KELLER-LAMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION (KLHF) - Key Persons

Alyssa Gautreau - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Council
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Secretary
  • Treasurer
  • Secretary / Treasurer, Keller - Lamar Health Foundation
Leadership Home Alyssa Gautreau, CPA Ms. Gautreau is a CPA with over 25 years of professional accounting experience. She has an undergraduate degree in accounting and a masters degree in taxation. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants. Ms. Gautreau worked in public accounting in taxation for 12 years before moving to private industry. She is currently the financial manager and secretary/treasurer for Woodlawn Investments, Inc., where she has served as financial manager for the last 14 years.

Charles W. Lamar III - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Chairman of Woodlawn Investments, Inc
  • Chairman, Keller - Lamar Health Foundation
  • Leadership
Leadership Home Charles W. Lamar III Mr. Lamar is chairman of Woodlawn Investments, Inc. and former general counsel and board member at Lamar Advertising Company. He is the founder of Charles Lamar Family Foundation and a board member of several non-profit organizations, including Lamar-Dixon Expo Foundation, Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation, Alzheimer's Services of Greater Baton Rouge and Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Through financial contributions, he has helped establish or expand facilities and programs at many non-profit organizations, including Louisiana State University and the Institute for Dementia Research and Prevention at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

Dr. Jeffrey Keller - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Researcher
  • CEO, Keller - Lamar Health Foundation
  • Leadership
Leadership Home Dr. Jeffrey Keller, PhD Dr Keller is a researcher with over 20 years experience in pre-clinical and clinical research of AD. He is the founder and director of one of the leading AD clinical research sites in the USA, and has overseen more than 2 dozen pharmaceutical industry and NIH funded clinical trials. Dr Keller has over 185 peer reviewed manuscripts and been consistently funded by the NIH for over 20 years. In addition to these academic efforts Dr Keller serves as a consultant for a variety of senior living, geriatric care management, and health system efforts designed to improve the care of individuals with AD. Dr. Jeffrey Keller moved to Baton Rouge Louisiana in 2008 to work at the LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Upon arriving in Baton Rouge, he worked to quickly establish a new aging and Alzheimer's disease research site. Charles Lamar was an early supporter of Dr. Keller's work at Pennington Biomedical and one of the first subjects in Dr. Keller's longitudinal aging study there. The Pennington Biomedical Institute on Dementia Research and Prevention (IDRP) was established by Jeffrey Keller, PhD, with the support of the LSU Board of Regents. In 2014 the IDRP was recognized by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging as the only Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Site (ADCS) in a tristate area. To date approximately 4,000 participants have joined in the longitudinal study. In 2017, the two collaborated on a new effort by forming the Keller-Lamar Health Foundation (KLHF). The initial goal of KLHF is to develop web-based tools for recruiting and monitoring participants in diverse aging studies in a wide array of settings ranging from universities to independent health-related organizations. This new nationwide network, the Jo Lamar Education and Research Network (JLEARN), is now beginning to take shape.

Matthew G. Rachleff

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Council
  • Member of the Leadership Team