Robert McKeown PhD, FACE

President 9/11 - 9/12

University of South Carolina

Dr. McKeown is professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina (USC). He is founding director of USC’s Health Sciences Research Core and is interim director of the Institute for Advancement of Health Care, collaborating with Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center. He is a core faculty member of the USC Center for Bioethics and is a founding co-director of the USC Research Consortium on Children and Families. He previously served as associate dean for research for the Arnold SPH and was an active member of the university’s IRB from 1997 to 2005.

In addition to an undergraduate degree in chemistry (Furman University) and a Master of Divinity in theology (Duke University), he holds the PhD in philosophical theology from Duke University and PhD in epidemiology from the University of South Carolina. An ACE Fellow since 2002, he has been on the Board of Directors (2004-09) and Ethics Committee (1997-2005; chair, 2001-05) and is now on the Career Mentoring Committee while also serving as President-elect. A past-chair of the APHA Epidemiology Section, he also chaired that Section’s Program, Awards, and Nominations Committees, and served on the APHA Governing Council. He was on the Program Committee and chaired the Poster Committee for the Second North American Congress of Epidemiology in 2006, and serves in those same roles for the Third North American Congress in Montreal, June 2011.