Clinical Director of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Cancer Centre and CNAHS Cancer Services, Cancer Council SA Chair in Cancer Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide. Chair State-wide Cancer Clinical Network. Vice-President and President-Elect of the Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC). Head, Mucositis Research Group, University of Adelaide. Acting Chair, Research Committee, CCSA.
Professor Keefe is an active researcher in the field of mucositis (the oral and gastrointestinal tract damage following chemotherapy and radiotherapy). Chairman of the Cancer Research Advisory Committee of Cancer Council SA 2003 - 2006. Her knowledge of oncology, supportive care research, and allocation of research funding, inform her activity on the Board of Cancer Council.