He received his B.A. from The University of Vermont, his M.S. in Mathematics from The University of New Orleans, and his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a member on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Medical Quality. Dr. Keith’s research interests include obesity-related outcomes, cancer outcomes, medication usage and policy, risk of hospitalization, modeling event rate data, and developing nonlinear statistical methods. He teaches GC 630: “Fundamentals of Clinical Trials” in the Jefferson Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Keith is collaborating with Center faculty and staff on several projects being performed in collaboration with the Agency for Health and Social Care of the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Parma Local Health Authority.