After working with the Cherokees in Oklahoma, as an officer in the Indian Health Service, Dr. Kelly practiced at the Phoenix Indian Service Hospital for Navajo and other western Native Americans. Dr. Kelly's next position was with Our Lady of Guadalupe Neighborhood Health Clinic near San Francisco. After marrying, he joined a private  practice in the Windham/Mansfield area of Eastern Connecticut to be closer to family. He continues to practice general pediatrics, newborn and adolescent medicine, including asthma and allergy management, attention deficit disorder and school-related issues in a group practice with  Drs. Elliott, Gorin and Willenborg.

Dr. Kelly has served as a member on many Windham Hospital committees (by laws, utilization review, medical executive), as well as serving as Chief of Pediatrics. He has testified twice before the Connecticut State Legislature for the Connecticut Academy of Pediatrics and regularly makes presentations to a variety of community organizations — school parent associations, WTIC radio, WIC (women, infants and children) program and groups of prenatal parents. Annually he organizes educational programs for school nurses.  He enjoys being the medical advisor for local school systems (Ashford, Lebanon, Windham, Mansfield, Region 19 high school). As Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center (Farmington), he mentors UConn medical students, providing medical care to those who are served by the Coventry Soup Kitchen in Willimantic.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2006, he volunteered with the Red Cross in New Orleans, home of Tulane University, where he attended medical school, and where his daughter is a medical student. In 1998 he received the American Academy of Pediatrics Citation for his publication on Medicaid reimbursement.

Dr. Kelly enjoys biking, running (including two marathons, the Chatham Race on Cape Cod and Manchester, CT’s annual Thanksgiving Day race) and vegetable gardening and plays trombone with the Woodstock Coronet Band.

He and his wife have two daughters who were educated in our local school systems. One has entered medical school, and his younger daughter is completing her undergraduate English literature and art history studies.

• Undergraduate Degree: BA in history, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
• Medical School: Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Internship Training:  St. Elizabeth’s Hospital of Boston, Massachusetts
• Residency: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
  Entry into Practice: 1978
• Board Certification: Pediatrics FAAP
• Diplomat American Board of Pediatrics, Fellow American Academy of Pediatrics