John F. Kelly (professor)
View history John F. Kelly is an American based researcher and professor of addiction medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the Founder and Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Recovery Research Institute, Associate Director of the MGH Center for Addiction Medicine, and Program Director of the MGH Addiction Recovery Management Service. Education. Kelly obtained his doctorate at the University of California, San Diego in Clinical Psychology. Career. In 2006 Kelly was named the Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In 2013, he established The Recovery Research Institute, which  is a part of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry. This institute is credited for its creation of the Addictionary, a glossary of addiction-related terms and a system for stigmatized terminology alerts. Kelly is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Diplomat of the American Board of Professional Psychology, as well as a former President of the APA's Society of Addiction Psychology. He's worked as a consultant for federal and non-governmental agencies in the United States such as the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health  Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the Caron Foundation, as well as international governments and the United Nations. In April 2022, Kelly was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.