Dr. Melissa Kelley joined the Department of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology in 2018 and became Division Chair in October 2026.
She completed medical school and Internal Medicine training at Memorial University of Newfoundland before moving to Kingston, where she completed her Gastroenterology fellowship at Queen’s University. She then completed a fellowship in Clinical Hepatology in Toronto.
Dr. Kelley holds an MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care from the University of Oxford and, in 2025, completed the Global Executive MBA in Healthcare and the Life Sciences at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.