Nancy Kellogg, MD

Meet Nancy Kellogg, MD

Dr. Kellogg graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978 and completed her medical school training and pediatric residency at UT Health San Antonio in 1988. Since 1988, she has been a faculty member at UT Health and is currently Professor and Division Chief of Child Abuse in the Department of Pediatrics. She was the first medical director at CHRISTUS Children’s Center for Miracles, which opened in May 2006, and has served as the medical director of ChildSafe (formerly the Alamo Children’s Advocacy Center) since its inception in 1988, and the medical director of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program at CHRISTUS Children's since 2004.

Dr. Kellogg has worked full-time in the field of child abuse for more than 20 years. She has evaluated more than 10,000 children for abuse and has testified on their behalf more than 800 times. Dr. Kellogg has published over 130 articles and book chapters and has been an invited speaker more than 200 times at local, regional, national, and international conferences. She was the Chair of the Texas Pediatric Society Committee on Child Abuse for 10 years, and was selected as one of seven pediatricians for the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect and completed six years of service in 2008. In September 2006, the American Board of Pediatrics approved Child Abuse as a new subspecialty in pediatrics, and Dr. Kellogg was appointed as the Medical Editor for the sub-board; she served 17 years in this position.

Dr. Kellogg has received numerous awards for her work in child abuse. In 1999, she was selected by her peers for the Ray Helfer Honorary Society as a charter member, one of the first 75 U.S. physicians with distinction in child abuse. She has received the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching and for Excellence in Clinical Service. She is also the 2004 recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award at UTHSCSA. In 2004, Dr. Kellogg received the Health Care Hero Award in the Outstanding Physician Category from the San Antonio Business Journal.