Vaughn Keller MFT, EdD

Trained as a marriage and family therapist and educator, Dr. Vaughn Keller has been involved in healthcare as a researcher, clinician and consultant since 1972.  Dr. Keller thrives on figuring out what makes people tick and is most interested in developing an intervention model that will influence health behavior change.

Dr. Keller serves as the director of the Health Behavior Lab at the HSRC and is the director for clinical behavior change at Humana.  His department is responsible for delivering Humana’s clinical guidance services to University of Miami employees insured by Humana.

Dr. Keller believes the environment at the University of Miami is a unique living laboratory.  His role is to study how people make health decisions, what about their diseases and treatments is important to them, and how they will respond to different interventions.  He wants to figure out the “why” and the “how” and discover new mechanisms for health behavior change.

Being in a medical and academic setting is very congenial for Dr. Keller.  He enjoys the variety of expertise at the HSRC and the University of Miami and working with people who are passionate about healthcare.

Dr. Keller holds multiple graduate degrees in education and marriage and family therapy.  He was an adjunct faculty member at Yale University School of Medicine and was also associate director of the Bayer Institute for Healthcare Communication.

If Dr. Keller wasn’t involved in healthcare, he would have been a documentary film maker.  He still dabbles in filmmaking and is currently working on a project with his singer, songwriter daughter, Sarah.