Meeta Prasad Kerlin, MD, MSCE
Meeta Prasad Kerlin, MD, MSCE
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division
3400 Spruce Street, 8th Floor Gates Bldg
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division
3400 Spruce Street, 8th Floor Gates Bldg
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-614-0627
Fax: 215-614-0869
Fax: 215-614-0869
Email:
meeta.prasad@uphs.upenn.edu
meeta.prasad@uphs.upenn.edu
Education:
A.B. (Molecular Biology)
Princeton University, 1997.
M.D. (Medicine)
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2001.
M.S. (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2009.
Permanent linkA.B. (Molecular Biology)
Princeton University, 1997.
M.D. (Medicine)
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2001.
M.S. (Clinical Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2009.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Dr. Prasad's clinical interests are primarily in critical care, including the management of respiratory failure and sepsis. She serves as attending physician in the Medical Intensive Care Unit, on the Procedure and Resuscitation Service, and on the inpatient Pulmonary Consultation service of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Long-term Acute Care Hospital at Penn at Rittenhouse.Description of Research Expertise
Dr. Prasad completed a Master of Science program in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Her primary research interests have been in the intersection between medical education, organizational structure, and patient outcomes. Her current active projects include (1) several studies devoted to the evaluation of nocturnal staffing models in critical care medicine, with respect to patient-centered outcomes, processes of care, physician staff outcomes, and educational outcomes, and (2) defining ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and knowledge translation projects for VAP prevention.Selected Publications
Meeta Prasad Kerlin, Scott D. Halpern: Twenty-four-Hour Intensivist Staffing in Teaching Hospitals: Tensions Between Safety Today and Safety Tomorrow. CHEST 141(5): 1315-1320, May 2012.Prasad, M; Holmboe, ES; Lipner RS; Hess, BJ; Christie, JD; Bellamy, SL; Rubenfeld, GD; Kahn, JM.: Clinical Protocols and Trainee Knowledge about Mechanical Ventilation. JAMA 306(9): 935-941, September 2011.
Prasad M, Holmboe ES, Lipner RS, Hess BJ, Christie JD, Bellamy SL, Rubenfeld GD, Kahn JM: Clinical protocols are not a barrier to education about mechanical ventilation. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine May 2011.
Koenig Helen C, Finkel Barbara B, Khalsa Satjeet S, Lanken Paul N, Prasad Meeta, Urbani Richard, Fuchs Barry D: Performance of an automated electronic acute lung injury screening system in intensive care unit patients. Critical Care Medicine 39(1): 98-104, Jan 2011.
Prasad Meeta, Christie Jason D, Bellamy Scarlett L, Rubenfeld Gordon D, Kahn Jeremy M: The availability of clinical protocols in US teaching intensive care units. Journal of Critical Care 25(4): 610-9, Dec 2010.
Prasad Meeta, Iwashyna Theodore J, Christie Jason D, Kramer Andrew A, Silber Jeffrey H, Volpp Kevin G, Kahn Jeremy M: Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in United States teaching hospitals. Critical Care Medicine 37(9): 2564-9, Sep 2009.
Meeta Prasad: The good internist: Will we know it when we see it? Internal Medicine Insight 7(3): 13, 2009.
Prasad Meeta, Tino Gregory: Bronchiectasis, part 2: Management. The Journal of Respiratory Diseases 29(1): 20-25, Jan 2008.
Prasad Meeta, Buller Gregory K, Mena Carlos I, Sofair André N: Clinical problem-solving. Sum of the parts. The New England Journal of Medicine 355(23): 2468-73, Dec 2006.
Bhaduri-McIntosh Sumita, Prasad Meeta, Moltedo José, Vázquez Marietta: Purulent pericarditis caused by group a streptococcus. Texas Heart Institute Journal / from the Texas Heart Institute of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital 33(4): 519-22, 2006.