# Kelsey Martin

kelsey martin is a professor of biological chemistry, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and the current dean of David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is the first woman to be named Dean of the UCLA medical school, and is among just a handful of female medical school Deans in the United States She is a physician-scientist known for her work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying memory. == Education and career == Martin majored in English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University, earning her B.A. cum laude in 1979. She spent two years volunteering with the Peace Corps in Zaire before resuming her post-graduate education.