H. William Kelly, Asthma

H. William Kelly, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, is a professor emeritus of pediatrics and pharmacy at the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. His bachelor’s degree in pharmacy is from Washington State University, and he finished his doctorate in pharmacy and his clinical pharmacy residency at the University of Minnesota. He is director of the Albuquerque site of the Childhood Asthma Management Program, a large National Institutes of Health multicenter, longitudinal trial of treatments for asthma in children. Dr. Kelly has published over 80 research articles, reviews, and book chapters on the pharmacotherapy of asthma. He was co-editor of Pediatric Asthma, part of the Lung Biology in Health and Disease Series. He is a member of the National Institutes of Health’s National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Science Base Committee and Expert Panel that authored the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma Update on Selected Topics 2002. He also was a consultant for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and World Health Organization’s Global Initiative for Asthma that published Pocket Guide for Asthma Management and Prevention in Children.