Kelly Bethel

Kelly Bethel, M.D., is a practicing hematopathologist in the Scripps Clinic Medical Group and holds an adjunct appointment at The Scripps Research Institute. In addition to her clinical practice, she is the medical director of the Blood Bank at Scripps Clinic and Green Hospital, the past program director of the Scripps Hematopathology Fellowship, and participates in various translational research activities investigating circulating tumor cells, anemia, low-grade B-cell malignancies and myelodysplasia.

She completed an internship in pediatrics, a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology, and subspecialty training in hematopathology at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. She received her B.A. in English literature from Yale University and her M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Bethel is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and hematopathology.