Rice University, Ph.D. 2001

Current Appointments:

Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington.

Scholar in the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle Children's Hospital.

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities, Department of Philosophy, and the Program on Values in Society.

On curriculum committee and faculty for the Global Health Pathway for the UW Pediatric Residency Program.

Team investigator and co-chair of the Ethics & Social Justice Working Group for the Global Alliance for the Prevention of Prematurity and Stillbirth, an initiative of Seattle Children's and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. http://www.gappsseattle.org/

Ethics consultant for Seattle Children's Hospital, and Research Ethics Consultant for University Washington Institute for Translational Sciences.

Previous appointments:
Baylor College of Medicine and University of Alabama-Birmingham (Philosophy and Sparkman Center for Global Health).

Grants & Funding:
National Institutes for Health, Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) P.I. Mary Disis, MD. UW. Role: Member of Regulatory and Bioethics Core.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (Craig Rubens PI)

Private Donor, Seattle Children's Hospital Foundation, P.I. M. Kelley; Co-P.I. Alice Hazemba. "The Burden of HIV/AIDS in the Next Generation: Improving Measures of Vulnerability and Capacities in Orphans and Street Children" Lusaka, Zambia, 2008-2009.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fogarty Framework in Global Health: Grant awarded for: 2005-2007 UAB. P.I. John Ehiri, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Role: Consultant, Executive Committee Member.

National Institutes for Health, CIPRA, 2005-2006: Research Ethics Education P.I. Alexander Chernov, MD. Research Ethics training for Tomsk Regional Center for AIDS and Infectious Diseases. Tomsk, Siberia, Russian Federation.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Southeast Regional Center for Emerging Infections and Biodefense (SERCEB): 2004-2006, PI: Bart Haynes, MD, Duke University, Fred Sparling, MD UNC Chapel Hill. Role: Consultant. Member of the Policy, Ethics, and Law Core (PEL)


Links:
Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics
Physicians for Human Rights
International Association of Bioethics
PATH
Partners in Health
Room to Read

Research Areas:

Pediatric Bioethics and Global Health

International & Pediatric Research Ethics

Moral Philosophy

Select Publications:

Kelley M. "Aiming Higher: Moral Obligations to Children without Families", for Bearing and Rearing Children, Cape Town, South Africa, 2008.

H. Tabor, Kelley M, "Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing with Children", The American Journal of Bioethics, in press, 2009. 

Fletcher F, Ndeble P, and Kelley M, Infant Feeding and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Lies Beneath the Dilemma. Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2008;29(5):307-30.

Patel R, Hazemba A, Kelley M. The Burden of HIV in the Next Generation: A Report on Orphans and Street Children in Lusaka, Zambia, 2008.

Kelley, M., Fryer-Edwards K, Fullerton SM, Gallagher T, Wilfond B, "Sharing Data and Experience: Using the CTSA "Moral Community" to Improve Research Ethics Consultation", in press, American Journal of Bioethics, 2008.

Kelley M and Tilden SJ, Ethical Oversight of Human Subjects Research in Emerging Infections and Biodefense Research. Houston Journal of Law and Health Policy, vol. 8, no. 1 (Fall 2007).

Kelley M. "Casuistry Naturalized," in Cherry, Iltis, eds., Pluralistic Casuistry: Moral Arguments, Economic Realities, and Political Theory (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2007).

Kelley M and Miller S. "Clinical Ethics," Lange Q&A: USMLE Step 3, Fifth Edition by Donald A. Briscoe, 2007.

Kelley M, Miller SM, Solovieva SA, Palliative Care and HIV/TB: The Experience in Siberia. [trans. Russian] Bulletin of Siberian Medicine, no. 5, 2006: 151-157.

Kelley M, "Infectious Disease Research and Dual-Use Risk," American Medical Association: Virtual Mentor, vol. 8 (April 2006), pp. 230-234. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/16103.html

Kelley M, "Limits On Patient Responsibility", Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 30, no. 2 (April 2005), pp. 189-206.

Kelley M, "Professional Purpose and the Role of Moral Judgment: Teaching Across the Healthcare Professions," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 4 (2002): pp. 475-491.

Kelley M, "Contractarianism and Bioethics," Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition (New York: MacMillan Press, 2004).