Honours
Keogh was created an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in 2003. He subsequently became a British citizen, and as part of the Queen's Birthday Honours on 11 June 2005, his knighthood became substantive (back dated to 5 February 2004).
Keogh is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the American College of Surgeons and the British Society of Interventional Radiology. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Japan, China and North America, King James IV Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2005) and Tudor Edwards lecturer for the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2007).
He holds honorary medical doctorates from the universities of Birmingham and Sheffield and Doctorates of Science from the University of Toledo and Coventry University. He is a member of the Lunar Society, on the council of the British Heart Foundation and a vice patron of the Royal British Legion Poppy Factory. He was a judge for the inaugural 2010 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
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