Timothy J. Kelly is Vice President of Marketing for Dialog Medical. His responsibilities include overseeing the creation and implementation of marketing strategies and business development. Kelly received bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering from the University of Bridgeport, a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Drexel University, and a master’s in business administration from Mercer University. Before joining Dialog Medical in 2004, he held positions in the marketing departments of two divisions of C.R. Bard Inc., most recently serving as marketing director for Bard Medical Division. In that role, he was responsible for leading a team that conducted a 40-institution clinical trial of an investigational respiratory product. Kelly also spent time managing C.R. Bard’s urology, critical care, surgical and infection control product lines. Prior to his 17 years with Bard, he served as a fellow at the Biomedical Engineering and Science Institute, where he focused on telemetry and gastroenterology. Prior to that, he worked for four years in the research and development group of the Hospital Products Division of Chesebrough-Ponds, Inc. Kelly’s areas of interest include patient safety, clinical study optimization, shared decision-making research and patient monitoring. He serves as Dialog Medical’s representative on the National Quality Forum (NQF) and participated at the 2004 invitation-only workshop sponsored by the NQF: Improving Patient Safety Through Informed Consent for Low Literacy and Limited English Proficiency Populations. Kelly has authored numerous publications and holds two U.S. patents.