Heval Kelli

Heval Mohamed Kelli ascribes his journey from Syrian refugee to cardiologist to the kindness of strangers and access to education and health care. He is on a mission to bring this same level of access to refugees in our community.

He is the co-founder of several nonprofit organizations focused these areas. He is also the co-founder and president of the Kurdish American Medical Association, an organization that creates a communication and mentorship platform for Kurdish American students and physicians. Mohamed Kelli graduated Cum Laude from the Morehouse School of Medicine, completed his internal medicine residency training with honorable distinctions in social and in-patient medicine at Emory University, and is currently the Katz Foundation Fellow in Preventive Cardiology at the university.