Christopher J. Kelly
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Christopher J. Kelly, MD

Languages spoken: English

Christopher J. Kelly, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is board certified in emergency medicine and practices at the University of Utah Hospital Emergency Department as well as the University of Utah South Jordan Emergency Department. He is currently the Clinical Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Section Chief. He is responsible for teaching emergency medicine residents as well as medical students. His research interests include point-of-care ultrasound, pulmonary embolism, and clinical decision support tools.

Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
National Board of Echocardiography (Critical Care Echocardiography)
American Board of Emergency Medicine (Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Focused Practice Designation)

Christopher J. Kelly, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is board certified in emergency medicine and practices at the University of Utah Hospital Emergency Department as well as the University of Utah South Jordan Emergency Department. He is currently the Clinical Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Section Chief. He is responsible for teaching emergency medicine residents as well as medical students. His research interests include point-of-care ultrasound, pulmonary embolism, and clinical decision support tools.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Eccles Health Library -Associate Professor (Clinical)
Board Certification
American Board of Emergency Medicine (Emergency Medicine)
National Board of Echocardiography (Critical Care Echocardiography)
American Board of Emergency Medicine (Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Focused Practice Designation)

Education history

Undergraduate Biology - St. John¿s University B.S.
Professional Medical Medicine - Stony Brook University School of Medicine M.D.
Residency Emergency Medicine - University of Utah School of Medicine Resident
Fellowship Ultrasound - University of Utah School of Medicine Clinical Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Crockett D, Smith BC, Kelly (2025). SonoGif.com: A Free Online Tool to Remove Protected Health Information From Any Ultrasound Clip. Journal of ultrasound in medicine,
  2. Kelly C, Palatinus H, Johnson R, Hunt-Smith T, Ewer N, Saint-Pierre L, Hoareau G, Johnson MA, Youngquist (2025). Nebulized Nitroglycerin Improves Carotid Blood Flow During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in a Swine Model of Cardiac Arrest. Prehospital emergency care,
  3. Brant-Zawadzki G., Hoareau G., Stoecklein H., Levin N., Selzman C., Ciullo A., Tonna J., Kelly C., Jones J., Youngquist S., Johnson MA (2024). Successful Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) deployment by emergency medicine physicians for refractory non-traumatic cardiac arrest. Resuscitation plus, 20,
  4. Weekes, A.J., Davison, J., Lupez, K., Raper, J.D., Thomas, A.M., Cox, C.A., Esener, D., Boyd, J.S., Nomura, J.T., Murphy, K., Ockerse, P.M., Leech, S., Johnson, J., Abrams, E., Kelly, C., O'Connell, N.S (2023). Quality of life 1 month after Acute Pulmonary Embolism in emergency department patients. Academic emergency medicine,
  5. Weekes AJ, Raper JD, Esener D, Davison J, Boyd JS, Kelly C, Nomura JT, Thomas AM, Lupez K, Cox CA, Ockerse PM, Leech S, Johnson J, Abrams E, Murphy K, O'Connell NS (2023). Comparing predictive performance of pulmonary embolism risk stratification tools for acute clinical deterioration. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open,
  6. Krulewitz N, Levin NM, Youngquist S, Kelly C, Hoareau G, Johnson MA, Ockerse P (2023). Evaluation of esophageal injuries after defibrillation with transesophageal ultrasound probe in the mid-esophagus in pigs. The American journal of emergency medicine,
  7. Raper JD, Thomas AM, Lupez K, Cox CA, Esener D, Boyd JS, Nomura JT, Davison J, Ockerse PM, Leech S, Johnson J, Abrams E, Murphy K, Kelly C, O'Connell NS, Weekes AJ (2022). Can right ventricular assessments improve triaging of low risk pulmonary embolism?. Academic emergency medicine,
  8. Law N, Chan J, Kelly C, Auffermann W, Dunn D (2022). Incidence of pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 infection in the ED: ancestral, Delta, Omicron variants and vaccines. Emergency radiology,
  9. Crockett D, Kelly C, Brundage J, Jones J, Ockerse P (2022). A stress test of artificial intelligence: Can deep learning models trained from formal echocardiography accurately interpret point'of'care ultrasound?. Journal of ultrasound in medicine,
  10. Weekes AJ, Raper JD, Thomas AM, Lupez K, Cox CA, Esener D, Boyd JS, Nomura JT, Davison J, Ockerse PM, Leech S, Abrams E, Kelly C, O'Connell NS (2022). Electrocardiographic findings associated with early clinical deterioration in acute pulmonary embolism. Academic emergency medicine,
  11. Kelly, C., Stoecklein, H. H., Brant-Zawadzki, G., Hoareau, G., Daley, J., Selzman, C., Youngquist, S., Johnson, A (2022). TEE guided REBOA deflation following ROSC for non-traumatic cardiac arrest. The American journal of emergency medicine,
  12. Bledsoe J, Kelly C, Stevens S et. al (2021). Pulmonary Embolism Clinical Decision Support and Effect on Yield of Computerized Tomographic Pulmonary Angiography: ePE- a pragmatic prospective cohort study. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open,
  13. Weekes A, Raper J, Lupez K, Thomas A, Cox C, Esener D, Boyd J, Nomura J, Davison J, Ockerse P, Leech S, Johnson J, Abrams E, Murphy K, Kelly C, Norton J (2021). Development and validation of a prognostic tool: pulmonary embolism short-term clinical outcomes risk estimation (PE-SCORE). PloS one,
  14. Griffith, A, Ockerse P, Shaaban A, Kelly C (2021). Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on CT Scans Ordered from the Emergency Department for Abdominal Complaints in a Tertiary Health Care System Undergoing Non-Surge Conditions. Emergency radiology,
  15. Kelly C, Carlberg M, Madsen T (2019). Spontaneous pneumothorax resulting in tension physiology. Am J Emerg Med, 37(1), 173.e1-173.e2.
  16. Kelly C, Ockerse P, Glotzbach J, Jedick R, Carlberg M, Skaggs J, Morgan D (2019). Transesophageal echocardiography identification of aortic dissection during cardiac arrest and cessation of ECMO initiation. The American journal of emergency medicine, 37(6), 1214e5-1214e6.
  17. Stoecklein HH, Kelly C, Kaji AH, Fantegrossi A, Carlson M, Fix ML, Madsen T, Walls RM, Brown CA 3rd; NEAR Investigators (2019). Multi-center Comparison of Non-supine versus Supine Positioning During Intubation in the Emergency Department: A National Emergency Airway Registry (NEAR) Study. Academic emergency medicine, 26(10), 1144-1151.
  18. Kelly C, Bledsoe J, Woller S et al (2019). Diagnostic Yield of Pulmonary Embolism Testing in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Syncope. Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis,
  19. Kelly C, Agy C, Carlson M, Steenblik J, Bledsoe J, Hartsell S, Madsen T (2018). Family history of venous thromboembolism predicts the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism in the emergency department. Am J Emerg Med, 36(9), 1550-1554.

Book Chapter

  1. Cha S, Kelly C, Anderson (2025). Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. 41, 481-495.

Letter

  1. Kelly, C. Ockerse, P (2023). Proposal for an amendment to the ACEP TEE guidelines: the aortic view. Annals of emergency medicine,