Keith Armitage, M.D.

Dr. Armitage is a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Case and is the Vice Chair for Education and Residency Director in the Department of Internal Medicine. His primary profession focus has been on postgraduate medical education and clinical infectious diseases. Dr. Armitage is a member of the Council of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. In 2003 he received the Parker J. Palmer Award for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medicine Education.

His research interests include the process of care in community-acquired pneumonia and educational outcomes. Dr. Armitage attended medical school at the University of Colorado and completed his internship, residency and infectious diseases fellowship at University Hospitals of Cleveland. He has been on the faculty at the Case Medical School since 1992 and has served on a number of medical school committees including the Committee on Medical Education, the Faculty Council and Faculty Council Executive Committee and the Committee on Students.

In 2006-2007, Dr. Armitage will serve as President-Elect of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine and will sit on the Board of Directors of the Academic Alliance for Internal Medicine. He is married and has three children under the age of 9.