{"id":4230,"date":"2014-10-28T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2014-10-24T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:09:12","slug":"e-lynne-kelley-93-safety-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2014\/e-lynne-kelley-93-safety-first\/","title":{"rendered":"E. Lynne Kelley \u201993: Safety First"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lauren Ware<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lynne Kelley has a passion for safety\u2014the safety of patients and health care workers. That passion has led her around the world and from academia to the private sector. Today, she works for the medical technology company Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) as the worldwide vice president of medical affairs for medical surgical systems. That means that she collaborates with both clinicians and regulatory agencies around the world and manages a team of healthcare professionals who develop and commercialize medical products that are sold globally.<\/p>\n

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E. Lynne Kelley, MD \u201993<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She also gives back to her alma mater, in part by lending her expertise to Geisel\u2019s Center for Health Equity as a member of its board of advisors. \u201cI have visited hospitals and clinics in many other parts of the world and see the challenges that clinicians face in delivering care,\u201d says Kelley. \u201cI\u2019m honored to be able to use both the clinical practice skills and my business experience to help in such an important effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelley began her career as a vascular surgeon, training at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Mass General, and in Paris, France, on a Marco Polo Fellowship. While teaching at Yale, she discovered she had a strong interest in clinical trial development. So she took a two-year sabbatical to explore working in a corporate environment at Boston Scientific. \u201cIt was a game-changer in terms of my career path,\u201d says Kelley. \u201cI feel really lucky that I ended up at Boston Scientific. They\u2019re highly ethical and they were doing really scientific, cutting-edge work.\u201d<\/p>\n

She stayed on at Boston Scientific, designing protocols, working with the FDA, and taking medical device products from clinical trial design to market approval. \u201cI really enjoyed the international aspect of it, working with vascular surgeons and cardiologists around the world,\u201d she says. \u201cI worked with a great team of really smart people and benefited from very strong mentorship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelley\u2019s current work with BD involves leading a global team focused on increasing patient and healthcare provider safety, reducing medication errors, and drug waste.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy job is to provide medical direction to BD to ensure that patient safety is always the first thing we\u2019re thinking about,\u201d she says. Fortunately, that\u2019s a mindset that comes naturally to Kelley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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