David M. Keller, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Medical
School, where he was Medical Director of South County Pediatrics, a community-based
teaching practice and “Medical Home” for children with special health care needs for 17
years. From 2009-10, Dr. Keller served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in
the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) at the
Department of Health and Human Services, working on the implementation of the Affordable
Care Act. Since them, he has been Senior Policy Analyst of the Center for Healthcare
Policy and Research at UMass Medical School, where he has worked on a number of medical
home initiatives within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, serving as faculty on a large
Learning Collaborative, evaluation lead on another and lead author of a descriptive study
of the Commonwealth’s medical home activities. In 2011, Dr. Keller led a team from
Massachusetts to provide project management support to CSI-RI, Rhode Island’s Patient
Centered Medical Home Initiative. He also serves as Associate Medical Director for the
Office of Clinical Affairs within MassHealth, the Massachusetts State Medicaid agency. He
has presented talks and workshops on health reform and medical home transformation at
national meetings, and published on the development of practice innovation and program
evaluation in national journals. His current focus is the incorporation evaluation into a
variety of medical home implementation projects throughout the country, and the
integration of behavioral health care into the medical home model.
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