Cynthia Kelley

Dr. Kelley has served as the Designated Institutional Official (DIO) and Vice President of Medical Education and Research at Summa Health since 2015. In her role, she oversees 21 training programs and 300 residents and fellows. An Akron native, Dr. Kelley completed her undergraduate education at Miami (Ohio) University and her medical school training at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she also completed an undergraduate primary care teaching fellowship. It was during the teaching fellowship that Dr. Kelley found her passion for education. She formally joined the Summa family in 2001 as a family medicine resident and stayed as a faculty member upon her graduation. In 2014, Dr. Kelley completed a Health Policy fellowship and authored the lead article in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, “Impact of the single accreditation agreement on GME governance and the physician workforce.” She went on to publish in the Journa