Paul E. Keck, Jr., MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Chief, Division of Clinical Neuroscience
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio

Paul E. Keck, Jr., MD is professor of psychiatry, pharmacology and neuroscience, and vice chairman for research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Keck also is chief of the Division of Clinical Neuroscience, affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and associate director of the General Clinical Research Center at the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Keck conducts research regarding the nosology, biology, course of illness, genetics, and treatment of bipolar disorder. In addition, the division is a center for the study of new medicines to treat mood, anxiety, psychosis, eating, and psychosomatic and impulse controls disorders.

A graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Keck received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and served his internship in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center, also in New York. After completing his residency training in psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., Dr. Keck remained on the faculty of McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School before joining the faculty at the University of Cincinnati in 1991.

Dr. Keck is the author of more than 350 scientific papers and abstracts in leading medical journals. He also has contributed to more than 90 reviews and chapters to major psychiatric textbooks. Dr. Keck is the editor of the book Managing Depressive Symptoms in Schizophrenia, and co-author of The Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and Related Conditions (2nd edition). He serves on the editorial boards of six journals and is the deputy editor of Current Psychiatry. For eight years, he served on the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) committee to develop practice guidelines for the treatment of patients with bipolar disorders, and currently serves on the APA Institute for Research and Education committee. Since 2000, he is a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacology Drug Advisory Committee (PDAC).

Dr. Keck is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Gerald Klerman Young Investigator Award from the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association (NDMDA), the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI), the Philip Isenberg Teaching Award from Harvard Medical School, the Nancy C A Roeske Certificate for medical student education from the American Psychiatric Association, the Wyeth-Ayerst AADPRT Mentorship Award, two Communicator Awards for Continuing Medical Education, the Outstanding Physician Partner Award of the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine, and two Golden Apple Teaching Awards from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

He is listed as one of the best doctors in Cincinnati by Cincinnati Magazine; The Best Doctors in America, a directory of the top one percent of physicians in the United States. as rated by their peers; and as one of the nation’s best mental health experts by Good Housekeeping Magazine. Dr. Keck also is the director of scientific development for the Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Information Service (NMSIS).