MATTHEW KELLY, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and Global Health

Dr. Kelly is a physician-scientist trained in pediatric infectious diseases, global health, and human microbial ecology. He received his MD degree at Harvard Medical School and his MPH degree at the Harvard School of Public Health before completing pediatrics residency training at the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics. He was a David N. Pincus Pediatric Global Health Fellow in Gaborone, Botswana through the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, during which he started a research program focused on childhood respiratory infections. Finally, he completed pediatric infectious diseases training at Duke University with a focus on the role of the microbiome in colonization resistance to childhood pathogens. Dr. Kelly is now a faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University and a faculty member in the Duke Microbiome Center. His long-term career goal is to develop rationally-designed probiotics for the prevention of respiratory infections among children.

matthew.kelly@duke.edu