The Block Center: Keith I. Block, M.D., Medical Director
Practicing medicine since 1979, Keith Block, M.D., is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine. After completing a residency in Internal Medicine at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, he undertook post-graduate training in nutritional oncology and enteral and parenteral nutrition. Among his many academic and national appointments are:
Academic Appointments
- Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Editor in Chief, Integrative Cancer Therapies (A Sage Publications Journal)
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Research Assistant Professor, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Associated Health Professions, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Director of Integrative Medicine – University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago
- Clinical Instructor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago
- Member, Committee on Continuing Medical Education, Department of Continuing Medical Education, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Medical Preceptor. University of Illinois College of Pharmacy
- Medical Preceptor. University of Illinois College of Medicine
- Faculty Member, Functional Foods for Health Program; a joint program of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Urbana-Champaign
- CME Committee Member – University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago Editorial Board National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Appointments
- Facilitator, NCI's POMES (Practice Outcomes Monitoring and Evaluation System) Project, and Medical/Research Consultant to the Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington, D.C.
- Member, Advisory Panel for Alternative and Adjunctive Cancer Therapy, Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Medical Consultant on Nutritional-Oncology Research for the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Consultant to the Congress of the United States; Health and Science Policy Issues, Washington, D.C.
- Medical Director for the National Foundation for Alternative Medicine
- Member, Advisory Group and Research Team. The University of Texas-Houston, Health Science Center, School of Public Health, an alternative medicine research center for the National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C.
Professional Associations:
- American Medical Association
- Illinois State Medical Society
- Chicago Medical Society
- American Cancer Society
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
- American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
- American Society of Contemporary Medicine and Surgery
- The Chemotherapy Foundation
