Desmond Kelly, MD
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Kelly is Vice Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Pediatrics of the Greenville
Health System Children’s Hospital in Greenville South Carolina. He is a Professor of Clinical
Pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and directs the
subspecialty fellowship program in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics.
After graduating from the University of Cape Town Medical School in South Africa, he worked in
training positions in Pediatrics and Psychiatry in London. His U.S. residency in Pediatrics was at
the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield followed by DevelopmentalBehavioral Pediatrics fellowship training at the University of Maryland and the University of
North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. He returned to the faculty at Southern Illinois
University for 7 years before joining The Children’s Hospital in Greenville in 1995. He is a PastPresident of the Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Kelly served on the
executive committee of the Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics of the
American Academy of Pediatrics and was a member of the AAP’s national committee on
Continuing Medical Education. He was also a member of the Sub-Board of DevelopmentalBehavioral Pediatrics of the American Board of Pediatrics for 7 years, chairing the Credentials
Committee.
Dr. Kelly’s research and publication has been primarily in the areas of hearing impairment and
learning and attention problems. More recently he has focused on early identification of children
with developmental problems, improved linkage to services, and multidisciplinary systems of
health care delivery.