Stanley Elphinstone Kerr (March 30, 1894 – December 14, 1976) was an American humanitarian, clinical biochemist and educator.
[3] A clinical biochemist at Walter Reed Hospital, he left the United States in 1919 to serve as a volunteer for Near East Relief, an American charity created to help the Armenians.
[4] He worked as a medical and sanitary officer who cared for the survivors of the march of refugees through the desert.
In 1921 Kerr and Elsa Reckman joined the staff of a Near East Relief orphanage for Armenian children at Nahr Ibrahim, Lebanon.
Elsa Kerr also served on the AUB faculty as Dean of Women students.