Meeta Prasad Kerlin

Dr. Meeta Prasad Kerlin is Associate Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Medicine and Core Faculty at the PAIR Center.

Dr. Kerlin’s primary research interests are optimizing the delivery of critical care services through organizational solutions. She has been the principal investigator on multiple projects, including survey studies, advanced secondary database analyses, and clinical trials, collaborating with academic colleagues both within and outside of Penn. She has experience utilizing both local (Penn Medicine) data and state and federal administrative data, including data acquisition, management, and analyses; and with ICU-based clinical trials, both as a site-PI and as a lead investigator. She has received multiple grants from the NIH/NHLBI to study implementation science in critical care settings and organizational factors to improve care and outcomes of patients with acute respiratory failure.

Dr. Kerlin has also been a dedicated educator and mentor. She previously served as the Associate Program Director for Penn’s pulmonary and critical care fellowship program and has supervised the direct research experience of residents, fellows and early career faculty who now have grants and manuscripts in the general topic of ICU organization and quality improvement. She currently leads recruitment for the Critical Care Health Policy Research T32 and is MPI of Penn PORTAL, a training program in learning health system science. She is a past recipient of the Mayock-Fishman Teaching Award and the John Hansen-Flaschen Mentoring Award of the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division. Finally, she practices clinically as a critical care specialist in the HUP and Penn-Presbyterian medical ICUs and experiences first-hand ICU care processes, complementing and informing her scientific agenda.

Dr. Kerlin completed her undergraduate education at Princeton University, followed by medical school at Vanderbilt University, and residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She came to the University of Pennsylvania for fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in 2006, completed the Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology in 2009, and joined the faculty thereafter. Dr. Kerlin is married and has two kids, lives in Center City Philadelphia, where she and her family enjoy running around the city and the fantastic Philly restaurants.