Kelley runs Health System

The highest-paid employee of the University of Pennsylvania is not Penn President Judith Rodin. As head of Penn's Health System, Kelley presides over the largest such system in Philadelphia from his office at the flagship Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at 34th and Spruce streets. The system controls 20 percent of Philadelphia's patient volume, and generated in excess of $2 billion dollars in revenues last year. But when Kelley -- who attended Emory University in Atlanta both as an undergraduate and for medical school -- arrived at Penn in the summer of 1989 to become dean of the Medical School, HUP was ill-positioned for the managed care era of medicine. Engineering a 1993 consolidation of the hospital and the Medical School, Kelley became chief executive of Penn's nascent health system. During his tenure, HUP has become the third-largest recipient of federal research funding and the health system has become a dominant force in the region. Prior to his appointment at Penn, Kelley served as chairperson of the Internal Medicine Department at the University of Michigan Medical Center. Kelley had been a professor at Duke University until he received the Michigan appointment in 1975. Kelley lives with his wife in Bryn Mawr, a suburb of Philadelphia. The couple have three daughters and a son, all grown.