicine, HIV epidemiology and clinical outcomes research, and laboratory-based HIV research. She sees outpatients at the Grady Ponce de Leon Center HIV clinic and inpatients on the Infectious Diseases consult service and Special Immunology Service at Grady Memorial Hospital. The current focus of her research is on biomedical HIV prevention interventions including pre and post-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP and PEP) and HIV vaccines. Dr. Kelley conducts translational immunology studies of HIV susceptibility in men who have sex with men and transgender women to better understand the rectal mucosal immune environment and its influence on HIV transmission. Dr Kelley is an investigator for the HVTN, the HPTN, the CoVPN and also collaborates closely with colleagues in the School of Public Health on several PrEP implementation projects. During the COVID pandemic, she led clinical trials for treatment and prevention of SARS-CoV2 infection.