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Keith M. Rich, M.D. graduated from Taylor University in Upland, Indiana with a Bachelor of Arts degree with cum laude honors in 1974. He attended medical school at Indiana University where he received his M.D. in 1977 and was elected in Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his clinical training in Neurosugery at Washington University in 1982. He studied the role of nerve growth factor in promoting neuronal survival after injury as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Eugene Johnson, Jr., in the Pharmacology Department at Washington University from 1982-1984. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in Neurological Surgery at Washington University in 1984 and subsequently received joint appointments in the Departments of Anatomy/Neurobiology and Radiology. He was certified by the American Board of Neurosurgery in 1987. Since joining the faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University he has maintained an active clinical neurosurgical practice with interests in neuro-oncology, Gamma Knife radiosurgery, functional surgery for movement disorders, and neuro-vascular surgery. He has been co-director of the St. Louis Gamma Knife Center since 1999. Since 1984, his laboratory has studied mechanisms that alter cell death. He served on an NIH/NINDS study section on cell death from 1998-2002. Currently his laboratory is investigating factors that alter chemotherapy resistance in gliomas. | 