| Susan J. Kelley, Ph.D. | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | psychology, child abuse, nursing |
| Work Institution: | Georgia State University |
| Alma Mater: | Boston College Boston University |
| Known For: | Fells Acres day care sexual abuse trial |
| Prizes: | ICSA's John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award |
Susan J. Kelley is the former Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Georgia State University. She is also currently a professor of Nursing and the Director of the National Center on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, and founder and director of Project Healthy Grandparents, at Georgia State University.[1]
Kelley received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Boston University, 1977, followed by a Master of Science in Nursing in 1982. She was awarded a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Boston College in 1988.
Prior to her current positions, Kelley had previously served as chairperson and Professor, Department of Maternal-Child Health Nursing at Boston College. She was also the Director of Nursing education at Massachusetts Emergency Medical Services and a pediatric nurse at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, and Boston City Hospital.[2] She has also served as a guest lecturer at George Mason University.[3]
In 2000, Kelley served on the Task Force for International Child Health Nursing Alliance.[4] She is a reviewer for the academic journal Nursing Research, as part of their peer review process.[5]
Kelley has specialized in the field of child abuse, since 1979 and has appeared as a featured expert on child abuse on national programs including the Today Show, NBC Evening News and CBS Morning News.
As a pediatric nurse in the 1980s, Kelley interviewed many of the children involved in the Fells Acres day care sexual abuse trial in Malden, Massachusetts.[6] Kelley's interview techniques in that case were later criticized[6] —they were called “improper” and “biased” by a Massachusetts appellate judge,[7] after video tapes of her questioning of the children were played in court during the appeal of one of the defendants.[8] [9]