Dr. Janice Key is the Director of the Medical University of South Carolina's Division of Adolescent Medicine, which she founded in 1991.  Dr. Key received her undergraduate and MD degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then completed her pediatric training at Boston Children's Hospital. She is listed in Best Doctors in America, serves on the executive committee for the Section of Adolescent Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics and was recently elected to the Society for Pediatric Research.  In August 2004 she received the MUSC Distinguished Service Award.

Since moving to Charleston, SC, Dr. Key have been involved in several school-based and community interventions targeting adolescent health including serving on the school-health committee of the local county medical society, opening the first comprehensive school-based clinic in the area, development of a school-based comprehensive teen development and medical intervention for teen mothers, serving of the Charleston County School District sexuality education curriculum committee, serving of the advisory board of the SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and the Florence Crittenton Home, and in the recent formation of a county teen pregnancy coalition.

She has conducted outcomes evaluation of many of these efforts and has published over 50 articles and abstracts in the area of adolescent health.