David Keller, M.D.

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.