University of Minnesota, 1983 

2016 Accomplishments

Thomas H. Kelly, PhD, is the Robert Straus Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Behavioral Science in the College of Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Nursing, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Drug Abuse Research. He serves as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Nursing and Director of Research Education, Training and Career Development for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science.  During the previous year, he served in multiple educational roles, including mentoring and teaching in medical and graduate courses and supporting the certificate, MS and PhD programs in Clinical and Translational Science.  His service activities at the Department level include vice-chair and participation on the admissions and curriculum committees.  Local service includes participation on the College of Medicine Regional Campus Expansion Joint Implementation Committee, COM Faculty Senate and the Undergraduate Research Oversight Committee.  He also reviews grant applications on a regular basis for the IRB and the CCTS.  Nationally, his service activities include peer review for NIH and multiple journals. Mentoring activities include support of the TL and KL scholars in the CCTS and oversight of 4 PhD students.  Dr. Kelly is a clinical behavioral pharmacologist examining drug-behavior interactions and assessing bio-behavioral factors associated with individual differences in drug abuse vulnerability. His current research combines clinical pharmacological and neuroimaging methodologies to examine neurobiologically-based personality dimensions on vulnerability to drug abuse.  He is currently the PI of one project and serves as the Scientific Director of the NIDA-funded Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation (CDART), is multi-PI of the KL2 Career Development Program for the NCATS-funded CCTS, is co-I on UL1 CCTS and R01 NIDA grants and is a faculty mentor on three institutional training grants. During the past year he contributed to 5 published peer-reviewed manuscripts (3 others in press), 2 book chapters, and multiple presentations and grant applications.