Brendan J Kelly - Faculty Biosketch

Brendan J Kelly, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Attending Physician, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Director Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Attending Physician, Good Shepherd Penn Partners

Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Director, Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Epidemiology Study collaborative (ARES) Scientific Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania

Department: Medicine

Contact information

731 Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Graduate Group Affiliations

Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Publications

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Education:
AB (History and Science)
Harvard College, Harvard University, 2002.
MD
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 2007.
MSCE (Genetic Epidemiology)
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, 2013.

Post-Graduate Training
Internal Medicine Residency, New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, 2007-2010.
Infectious Diseases Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 2010-2012.
NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellow, Frederic D. Bushman Laboratory, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2012-2014.

Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 2010.
American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, 2012.

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Description of Clinical Expertise

respiratory tract infection; Clostridium difficile infection; HIV

Description of Research Expertise

microbial ecology; next-generation sequencing; respiratory tract microbiome; ventilator-associated infection; antimicrobial resistance; Clostridium difficile infection

Selected Publications

Matthew J. Ziegler, Leigh Cressman, Anne Jaskowiak-Barr, Pam Tolomeo, Brendan J. Kelly: Post-antibiotic risk for recurrent lower respiratory tract infection during prolonged hospitalisation. European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) 2024 (Barcelona, Spain). April 2024.

Montassier E, Kitsios GD, Radder JE, Le Bastard Q, Kelly BJ, Panzer A, Lynch SV, Calfee CS, Dickson RP, Roquilly A.: Robust airway microbiome signatures in acute respiratory failure and hospital-acquired pneumonia. Nat Med Nov 2023.

Ziegler MJ, Huang E, Cowden L, Lautenbach E, Kelly BJ: Spatial distribution of surface microbiota and resistance genes within and between rooms in an intensive care unit. Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) IDWeek 2023 Conference. Boston, MA. October 2023.

Doernberg SB, Arias CA, Altman DR, Babiker A, Boucher HW, Creech CB, Cosgrove SE, Evans SR, Fowler VG, Fritz SA, Hamasaki T, Kelly BJ, Leal SM, Liu C, Lodise TP, Miller LG, Munita JM, Murray BE, Pettigrew MM, Ruffin F, Scheetz MH, Shopsin B, Tran TT, Turner NA, Williams DJ, Zaharoff S, Holland TL; Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group.: Priorities and Progress in Gram-positive Bacterial Infection Research by the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group: A Narrative Review. Clin Infect Dis 77: S295-S304, Oct 2023.

Tanneti NS, Patel AK, Tan LH, Marques AD, Perera RAPM, Sherrill-Mix S, Kelly BJ, Collman RG, Rodino K, Lee C, Bushman FD, Cohen NA, Weiss SR.: Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 variants in primary human nasal cultures indicates Delta as most cytopathic and Omicron as fastest replicating. bioRxiv Aug 2023.

John F. Jachimiak & Brendan J. Kelly: Deciphering the microbiome in patients with C. difficile and inflammatory bowel disease: challenges to analysis. Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2023, Chicago, IL May 2023.

Matthew J. Ziegler, Selamawit Bekele, Sean Loughrey, Elizabeth Huang, Pam Tolomeo, Brendan J. Kelly : Bacterial community similarity between patient and healthcare environment increases during hospitalization. European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) 2023 (Copenhagen, Denmark) April 2023.

Matthew J. Ziegler, Selamawit Bekele, Sean Loughrey, Elizabeth Huang, Pam Tolomeo, Brendan J. Kelly : The effect of antibiotic exposures on colonisation resistance to bacteria resident in the healthcare environment. European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) 2023 (Copenhagen, Denmark) April 2023.

Redding LE, Habing GG, Tu V, Bittinger KL, O'Day J, Pancholi P, Wang SH, Alexander A, Kelly BJ, Weese JS, Stull JW.: Infrequent intrahousehold transmission of Clostridioides difficile between pet owners and their pets. Zoonoses Public Health Feb 2023.

Strelau KM, Feuerstein-Simon R, Naseer N, Lang M, Rix K, Murray EJ, Morris JS, Wiebe DJ, Nelson HCM, Collman RG, Rodino KG, Bushman FD, Kelly BJ, Cannuscio CC: Variations in COVID-19 impacts by social vulnerability in Philadelphia, June 2020-December 2022. medRxiv 2023(2023.01.13.23284488), January 2023.