Dr. McKeown is the John Nichol Chair in Parkinson’s Research, Professor and Head, Division of Neurology in the Department of Medicine, and adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He did his Engineering Physics, Medicine and Neurology training at McMaster, University of Toronto, and University of Western Ontario, respectively. He did a 3yr research fellowship at the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego before being hired as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He was recruited to UBC in 2003.
He is currently the Medical Advisor to the Parkinson’s Society of BC, and Chair, Research and Clinical Advisory committee, Parkinson Canada. His research interests include using AI for privacy-compliant video monitoring technologies for Parkinson’s disease and AI for precision design of non-invasive neuromodulation stimuli.