Chairman's biography
Martin B. Keller, MD, is the Mary E. Zucker Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island. In addition, he is Executive Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the seven Brown University affiliated hospitals.
Dr. Keller earned his BA in psychology with distinction at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and his MD at Cornell University Weill College of Medicine in New York City. After graduating, he completed his internship at Bellevue Medical Center in New York City. His residency in psychiatry was completed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was designated Chief Resident.
Dr. Keller’s research includes fundamental contributions to developing standardized, replicable, and verifiable methods for assessing time to recovery, relapse, recurrence, and chronicity of episodes of mood and anxiety disorders, and the level of symptomatology over long periods of time. He is the author or coauthor of more than 350 articles, book chapters, reviews, and editorials, including those published in prestigious scientific journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Archives of General Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Psychiatry. He is an editorial board member of numerous journals, including Depression and Anxiety; field editor for Neuropsychopharmacology; and co-editor of the International Journal of Psychopharmacology.
He has received more than 20 research grant awards from the National Institutes of Health and numerous grants from research foundations and the pharmaceutical industry. Currently, he has separate long-term, prospective follow-up studies underway involving adults with mood disorders, adults with anxiety disorders seen in a psychiatric setting and a general medical setting, and children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. He also directs several multi-institutional randomized clinical trials that investigate the safety and efficacy of antidepressant agents and psychotherapy with adults and adolescents with bipolar and unipolar illness; several multi-site studies of the acute, continuation, and maintenance treatments of chronic major depression and double depression; and a separate long-term study on recurrent depression.
Dr. Keller is the recipient of the Award for Research in Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association, the Lieber Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, the Klerman Lifetime Research Award from the National Depression and Manic Depression Association, the Mood Disorders Lifetime Research Award from the American College of Psychiatrists, the Edward A. Strecker Award from the Pennsylvania Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the Voice of Mental Health Award from The Jed Foundation for his contributions in the area of suicide prevention. He was also elected to the 2005-2006 Best Doctors worldwide database.
Revised 01/07