Kelsie Mietla

Kelsie Mietla, MD is a Hecht-Levi Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and pulmonary critical care fellow at Johns Hopkins University, concurrently serving as a hospitalist at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.

Her academic credentials include:

• BA in Religious Studies, University of Virginia
• MS in Bioethics, Columbia University
• MD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
• Internal Medicine Residency, University of Virginia

Dr. Mietla's research bridges clinical critical care and bioethics, with evolving focus from end-of-life care ethics during graduate studies to racial disparity analysis in post-COVID critical care outcomes during residency. Her current work examines ECMO-related ethical dilemmas, particularly resource scarcity protocols and communication frameworks for goals-of-care discussions in life-support scenarios, reflecting her dual expertise in pulmonary medicine and bioethics.

Her professional trajectory demonstrates integration of clinical practice with ethical scholarship through hospitalist work, fellowship training, and bioethics research at Johns Hopkins.