Deacon | Class of 2027
Committee | Sympathy & Service
Keith grew up in northeastern Pennsylvania as the third of four children in a Roman Catholic home. Although he remembers always having a personal relationship with the Lord and an active prayer life, he bought his first bible in the Penn State University bookstore as a college student and first began to read God’s word at that time. He left the Catholic church in 1989, but struggled in his Christian growth until God, in His providence, built a PCA church whose steeple he could see from his yard. He and his family started to attend this church when its doors opened in November 1997 and this is where he grew most in his faith, his knowledge of God, and his love of his Savior. He worshiped and served at Proclamation Presbyterian Church for over 20 years until moving to Greenville in 2021. During his time at PPC, he was ordained as a deacon in the PCA and served in multiple roles including Sunday service, compassion, and for 3 years as the chairman of the diaconate.
His professional career started upon graduation from Penn State when he matriculated to the Sidney Kimmel Medical College (formerly known as Jefferson Medical School) in Philadelphia. He completed his internal medicine residency at Duke and his nephrology and transplant nephrology fellowships at Vanderbilt. After a brief stint on the faculty at Vanderbilt, he left to help start a kidney transplant program at Lankenau Hospital in the Philadelphia suburbs which he directed for over 27 years. In the Spring of 2021, he moved to Greenville to help start and direct the Prisma Health kidney transplant program until retiring in December 2023 to focus more on his family and the church.
Keith and his wife, Jennifer, have been members of Second Presbyterian Church since 2021. They have 3 grown and married children who each have children of their own. Their daughter and son-in-law, Christina and Patrick Love, preceded them as members of Second Presbyterian Church.
