Tim Keogh

Timothy J. Keogh is adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, where he teaches negotiation and management communication in the master of health administration program. Formerly, Dr. Keogh taught leadership communication at The Citadel School of Business in Charleston, South Carolina, and management communication at Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business. He has been a linguist in Army intelligence, and earned a diploma in modern standard Arabic from the Defense Language Institute. He was a writer/editor for the National Institute of Education in Washington, D.C., and received a Fulbright grant for graduate study in the humanities at the University of Strasbourg, France.

For six years he held the position of manager of corporate training and development at McDermott International, a Fortune 500 energy services and engineering company, where he designed and taught management development courses, both stateside and internationally. Dr. Keogh has won teaching awards at the Freeman School, The Citadel and at Tulane, where he directed the master of health administration program and taught in the master of medical management program. He has trained physician educators at the Moscow Medical Academy, and he lectures and publishes articles on communication and physician performance topics.

He is a certified instructor in total quality management and in front-line leadership, and is a member of Delta Omega, the national public health honor society. Dr. Keogh received his PhD in English with concentrations in linguistics and technical communication from LSU.

Areas of Expertise

• Communication
• Physician performance
• Managing conflict
• Coaching and feedback

Degrees

PhD - Linguistics, Technical Communication Louisiana State University

MA - English Old Dominion University

BA - English Belmont Abbey College

Certifications

Front line leadership instructor certification

Total quality management instructor certification

Other

Fulbright grant to University of Strasbourg