 While on the faculty at the University of Chicago , Kelsey was awarded her M.D. during 1950 . She supplemented her teaching with work as an editorial associate for the American Medical Association Journal for two years . Kelsey left the University of Chicago in 1954 , decided to take a position teaching pharmacology at the University of South Dakota , and moved with her husband and two daughters to Vermillion , South Dakota , where she taught until 1957 . 
