Jay S. Keystone MD

Dr. Jay S. Keystone graduated from University of Toronto Medical School in 1969 where he received the Cody gold medal. He trained in internal medicine in Toronto and at the University of Michigan Medical Center. After obtaining his FRCPC, he studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he received his M.Sc. in Clinical Tropical Medicine in 1974. Dr. Keystone then did field work in Africa and South America following which in 1977 he became the Director of the Tropical Disease Unit at the Toronto General Hospital, a position he held until 1997. During a sabbatical leave in South India in 1985 he trained as a leprologist at the Scheifflin Leprosy Research and Training Centre. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Toronto Medisys Travel Health Clinic. He is past president of the International Society of Travel Medicine, and the clinical group of the American Society of Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Keystone is an accomplished lecturer who has spoken on several continents. He has published more than 100 papers in many distinguished and some not-so- distinguished journals, has coauthored 75 textbook chapters, and is the senior author of a textbook of travel medicine. In 2008 he was awarded the Ben Kean medal by the American Society of Tropical medicine for his excellence in teaching and mentoring. Dr. Keystone's research interests are in delusional parasitosis leprosy, intestinal parasites, and travelers’ health.