University of Illinois (B.S., 1978) American Heart Association Basic Science Prize (2009) Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Daniel P. Kelly (born 1955) is Director of the Penn[1][2] and CHOP[3][4] Cardiovascular Institutes (CVI) and the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Rachel Ash Presidential Professor at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

In 2008, Kelly assumed the role of founding Scientific Director for the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute[7] site in Orlando, Florida.

In 2022, Kelly also assumed the position of founding Director of a new CVI at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) with the mission of addressing unmet needs in cardiovascular health and disease throughout the lifespan.

Kelly’s [8][9] research interests stem from an early fascination with rare inborn errors in mitochondrial metabolism in children which cause sudden death and heart failure.

He defined the genetic basis for a common inborn error in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation, work that led to the development of practical screening tests to detect risk for sudden death in newborns.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Launches Research Institute Dedicated to Advancing the Care of Pediatric Cardiovascular Diseases - Penn Medicine 4.