Dr. Mary Ellen Kelly has worked in undergraduate neuroscience education for over 10 years at both Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania. Currently Dr. Kelly is a lecturer, neuroscience program coordinator in Penn’s undergraduate Neuroscience Program, and Director of the Neuroscience Research Academy at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kelly received her doctoral degree from Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). After post-doctoral training fellowships at the University of California, San Francisco and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, Dr. Kelly worked for several years as a Stokes Research Fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, studying and researching mechanisms of temporal lobe epilepsy. Dr. Kelly has focused much of her teaching around the neural mechanisms that underlie brain disorders.
