Clinical Pathology Resident (PGY1)
University of California, San Francisco
Emily Kelly MD, MSc, is a first-year resident in clinical pathology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her BA in Human Biology at Stanford University, MSc in the Control of Infectious Diseases at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and MD at UCSF. Prior to pursuing medicine, she completed a Fulbright research grant on antibiotic drug discovery in India and was a Fellow in the California Epidemiologic Investigation Service (Cal-EIS) through the California Departmet of Public Health (CDPH). During medical school, she worked for Placer County as a Public Health Epidemiologist managing hospital operation statistics and investigating SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in rural Northern California and as an extern in the CDPH Veterinary Public Health Section, during which she completed this research on Capnocytophaga spp. infection. Her driving interest is neglected infectious disease, and her research and advocacy work have focused on taeniasis/cysticercosis, strongyloidiasis, and Chagas disease. She hopes to specialize in microbiology and work towards health equity through research advancing diagnostics for neglected infectious diseases.
Twitter: @EmiKellyMD