{"id":118726,"date":"2024-01-18T08:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T13:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=118726"},"modified":"2024-01-18T08:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T13:58:16","slug":"after-nearly-40-years-medical-campus-photographer-david-keough-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2024\/01\/18\/after-nearly-40-years-medical-campus-photographer-david-keough-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"After Nearly 40 years, Medical Campus Photographer David Keough Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Longtime BUMC photographer David Keough with wife Lori at his retirement party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For nearly 40 years, biomedical photographer David Keough has documented life on the Medical Campus, from a first snowfall or spring blossoms to the milestone events and myriad achievements and happenings that make up life and work at a dynamic educational and research institution. Faculty, staff, students, colleagues, friends and family gathered January 8 to celebrate his decades of work for Boston University; Keough retires on January 19.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that timeframe there have been so many changes with photography and the campus, and you\u2019ve navigated and embraced all those changes with skill and care,\u201d said BUMC-IT Educational Media Director Lucy Milne, who started at the same time as Keough, working alongside him as a photography lab technician.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll through the wonderful improvements that have happened on the campus, you\u2019ve graced the community with images that capture the energy, diversity and beauty of the campus and we\u2019re forever grateful for you and your dedication,\u201d said Milne.<\/p>\n

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Claire Grimble, conference operations manager for the Center for Continuing Education, adds her best wishes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Keough started at BU as a summer intern in 1983, working at the medical school while in the biomedical photography program at Rochester Institute of Technology. He came to the University full time in November1984 as a photography lab technician in the medical campus\u2019 educational media department.<\/p>\n

As a new hire, Keough had other challenges to overcome than being the new guy. He lost his hearing at the age of 4 after meningitis put him into a coma for five days.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeafness didn\u2019t stop me from living the life of a normal child,\u201d he said. He played baseball, basketball and tennis at school, and learned to read lips.<\/p>\n

Still, being deaf in a new job in a new city was potentially problematic.<\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately, my coworkers and colleagues were open and willing to work with me,\u201d said Keough. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten acquainted with many staff, professors and physicians over the years, and we converse well.\u201d<\/p>\n

David McAneny, MD, FACS, also has been at BU for nearly four decades. A professor of surgery, he\u2019s associate dean for clinical affairs at the school and chief medical officer at Boston Medical Center. He said Keough was not only a perfectionist, but also a \u201cdarn nice guy and a good man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think of all the groups that he shoots – every club, every residency, and every society, class and organization within the medical school and the hospital \u2026\u201d said McAneny. \u201cWe will miss him a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have known and appreciated David Keough\u2019s excellent work since I became dean,\u201d said Karen Antman, MD, BUMC Provost and dean of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. \u201cBut even the little things, like taking visa and passport pictures for students, staff and faculty, were greatly appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The cake decorated with one of David Keough\u2019s photographs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really grateful to have worked here for the past 40 years. And I\u2019m incredibly grateful for the people. They\u2019ve been so wonderful, so helpful and the teamwork here has been unbelievable. I\u2019ve met so many different people, so many different departments, and I\u2019ve cultivated so many different relationships; but I\u2019m looking forward to enjoying my retirement as well,\u201d Keough told those at the reception, speaking through a sign language interpreter.<\/p>\n

A lover of the outdoors, he has an especially long bucket list.<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of hiking, gardening and volunteer work for the Sudbury Conservation Commission,\u201d said Keough. And, of course, continuing to be active in sports like pickleball, volleyball and fishing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlong with my wife Lori, it\u2019s been a dream of ours to take a cross-country trip in an RV, visiting family and friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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