James F. Keane, DO, MEd, FACOI, FACP
Chair/Medical Director/Asst Professor
ATSU - SOMA
Dr. Keane currently works as an Assistant Professor, Medical Director of the Osteopathic Medicine Center Arizona and Chair of the Osteopathic Principles and Practice Department within the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona on the A.T. Still University Mesa Campus. In his continued learning, he has been focused on pain management, especially chronic pain and the associated hypo-dopaminergic state, as well as treatment of opioid addiction, PTSD, and neurophysiologic mechanisms of pain. Having recently moved from the clinical to medical education arena, he is excited to serve as co-investigator for the proposed project, Noninvasive multiparametric characterization of myofascial pain syndrome and its responses to osteopathic manipulative treatment.
After decades of managing on his own health and wellness interests, initially with Tai Chi/Traditional Chinese Medicine and self-guided learning about nutrition, he left a developing career in public policy to more directly use the knowledge and skills he had learned to help others with their health. The idea of becoming a physician to help reduce suffering was irresistible. After several years of pre-medical training, he was accepted to medical school. After completing an internal medicine residency and board certification (he is currently a Fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Internists and in the American College of Physicians), a secondary board-certification in integrative holistic medicine and extensive post-graduate training in osteopathic manipulative medicine, he continues to look for opportunities to enrich his understanding and practice of medicine. Thus, he is especially grateful for this opportunity to blend the art of osteopathic clinical care with the science of evidence based assessment and objective analysis. He feels that his experience, particularly with regard to clinical care, osteopathic principles, and osteopathic manipulative medicine, makes him qualified to provide expertise in the design, development, and implementation of the study proposed in this application.
