Michael Neely, MD, MSc
Instructor for Mentor Training, Workforce Development
SC CTSI Role
Dr. Neely is a senior mentor in the Research Success Teams Plus, providing one-on-one career mentoring to junior faculty who are early in their research careers. He has also received training to lead workshops on mentoring skills development, which are available to faculty, fellows, post-docs, and Ph.D. students.
Contact Information
Professional Background
Dr. Neely graduated with highest distinction honors from UC Berkeley and completed his medical training at UC Davis. He finished a pediatric internship and residency, followed by a unique double fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland. He has been faculty at USC since finishing his fellowship in 2002. Dr. Neely has had continuous NIH funding since he was a fellow, first on training grants, then a K23, followed by three R01s as sole PI, two more as multi-PI, and several as co-investigator, along with additional funding from FDA and private donors. He has been the Chief of Infectious Diseases at CHLA since 2016. His areas of research include modeling the behavior of drug systems and using such models to optimize and improve therapy for populations of patients and especially individual patients.
Interests
Michael holds a third-degree black belt in hapkido. He loves to travel, hike, read, and cook with his family.