William Nimmons Kelley

William N. Kelley, M.D. is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Previously he was the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Health System, and Dean of the School of Medicine (1993-2000). He was the John G. Searle Professor and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1975 to 1989. Prior to 1975, he was Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheumatic and Genetic Diseases at Duke University Medical Center. He has a long history of involvement in experimental models of gene therapy. Kelley served as the President of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American College of Rheumatology. He has also served as a Trustee of The Merck Company Foundation, a Trustee at Emory University and the Emory Health Care System, and a board member of Merck & Co. and Beckman Coulter Inc. Dr. Kelley is a Member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Philosophical Society. Kelley received the B.A. degree (1959) from Emory University and the M.D. (1963) from Emory University School of Medicine.