Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor of Science (Honours) - UTS 1999
  
• PhD (Analytical Chemistry/Forensic Science) UTS 2004
  
• 2000 - Laboratory Technician, Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Drug Testing Program: Australian Sports Drug Testing Laboratory, Pymble, Australia
  
• 2004 2006 - Visiting Fellow, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, USA
  
• 2006 2009 - Lecturer, Forensic and Analytical Chemistry, Department of Applied Chemistry, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
  
• 2009 current Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Applied Chemistry, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

Research Interests

• Detection and identification of drugs in various biological specimens
  
• Application of analytical techniques, including liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and capillary electrophoresis (CE), to forensic related analyses
  
• Chemometrics

Publications

Gray, T., Kelly T. et al. New meconium biomarkers of prenatal methamphetamine exposure increase identification of affected neonates, Clinical Chemistry, 2010, 56, 856 - 860.

Gray, T., Kelly, T.  et al., Novel biomarkers of prenatal methamphetamine exposure in human meconium, Therapeutic. Drug Monitoring, 2009, 31, 70 - 75.

Kelly, T., Gray, T. and Huestis, M., Development and validation of a liquid chromatographyatmospheric pressure chemical ionization-tandem mass spectrometry method for simultaneous analysis of 10 amphetamine-, methamphetamine- and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-related (MDMA) analytes in human meconium, Journal of Chromatography. B., 2008, 867 (2), 194 - 204.

Kelly, T., Doble, P., and Dawson, M., A fast CE method for the achiral separation of methadone and its major metabolites, 2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyrrolidine (EDDP) and 2-ethyl-5-methyl-3,3-diphenyl-1-pyrroline (EMDP), Electrophoresis, 2007, 28 (19; Special Issue: Inorganic species and small organic ions), 3566 - 3569.

Kelly, T., Dawson, M., and Doble, P., Chiral analysis of methadone and its major metabolites (EDDP and EMDP) by liquid-chromatography-mass spectrometry, Journal of Chromatography. B., 2005, 814 (2), 315 - 323.

Kelly, T., Doble, P., and Dawson, M., Chiral separation of methadone, 2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyrrolidine (EDDP) and 2-ethyl-5-methyl-3,3-diphenyl-1-pyrroline (EMDP) by capillary electrophoresis using cyclodextrin derivatives, Electrophoresis, 2003, 24 (12-13; Special Issue: Inorganic species and small organic ions), 2106 - 2110.

Dawson, M., Fryirs, B., Kelly, T., Keegan, J., and Mather, L.E., A rapid and sensitive HPLC/ESI/MS/MS method for the quantitation of oxycodone in human plasma, Journal of Chromatographic Science, 2002, 40 (1), 40 - 44.

Kelly, T. et. al., The development of a liquid chromatography mass spectrometry method for the detection of allopurinol and its metabolites in human hair, Problems of Forensic Science, 2000, 42, 143 - 151.