Dr. Kelly performs translational and clinical research encompassing the discovery and the development of new targeted and immunotherapeutic approaches in the prevention and treatment of gastroesophageal cancer and lung cancer and he is the International principal investigator on a number of global phase II/III clinical trials in these disease areas. In addition he is leading efforts nationally and internationally to design quality metrics for solid tumors and implementing value-based algorithms to help bend the cost curve in the United States. At the Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center he also helps to co-lead the Innovative Clinical Trials Center which investigates novel therapeutics across a range of tumor types. He serves as the co-chair of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) taskforce working to improve the quality of care received by lung cancer patients worldwide. He is an active member of ASCO and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology group. He is a founding member of the International Quality Oncology Taskforce in ASCO and serves on the ASCO measures taskforce, the clinical practice committee and the lung cancer quality taskforce. He has authored and co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications, abstracts and book chapters, and contributed his work to many prominent healthcare journals.