John J. Kelly Jr. ’65

John J. Kelly Jr. ’65, of East Orleans, Mass.; Aug. 18. He graduated from Yale School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Yale–New Haven Medical Center before serving in the United States Public Health Service. As a physician in the USPHS, he was stationed at the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Native American Reservation and provided medical care to Assiniboine and Sioux tribes for two years. In 1973, he was accepted into the Mayo Clinic neurology residency program and, upon completion, continued at Mayo with a fellowship in clinical and electrodiagnostic neurophysiology, subsequently appointed to the faculty as assistant professor of neurology. In 1981, he became associate professor of neurology and director of the electromyography lab at Tufts New England Medical Center. He became the chair of neurology at George Washington University Medical Center in 1991 and, during his tenure, founded the GWU Neurosciences Institute, the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Clinic, and the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center. He was chief of the department of neurology and deputy director of Cooper Neurological Institute (N.J.) in 2011. There he founded the Neurological Institute and developed their neuromuscular and stroke programs. He retired from GWUMC as professor emeritus in 2016. His educational legacy continues after his death as he chose to participate in the brain tissue donation program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Patricia; two daughters and sons-in-law; five grandchildren; two sisters and brothers-in-law; a brother and sister-in-law; and many nieces and nephews.