Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Keith Hamilton, MD FACP FSHEA is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently Director of Innovation and Technology for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Associate Healthcare Epidemiologist and is the recent past Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship, Co-Chair of the Antibiotic Subcommittee of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Chair of the Penn Medicine COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee, and Vice-Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His main professional and research focus has been in the area of antibiotic stewardship, specifically in developing innovative methods to increase efficiency and success of interventions designed to promote judicious antibiotic prescribing. These areas of interest include using large data sets to inform real-time personalized antibiotic prescribing practices, developing automated systems to identify potential stewardship interventions, and creating informative metrics for reporting and identifying interventions. He also has interest in expanding the implementation of stewardship programs in healthcare settings and different patient populations including ambulatory settings. In addition to antibiotic stewardship, he also has an interest in medical education for which he is Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Medicine, and Chair of the Undergraduate Medical Education Committee at the Perelman School of Medicine. He also is the Director of Curriculum Development for the Penn-VinUni Partnership at VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam.