Richard P. Keeling, MD is Chairman and Executive Consultant for Richard P. Keeling & Associates, Inc. (RPK&A), an independent health consulting and design firm in New York City. Through RPK&A, Dr. Keeling works with colleges and universities, health care agencies, and professional organizations to improve health, health-related services, and learning for young people.

Dr. Keeling is in his second term as Editor of the Journal of American College Health.

He also serves in a consulting capacity as Chief Learning Officer for Outside The Classroom, Inc., the producer of Internet-based health-related courses for colleges and universities; as Clinical Systems Director, responsible for developing innovative electronic clinical documentation tools, for Media Highway, Inc.; and as National Medical and Professional Services Director for Ascend Student Health Services, LLC.

Dr. Keeling is Senior Scholar for the Program on Health in Higher Education and Senior Fellow for the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), and is a member of the National Committee on Partnerships for Children’s Health. He has been President of the American College Health Association, the Foundation for Health in Higher Education, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and the International Society for AIDS Education. He was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Rethink, Inc.

Dr. Keeling took his Bachelor’s degree in English, summa cum laude, from the University of Virginia and received his doctorate in medicine from Tufts University. After completing residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Hematology at the University of Virginia, he directed the Department of Student Health at that institution for 13 years. He left Virginia to become Executive Director of University Health Services and Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served through 1999.

Dr. Keeling has received the highest awards of both the American College Health Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and, in 1996, he was named Health Educator of the Year by the American Association for Health Education. He has received two honorary doctorates in science.

He is most interested in the critical intersections of health and learning, strengthening liberal education, improving our ability to educate students as whole people, and reform in higher education. His clinical experience, teaching, and scholarship center on immunodeficiency diseases and their effects on individuals, society, and culture.

Contact Information: Richard P. Keeling, MD
Richard P. Keeling & Associates, Inc.
453 Hudson Street, #3
New York, NY 10014-3731
Voice: 212.229.4750
Cell: 646.594.3528
FAX: 917.606.0078
Email: rich@rkeeling.com
Revised 12/2001