Clare Kelly, PhD is a Leon Levy Research Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, and Assistant Director of the Phyllis Green and Randolph Cōwen Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience at the NYU Child Study Center.

Dr. Kelly received her BA in psychology from the University of Dublin, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in 2002. In 2005 she completed her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at Trinity College under the supervision of Hugh Garavan, PhD Her doctoral research focused on using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study cognitive control processes, individual differences and practice effects in healthy adults. In 2006 she joined the Phyllis Green and Randolph Cōwen Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience at the NYU Child Study Center, where she uses fMRI to examine brain development and cognitive function in children, adolescents and adults – healthy individuals, as well as those with psychiatric disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and substance addiction.

Dr. Kelly is a member of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping and Society for Neuroscience. Her work has been published in Biological Psychiatry, The Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, NeuroImage, and The European Journal of Neuroscience. Her author profile is available here.