Keith L. Kleszynski, PhD

keith-kleszynski@ou.edu

Keith Kleszynski, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine in the OUHC Department of Medicine.  Keith is also the Associate Director of the Oklahoma Healthy Aging Initiative and a Co-Investigator for the Oklahoma Dementia Care Network.  Keith holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma and has over 15 years of research experience including conducting research with older Oklahoman adults, American Indian tribes, undocumented Latino immigrants in the U.S., drug court enrollees, and former undocumented Latino immigrants who have returned to Mexico and Latin America.  His specialties and research interests involve qualitative research methodologies, caregiver burden and stress, population health disparities, geriatric health issues, aging issues, active living, identity, and migration.