Kelly received her Bachelors in Nursing from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1999.  As an RN, Kelly specialized in both in-patient psychiatric nursing and medical-surgical nursing.

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Kelly returned to school to obtain her Master’s Degree in 2004. She graduated from University of South Alabama in 2006 as a Family Nurse Practitioner and became nationally board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2007.

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Kelly has been providing Nurse Practitioner services since that time. Her Nurse Practitioner experiences include Primary Care for an Employee Health Clinic, Primary Care for a Family Practice Clinic with the Military, and Primary Care in Women’s Health. These experiences have given her a wide range of medical knowledge and experience in her field of Family Practice. As a new team member at the Mississippi Orhtopaedic Institute, Kelly now looks forward to servicing the Orthopedic needs of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.