Deirdre Kelly is an Irish clinician, academic, and author. She is a professor of Paediatric Hepatology at the University of Birmingham and Clinical Lead for National Paediatric Hepatitis C Operational Delivery Network. She chairs the Board of Pension Trustees at the General Medical Council and is a non-executive director at NHS Blood and Transplant. Kelly has authored numerous publications including articles in peer-reviewed journals and has edited numerous books including Atlas of Pediatric Hepatology and Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System in Children. Her research is in the fields of the genetics of neonatal liver disease, management and treatment of pediatric liver diseases, particularly focusing on auto-immune liver disease, biliary atresia, cholestatic liver disease, and long-term outcome of liver transplantation in children. Kelly held the Deputy Editorship of the health journal Liver Transplantation from 2015 to 2020. Education Kelly completed her Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, University Of Dublin in 1971, where she also earned an MB BCh BAO degree in 1973. In 1979, she completed her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Dublin. She then acquired accreditation for General Medicine and Gastroenterology from JCHMT in 1984. In 1990, she was awarded a fellowship at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and in 1995 fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians, London followed by a fellowship at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 1997. Career In 1976 Kelly joined Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital as a Research Registrar and worked there until 1978. From 1978 to 1980 she performed duties as a Medical Registrar at St Vincent's Hospital. She then joined Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer of Clinical Medicine in 1980 and served until 1982. In 1982, she joined Royal Free Hospital as a Wellcome Research Fellow until 1984. She re-trained in paediatrics and worked as a Paediatric Registrar at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hackney and then at the Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormonde Street from 1984 to 1987. She was a lecturer in Child Health at St Bartholomew's Hospital, in 1987. In the same year she joined the University of Nebraska as an assistant professor in Paediatrics and served up until 1988. In 1989 she was appointed as Director of the Liver Unit and Consultant Paediatric Hepatologist at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. She is a professor of Paediatric Hepatology at the University of Birmingham, from 2001.