K. A. Kelly Mcqueen MD, MPH

Dr. Kelly McQueen is an anesthesiologist and public health consultant in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. McQueen practices anesthesia and is the Director of Graduate Medical Education for Valley Anesthesiology Consultants, Ltd. Dr. McQueen’s titles include Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona, Clinical Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic and Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). She is currently the President of the Arizona Society of Anesthesiologists, and Chairs the ASA Committee on Global Humanitarian Outreach. Kelly co-directs the Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence, an international group committed to improving global surgical access, delivery and outcome evaluation, and she recently founded the Global Surgical Consortium, a public charity committed to improving safe anesthesia and surgery in low income countries.

Dr. McQueen received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Colorado College, her MD from the University of Vermont College Of Medicine, and a Masters of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Arizona and the Mayo Clinic, and completed a fellowship in obstetrical anesthesia at the Mayo Clinic.

Dr. McQueen has published articles in peer reviewed journals, authored and co-authored numerous chapters on a variety of anesthetic topics, and has presented her research at national and international meetings throughout her career. She has also published two children’s books, an elementary school curriculum for HIV/AIDS education, and an instructional video on HIV/AIDS for young children. While at the University of Vermont she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and her book, What’s a Virus Anyway? The Kid’s Book about AIDS, won the Vermont Book Publishers Association Special Merit Award and the Benjamin Franklin Children’s Book Award.