Dr. Keene is Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology and regularly attends on the UW Medicine surgical neuropathology and ophthalmic pathology services. He is the former Director and current Associate Director of the UW Neuropathology Fellowship and enjoys significant mentoring, teaching, and training opportunities. Dr. Keene strives to promote scientific advancement in human brain structure and function, aging, neurodegeneration, neurotrauma, and neurooncology through diagnostic and research neuropathology. Dr. Keene supervises a team of scientists, fellows, research coordinators, and histotechnologists who respectfully and expeditiously perform brain and other research tissue donations and studies in a manner that maximally and optimally preserves tissues for diverse applications. Dr. Keene energetically promotes tissue and data sharing, and facilitation of local and national research through collaborative and cooperative mechanisms. The goal of the BRaIN lab is to promote human neuroscience research to propel development of diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventative approaches for brain aging, injury, and disease.