David Keller, M.D.
Fellowship Year(s): 2009-2010
Profession: Physician
Specialty: Pediatrics-General
Fellowship Details:
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School
HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Rhode Island
At time of Fellowship
David Keller, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School, where he served as Medical Director of South County Pediatrics, a community-based teaching practice and “Medical Home” for children with special health care needs. He also served as Pediatric Director of the Community Faculty Development Center, a HRSA-funded collaborative program to develop community faculty in the primary care specialties, and developed a curriculum in child advocacy and community involvement for the UMass Pediatric Residency program. He is the founding Medical Director of Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts, a medical-legal partnership addressing the social determinants of health in practices throughout Central Massachusetts, and serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnerships. In 2007, he was awarded a Physician Advocacy Fellowship through the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University, enabling him to work half-time with Health Law Advocates in Boston on the Children’s Mental Health Project, to reform children mental health services in Massachusetts. At a national level, he has worked extensively with the American Academy of Pediatrics CATCH Program, a small grant program that encourages pediatricians to engage in community projects, and on the Board of Academic Pediatric Association.
Dr. Keller’s scholarly work in faculty development and child advocacy has been funded by HRSA (both Title VII and the MCHB), the RWJ Generalist Physician Program, the Cox Foundation, the Dyson Foundation and the Kellog Foundation. He has presented his curricula on cultural competence, child advocacy and the evaluation of community projects in workshops at national and international meetings, and has published his work in peer-reviewed journals and in several monographs.
Dr. Keller received his A.B. from Princeton University and his M.D from Harvard Medical School. He did his pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, before serving with the National Health Service Corps at Crusaders Clinic in Rockford, Illinois. He completed a fellowship in ambulatory pediatrics and community health at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and took his current position on the UMass faculty in 1991. Throughout that time, he has practiced primary care pediatrics focusing on families that were underserved and had children with special health care needs.
Current Info:
Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Strategy and Transformation
University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado
CHIP;Health Care Payment Models;Health Care Quality;Health Care/Health Policy Advocacy;Health Reform;Medicaid;Population Health
Since Fellowship:
David M. Keller, MD is Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Strategy and Transformation in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, where he works to develop value-based systems of care for children and adolescents. He currently advises the State of Colorado on practice transformation, payment reform and behavioral health integration by chairing and serving on advisory committees within the administration.
On a national level, he serves as co-chair of the Advocacy Committee of the American Pediatric Society. He is an active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Council on Community Pediatrics and the Colorado Chapter of the AAP, where he serves as chair of the Legislative and Policy Committee.
Prior to moving to Colorado, Dr. Keller spent 22 years on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, where he practiced primary care pediatrics, initiated novel community-based programs with a variety of collaborators, served as an Associate Medical Director for Medicaid in Massachusetts and administered Rhode Island’s All-Payer Primary Care initiative. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow (2009-10) in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the US Department of Health and Human Services, served as President of the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) and is a past Chair of the Federation of Pediatric Organizations.
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