WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – David L. Kelly Jr., M.D., professor of neurological surgery at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, received the 2009 Distinguished Practitioner Award during the annual meeting of the Southern Neurosurgical Society, held March 25-28 in Greensboro, Ga.
Kelly, a native of Elkin, joined the School of Medicine faculty in 1965 and was chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery from 1978 to 2000. He has served as president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, the Congress of Neurological Surgery, the North Carolina Neurological Society and the Winston-Salem Neurological Society. He also has served on the American Board of Neurological Surgery and the Residents Review Committee for Neurosurgery.
His honors have included the 1999 Cushing Medal from the American Association of Neurological Surgery, the Distinguished Service Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from which he received his M.D. in 1959, and the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Wake Forest Medical Alumni Association.
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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (www.wfubmc.edu) is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Brenner Children’s Hospital, Wake Forest University Physicians, and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university’s School of Medicine and Piedmont Triad Research Park. The system comprises 1,056 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and has been ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report since 1993. Wake Forest Baptist is ranked 32nd in the nation by America’s Top Doctors for the number of its doctors considered best by their peers. The institution ranks in the top third in funding by the National Institutes of Health and fourth in the Southeast in revenues from its licensed intellectual property.