Dr. Kelley earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University, and master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. His research interests include: (1) investigating the placebo effect in medical and psychiatric disorders; and (2) understanding how the patient-clinician relationship affects healthcare outcomes in medicine and psychiatry. Dr. Kelley has served as a co-investigator or consultant on 8 National Institutes of Health research grants, and he is the author or co-author of 38 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including articles in The New England Journal of Medicine, The British Medical Journal, and Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.