Nancy L. Keating MD, MPH

Nancy L. Keating, MD, MPH, is Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Keating’s research examines provider, patient, and health system factors that influence the delivery of high-quality care for individuals with cancer.

Dr. Keating is currently Clinical Lead of the Evaluation Team for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s Oncology Care Model, an alternate payment and delivery model for oncology practices administering chemotherapy. The evaluation is assessing patients’ experiences with care, quality of care, health care utilization, and outcomes for patients in approximately 200 participating practices and in comparison practices. In other work, she is studying quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries with cancer, assessing the reliability and consistency of quality measurement across surgical and medical oncology practices caring for individuals with cancer and assessing reliability of measures of equitable care. Other work has examined patient, physician, and health system factors contributing to the variations in the intensity of end-of-life (EOL) care for individuals with advanced cancer. In addition, she is examining the influence of physician networks on care to understand the diffusion of cancer care practices over time, focusing on the use of new biologic therapies for cancer and care at the end of life. She is currently pilot testing two interventions to improve patients’ understanding of the goals of chemotherapy and to improve patients’ discussions with their clinicians about their preferences and goals of care.

Dr. Keating received her MD degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and her MPH degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was awarded the Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine in 2005. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. She currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Geriatric Oncology, and a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Center Senior Oncology Guideline Panel. She recently completed 3-year terms on the Council of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee.