Joseph Keller, MD

Joseph Jordan Keller, MD, PhD, MS, MPH, is a resident physician in the Psychiatry Residency Program at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He is an Air Force veteran and graduated from Bucknell University with a BS in Biochemistry, BA in Spanish, and a minor in Chinese prior to serving as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Hong Kong. He earned an MPH at the Chinese University of Hong Kong while investigating the A/H1N1 pandemic, an MS in biotechnology and medical laboratory sciences at Taipei Medical University while elucidating the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease, and a PhD from the Department of Public Health for his research using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database for epidemiologic inquiry. He has published over 80 papers in international journals, presented his work at international conferences, and serves as a reviewer for emerging psychiatry research. As a government grant researcher, he investigated happiness and wellbeing, healthcare delivery in correctional institutions, tobacco cessation, physician-patient communication, and Indigenous Taiwanese health. As a freelance epidemiologist, he worked on projects characterizing suicide and mental health in Taiwan. Joseph is a graduate of Chung Tai Chan Monastery’s advanced training in Chan meditation and Buddhist contemplation and underwent additional training in the Nyingma tradition while in Tibet. He received his medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and has research interests combining his training in psychiatric epidemiology, biological psychiatry and psychopharmacology, and psychedelic medicine.