Kelly A. Bennett, MD

Kelly Bennett, MD received her undergraduate and medical education at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. After her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology she completed a three year fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Yale University, New Haven, CT. Dr. Bennett successfully completed her MS degree in Clinical Epidemiology in 2001. She joined the Vanderbilt Faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2003. In 2009, Dr. Bennett was named Research Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Fetal Center at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital. In 2013, Dr. Bennett was appointed Division Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine. Dr. Bennett’s clinical and research interests are congenital anomalies; specifically, fetal surgery for repair of fetal myelomeningocele. She has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences. She has also been involved in research investigating numeracy and literacy in pregnant patients with diabetes mellitus, placental abnormalities, informatics and the role of cervical spectroscopy in the study of preterm birth.