Dr. Keefe joins USF from Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, RI, where he was an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, director of Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence and at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, and director of the Laboratory for Reproductive Medicine at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. He was also a research affiliate in obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. The fertility program led by Dr. Keefe introduced preimplantation genetic diagnosis and new methods to mature eggs before fertilization. The team also pioneered new methods to freeze eggs to help women facing loss of fertility from cancer treatment.

He has served as the Director of the Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists and President of the Boston Fertility Society, which in 1997 gave him both its Prize Essay Award and its Original Research Prize. Dr. Keefe's other honors include the General Program Prize Paper of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Prize Paper. Woodward/White, Inc.'s Best Doctors in America Award, the Science Coalition's Outstanding Research Breakthrough for 1998, and Brown Medical School's 2002-2003 Dean's Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Keefe was named one of the 2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century by the International Biographical Centre and he is listed in the 16th edition of Who's Who in the World.

Dr. Keefe is a Diplomat and an Examiner of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology with a certificate of special expertise in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. A reviewer for several leading medical journals, he has authored 85 original scientific papers and 20 book chapters or reviews.

Reproductive endocrinology and infertility

In-vitro fertilization