Former Green River resident Christopher Kelsey recently received the prestigious Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award from Duke University. This award, presented annually by several southern universities, was established in 1890 and honors individuals who exhibit nobility of character and who place service to others and the community before themselves. Kelsey is a graduate of Green River High School and a former student of Western Wyoming Community College.
Each year, Duke University bestows two of these awards, one to a graduating senior and one to a member of faculty or staff or a graduate student. The university recognized Kelsey for his exemplary service to his patients, those students and residents whom he mentors, the university, the community and to his church. He is involved in innovative research and has received many accolades for his teaching and mentoring.
The residents describe him as being kind, patient, and generous with his time.
Cited for his deep care and concern for his patients, through letters, phones calls, and even home visits, he offers words of comfort and caring to not only patients, but to family members as well, after it has been determined that further cancer treatments are to be discontinued and hospice care initiated.
Kelsey helped to organize and directly participate in hurricane relief efforts in storm ravaged parts of North and South Carolina. He is an associate Professor and radiation oncologist at the Duke Cancer institute within the University Medical Center.
He resides in Durham, North Carolina with his wife Christi and their three children.
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