Dr. Keating is currently a second year General Surgery Resident.

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Nu Rho Psi
• American College of Surgeons
• American Medical Student Association
  

04/2010 – 08/2010
Emory University, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Atlanta, GA
Student Researcher, Drs. Mary Wagner and Paul Kishborn
Generated animal models of palliated hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) by performing and assisting in pulmonary artery banding procedures

02/2010 – 04/2010
Emory University, Endocrinology, Atlanta, GA
Student Investigator, Dr. Eric Felner
Researched and wrote a chapter for an endocrinology textbook about multiple endocrine neoplasias and autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes.

08/2008 – 11/2008
Emory University, Trauma Surgery, Atlanta, GA
Student Researcher, Dr. Jana Mcleod
Evaluated patients with life threatening trauma for evidence of early trauma induced coagulopathy (ETIC).

05/2005 – 05/2006
Yerkes Primate Research Center, Atlanta, GA
Research Assistant, Dr. Mar Sanchez
Study of neurobiological systems that control stress physiology and emotion regulation in nonhuman primates. Analyzed the stress-induced hypothalamic pituitary adrenal response of rhesus macaques who had been noted to be either abused or abandoned by their mother at an early age.

1. Clifton, M., Heiss, K., Mackay, G., Keating, J., Ricketts, R. (2010, July). Use of Tissue Expanders in the Repair of Complex Abdominal Wall Defects. Poster presented at: British Association of Pediatric Surgeons; Aberdeen, United
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2. Keating, J., Simsic, J., Kogon, B., Kanter, K., Huckaby, J., Kirshbom, P. (2010, September). Impact of Early Gastric Surgery on Late Outcomes for Single Ventricle Patients. Poster presented at: Southeast Pediatric Cardiology Society /Annual Meeting; Charlotte, NC.