Keith Ablow
Keith Russell Ablow (born November 23, 1961) is an American author, life coach, and former psychiatrist. He was a television personality and a contributor for Fox News and TheBlaze. He taught as an assistant clinical professor at Tufts University Medical School and resigned from the American Psychiatric Association in 2011 in protest of the APA’s stance on transgender surgeries.
In 2019, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine suspended his license, saying he posed an immediate and serious threat to public health and safety due to sexual and unethical misconduct toward patients. The Associated Press notes that Ablow often mixes psychiatric assessments with political commentary, a practice some colleagues find unethical.
Ablow was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to Jewish parents. He finished Marblehead High School in 1979, earned a BS in neuroscience from Brown University in 1983 ( magna cum laude), and obtained his MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1987. He completed his psychiatry residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center and became board-certified in psychiatry (1993) and forensic psychiatry (1999).
Early in his career he wrote for Newsweek and other major papers. He held medical leadership roles and later wrote fifteen books, and articles for JAMA and Psychiatric Times. He hosted The Dr. Keith Ablow Show (2006–07). After the show ended, he worked as a contributing editor for Good Housekeeping and a columnist for the New York Post, and he contributed to Fox News until 2017.
Ablow generated controversy with several public comments. In 2011 he criticized a designer’s ad showing a mother painting her son’s toenails, arguing it could influence gender identity. In 2013 he said marriage had “died” because of same-sex marriage, and in 2014 he compared same-sex marriage to polygamy or bestiality and linked gay parenting to child abuse. He also promoted various conspiracy theories and made remarks about First Lady Michelle Obama’s weight. In 2015 he argued that men should be able to veto abortions.
He faced multiple lawsuits alleging sexual assault and harassment, and the 2019 license suspension followed investigations into misconduct. New York also suspended his license. In 2020, his Newburyport, Massachusetts office was raided by the DEA. Ablow has denied the sexual misconduct allegations and said the drug investigation was politically motivated. He had at one time shown interest in running for the U.S. Senate in 2013 but did not pursue a campaign.
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