Jocelyn Keehner, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Jocelyn Keehner is a physician specializing in the treatment of infectious disease who sees patients at the UCSF Medical Center. She received her MD from Tulane University School of Medicine and completed her residency training at Boston Medical Center in Boston Massachusetts. She completed Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego before joining faculty at UC San Francisco.

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Her clinical activities include seeing outpatients at the UCSF Infectious Disease Clinics and attending on the inpatient infectious diseases consult services at Parnassus, Mission Bay and Mount Zion. Her academic interests include SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics and antimicrobial stewardship.

Education & Training

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• Infectious Disease Fellowship University of California San Diego 06/2022
• Internal Medicine Residency Boston University Medical Center 06/2018
• MD Medicine Tulane University School of Medicine 05/2015
• BS Biology Yale University 05/2008

Interests

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• Hospital Epidemiology
• Infection Prevention

Publications (7)

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• Integrated Genomic and Social Network Analyses of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Transmission in the Healthcare Setting.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2024 Keehner J, Abeles SR, Longhurst CA, Horton LE, Myers FE, Riggs-Rodriguez L, Ahmad M, Baxter S, Boussina A, Cantrell K, Cardenas P, De Hoff P, El-Kareh R, Holland J, Ikeda D, Kurashige K, Laurent LC, SEARCH Alliance , Lucas A, Pride D, Sathe S, Tran AR, Vasylyeva TI, Yeo G, Knight R, Wertheim JO, Torriani FJ
• Evaluation of an Infectious Diseases Elective for Early Clinical Medical Students on Their Internal Medicine Clerkship.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2022 Sigler R, Roberts E, Welford E, Keehner J, Wooten D
• Resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Highly Vaccinated Health System Workforce.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Keehner J, Horton LE, Binkin NJ, Laurent LC, SEARCH Alliance, Pride D, Longhurst CA, Abeles SR, Torriani FJ
• More on SARS-CoV-2 Infection after Vaccination in Health Care Workers. Reply.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Keehner J, Abeles SR, Torriani FJ
• SARS-CoV-2 Infection after Vaccination in Health Care Workers in California.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Keehner J, Horton LE, Pfeffer MA, Longhurst CA, Schooley RT, Currier JS, Abeles SR, Torriani FJ
• Multiple, novel biologically active endophytic actinomycetes isolated from upper Amazonian rainforests.
  Microbial ecology 2009 Bascom-Slack CA, Ma C, Moore E, Babbs B, Fenn K, Greene JS, Hann BD, Keehner J, Kelley-Swift EG, Kembaiyan V, Lee SJ, Li P, Light DY, Lin EH, Schorn MA, Vekhter D, Boulanger LA, Hess WM, Vargas PN, …
• Bioactive endophytes warrant intensified exploration and conservation.
  PloS one 2008 Smith SA, Tank DC, Boulanger LA, Bascom-Slack CA, Eisenman K, Kingery D, Babbs B, Fenn K, Greene JS, Hann BD, Keehner J, Kelley-Swift EG, Kembaiyan V, Lee SJ, Li P, Light DY, Lin EH, Ma C, Moore E, …