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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Pediatrician |
| Location | Worcester, MA, United States |
| Introduction | David Keller, M.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Senior Policy Analyst of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research at UMass Medical School, where he is working on a variety of issues related to State and Federal health reform, practice redesign, medical home implementation and children’s mental health services. Recently, he was appointed an Associated Medical Director in the Office of Clinical Affairs at MassHealth. From 2009-10, he served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to that time, he was Medical Director of South County Pediatrics, a community-based teaching practice and “Medical Home” for children with special health care needs. 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. |
| Interests | Pediatrics, child health, child advocacy, medical education, choral music, bicycling. |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, Singin' in the Rain, 2001, M*A*S*H, Annie Hall, The Princess Bride, O Brother Where Art Thou |
| Favorite music | Bach, "B-Minor Mass", Bernstein, "West Side Story", Brubek, "Take Five", Copland "Rodeo", Dvorak, "New World Symphony", Rachmaninoff "Vespers", Thompson, "Alleluia", Yes, "Fragile". |
| Favorite books | Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land", Lewis, "Arrowsmith", Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings",Twain, "Huckleberry Finn". |