“Doctor, Friend, Advocate”

More than 2 decades of clinical, administrative, and academic experience and contributions to all areas of clinical cardiology have focused Dr. Keen on the most critical aspects of modern patient care: early detection of clinical and pre-clinical heart disease combined with precision, personalized patient management.  

Dr. Keen is on the faculty of the University of California in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine in San Diego where he is the current medical director of the cardiac noninvasive laboratories.  He is active in his busy cardiology practice, as well as teaching and research.

Dr. Keen studied pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, attended medical school at Rutgers University where he graduated with honors (Alpha Omega Alpha), and did his internal medicine residency at Harvard Medical School – the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.  Dr. Keen completed his training with a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.  

After fellowship, he joined the cardiology faculty at the University of California, San Diego.  He then joined the cardiology department at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego where he went on to become chief of echocardiography, chief of the adult congenital heart disease program, chief of the department of internal medicine, and finally assistant medical director over the departments of emergency medicine, hospital medicine, critical care, radiology, laboratory & pathology, and continuing care.

He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Keen is board certified in cardiovascular disease and internal medicine.