About Us
Keith R. Holden, M.D. created this website. Keith graduated from LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans in May of 1992. He completed an Internal Medicine residency program, became board certified in Internal Medicine, and is a practicing general Internist.
After becoming interested in Social Security disability, he spent seven years as a Social Security disability program state agency medical consultant. He dove head first into many aspects of the program, but focused on training issues as a way to improve the disability process.
While living in Atlanta, he was awarded Georgia's Disability Adjudication Services (DAS) 2001-2002 People's Choice Trainer of the Year award and Georgia's 2002 Medical Consultant of the Year award. While in Georgia, he worked closely with the DAS Quality Assurance department, trained new state agency medical consultants and disability examiners, represented DAS at the Atlanta Regional Office of Hearings and Appeals 2002 Management Conference, and spoke on the issue of medical testing to Administrative Law Judges in Macon and Savannah.
Upon returning to Florida, he continued to train state agency medical consultants and disability examiners, and revised three Body System Training Guides used by staff in all of the Florida Disability Determination Services (DDS) offices. For my service, he was awarded the Florida DDS 2004 Medical Consultant of the Year award.
Keith was fascinated by the dichotomy of the Social Security disability program. It was engineered to help the disabled, but in certain cases, causes hardship for its applicants and their families due to complex rules and regulations, Social Security staffing problems, and an often frustrating and lengthy appeals process.
By the work outlined above, and by his work on the website, Keith showed his dedication to helping the disabled and improving the Social Security disability application process.
In 2007, Keith decided to focus full time on the practice of Internal Medicine in Jacksonville, Florida. He planned to shut down this site.
I am Paul McChesney. I am an attorney who practices Social Security Disability law; please see www.carolina-disability.com if you want to find out about me or my practice.
I was a long time admirer of Dr. Holden's site, and did not want to see it shut down, so I agreed to go to the small trouble of keeping it functioning. I am not sure what we will do with the site in the long run, but I invite ideas, and while we are thinking we will keep this valuable content available on the Internet.