Keith G. Meador, MD, ThM, MPH

Co-Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health
Professor of Pastoral Theology
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor of Medicine
keith.meador@duke.edu

Keith G. Meador, MD, ThM, MPH, is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He is a physician and board certified psychiatrist with training in geriatric psychiatry, theology, and public health. Dr. Meador is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville. He completed his residency in psychiatry and fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at Duke University. His theological education was at Duke Divinity School and he received his MPH in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Dr. Meador’s scholarship builds on his clinical, research and teaching background in mental health, pastoral theology, and public health about which he lectures widely and has published numerous publications including the co-authored book, Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity. He served as the Director of Theology and Medicine at Duke Divinity School for ten years, where he continues to serve as a Senior Fellow in Theology and Health, prior to becoming the founding Co-Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center.

Dr. Meador provides educational leadership at Duke University, at the interface of theology and health, through interdisciplinary seminars, lectures, and curricular course offerings.  His scholarship includes theological and conceptual exploration of the intersections of theology and health along with empirical research in practices of caring and the health of faith communities and clergy. He is the Medical Director for Inpatient Psychiatry at the Duke affiliated Durham VA Hospital and serves as a Senior Fellow in the Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.