Hannah Jelley
My name is Hannah Jelley and I am currently a second-year pediatric endocrinology fellow at the University of Utah/Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma then journeyed down to New Orleans where I completed my undergraduate degree in public health at Tulane University. I returned to Oklahoma after college and completed my medical school training at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. I then moved out to Utah for my pediatric residency training before continuing on in Utah for my pediatric endocrinology fellowship.
My interest in pediatric endocrinology started at a very young age owing both to having a younger brother with Type 1 diabetes and a father who is a pediatric endocrinologist. Most of my early exposure to the world of endocrinology was through attending diabetes camp every summer. That is where I truly developed my passion for taking care of kids with diabetes and started to gain a deeper understanding of the needs of this population. Over the course of my medical training, I continued to interact with many diabetes and endocrine patients and my interest continued to grow.
My inspiration to go in to the field of pediatric endocrinology stems from many things. First and foremost, watching my dad in this field and his work over the years piqued my interest, then seeing the vast need for endocrinologists really pushed me further. Also, seeing my brother live his life with diabetes showed me a more personal side to the patient experience.
I have had many excellent mentors along the way, including my program director, Dr. Vana Raman, who was also a mentor of mine during my pediatric residency, and Dr. Mary Murray, who was the chief of our department here in Utah for many years and with whom I had the pleasure to work alongside both as a resident and as a first-year fellow.
I hope to continue to work in an academic setting in the future where education, quality improvement, and advocacy are all emphasized. I recently received a grant to help implement more comprehensive education materials on diabetes technology including insulin pumps and CGMs in various languages in order to improve technology use in our underserved racial and ethnic minority patients and I hope to continue to work with the underserved community in my future career. I also enjoy working with residents and medical students throughout all their levels of training and feel that this strengthens my clinical knowledge and experience. I am interested primarily in clinical medicine and find the most joy in establishing relationships with my patients.