Deirdre Kelly (academic)

Deirdre Kelly
Born
India
NationalityIrish
Occupation(s)Clinician, academic and author
AwardsThe Lunar Medal, Lunar Society
Commander of the British Empire, Government of the United Kingdom
Academic background
EducationBA
MB BCh BAO
MD
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Academic work
InstitutionsBirmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
University of Birmingham
General Medical Council
NHS England
NHS Blood and Transplant

Deirdre Anne Kelly CBE DL is an Irish clinician, academic, and author. She is Professor of Paediatric Hepatology at the University of Birmingham and Clinical Lead for National Paediatric Hepatitis C Operational Delivery Network. She chairs the Board of Pension Trustees at the General Medical Council and is a non-executive director at NHS Blood and Transplant.

Kelly has edited books including Atlas of Pediatric Hepatology and Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System in Children. Her research is focused in the fields of the genetics of neonatal liver disease, management and treatment of pediatric liver diseases, particularly focusing on auto-immune liver disease, biliary atresia, cholestatic liver disease, and long-term outcome of liver transplantation in children.

Kelly held the Deputy Editorship of the health journal Liver Transplantation from 2015 to 2020.