Hunter Kelley

Hunter received his Bachelor’s of Arts in Neuroscience with a minor in Psychological Sciences from the Neuroscience Program at The University of Tennessee Knoxville in May 2017. Before joining the CTE Center on May 2019, Hunter completed a Data Analyst internship at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and also worked as a medical scribe in the emergency department for over a year. Hunter has always been intrigued and fascinated by head trauma, and his interest progressed further when he participated in a class discussing scientific literature on Traumatic Brain Injury and the long-term effects of repetitive head trauma. Hunter plans to pursue a dual MD/Ph.D. program, and his research interests include investigating potential biomarkers that can help differentiate overlying neurodegenerative diseases in addition to investigating the role of genetic predisposition factors in developing CTE.