Whitley Kelley MD

Whitley Kelley is the Certified Genetic Counselor at HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Hustleville, Alabama, United States. Kelley’s job is to translate some of the most complex technical achievements of the 21st century into a language that anyone can understand. She has a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and was considering becoming a bench scientist before a friend suggested she look into genetic counseling. After some research, she contacted the director of UAB’s master’s program and arranged to shadow some counselors. Kelley is part of an exciting research collaboration between researchers and clinicians in the UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine. The project, Genomic Diagnoses for Children with Developmental Delay, is studying the benefits of using advanced genomic sequencing techniques to help clinicians and families diagnose rare and puzzling conditions. The goal is to analyze some 450 families over four years.