Department of Medicine
University of Wisconsin
JONATHAN G KEEVIL
Contact Information
600 HIGHLAND AVE
MADISON, WI 53792
Mail Code: 3248
Biography
Co-Director, Cardiac CT
Jon Keevil is an associate professor of medicine and radiology at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. He received undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer sciences from Brown University and his medical degree in 1994 from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York. He completed both his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
Dr. Keevil's research interests focus on preventive cardiology, including applying technology to improve clinical care and education. He has developed a computer program that predicts individual risks of developing heart disease at baseline and after risk modification. The program is used in education and clinical decision-making by both patients and physicians and is available for downloading on the internet. He has also studied the effects of grape juice on the cardiovascular system.
As co-director of cardiac CT, Dr. Keevil has helped develop this new clinical program at the UWHC. Cardiac CT is now an accurate method of imaging the coronary arteries non-invasively. It is a viable alternative to stress testing, or to invasive diagnostic cardiac catheterization. Dr. Keevil also performs diagnostic cardiac catheterization specializes in hemodynamic evaluations of pulmonary hypertension.
As a member of the preventive cardiology group, Dr Keevil’s research interests have focused on cardiac risk assessment and treatment decisions. His research uses national data sets to evaluate the impact of various risk guidelines on the population. He has also created the website www.HeartDecision.org, which addresses these issues.
Dr. Keevil is heavily involved in the education of new physicians. He is the director of the cardiovascular medicine/pathophysiology course for second-year medical students. He also teaches residents and cardiovascular fellows clinical inpatient and outpatient care as well as both invasive and non-invasive coronary imaging.
In addition to an active outpatient practice in general cardiology and prevention, Dr. Keevil has a regularly scheduled outreach clinic and is a frequent lecturer to the community and CME audiences.
Search for Jon Keevil's literature abstracts on PubMed
SCullen MW, Gangnon R, McBride PE, Keevil JG. National improvements in the recognition and treatment of patients at increased coronary risk: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002. Am Heart J. 2008;156(2):284-91.
Guttormsen BN, Stein JH, McBride PE, Cullen MW, Gangnon R, Keevil JG. Rationale for Targeted Rather Than Population Based Screening with C-Reactive Protein; The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002. American Journal of Cardiology 2007;100(7):1130-3.
JG, Cullen MW, Gangnon, R, McBride PE, Stein JH. Implications of the United States’ cardiac risk and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol distributions for the diagnosis and treatment of dyslipidemia: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2002. Circulation 2007;115:1363-70.
Guttormsen B, Nee L, Makielski JC, Keevil JG. Transient left ventricular apical ballooning: a review of the literature. Wisconsin Medical Journal 2006;105(3):49-54.
Keevil JG, Advanced Lipoprotein Testing: What is it? When Should it Be Used? Lipid Letter 2003;2(3):3.
Stein JH, Keevil JG, Wiebe DA, Aeschlimann SA, Folts JD. Purple grape juice improves endothelial function and reduces the susceptibility of LDL cholesterol to oxidation in patients with coronary artery disease. Circulation 1999; 100:1050-55.
Keevil JG, Osman HE, Reed JD, Folts JD. Grape juice, but not orange or grapefruit juices, inhibit human platelet aggregation. J Nutr 2000; 130:53-56.
Keevil JG: Development and implementation of the Cardiovascular Medicine web page. http://cardiovascular.medicine.wisc.edu/CHDRisk 2000.