Amanda E. Jacobson-Kelly, MD

Amanda Jacobson-Kelly, MD, MSc, iis an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital/The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Jacobson-Kelly worked as a Staff Physician at University of Virginia Elson Student Health Center and a Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital before moving to Nationwide Children’s in 2015.

Dr. Jacobson-Kelly completed her Masters of Medical Science from The Ohio State University while completing her fellowship in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Nationwide Children’s. She earned her Doctor of Medicine from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.

Dr. Jacobson-Kelly’s clinical and research interests include histiocytic disorders, autoimmune blood disorders, inherited bone marrow failure syndromes, and nutritional hematology. Dr. Jacobson-Kelly is the director of the Iron Disorders Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Jacobson-Kelly was awarded the 2018 Nationwide Children’s Fellow Research Award has won multiple American Society of Hematology Abstract Achievement awards. She also was awarded the 2021 Hematology/Oncology/BMT Faculty Teacher of the Year.

Dr. Jacobson-Kelly is involved in a variety of professional societies including the North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium, North American Immuno-Hematology Clinical Education and Research Consortium, Hemostasis Thrombosis Research Society, American Society of Hematology, American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children’s Oncology Group, American Board of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.