Associate Professor
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Jeannie Kelly, MD, MS is an associate professor and interim chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine & Ultrasound at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Kelly completed her undergraduate at Duke University, where she graduated with Distinction. She went on to complete her medical degree at Columbia University. Both residency and fellowship training were at Tufts Medical Center, where she also received a Master’s degree in Clinical and Translational Science. She currently serves as the medical director of Washington University’s perinatal substance use disorder service (the Clinic for Acceptance, Recovery, and Empowerment, ie CARE in Pregnancy). She is a member of the SMFM Practice Advisory Board and the SMFM Committee for Reproductive Health, was recently selected as a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader (2024), and received the AAOGF/AGOS Travel Award (2024), the Washington University Dean’s Impact Award (2023), and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Early Career Award (2024). Dr. Kelly’s interests center around researching, implementing, and leading through critical challenges facing the field of obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine. She currently serves as PI of three NIH grants: “OPIOID BPP,” an NICHD R01 focused on placental and fetal brain development in opioid-exposed pregnancies, “Patch BRIDGE,” a NIDA R21 randomized trial testing a transdermal buprenorphine patch to improve treatment success of maternal opioid use disorder, and “SUPPORT-MOM,” a NIDA R61 to implement Contingency Management, a powerful behavioral strategy for substance use disorders, and study its interplay with social determinants of health and maternal-infant outcomes.
