Kelly C. Vranas

Kelly C. Vranas is a Senior Professor at Oregon Health & Science University. Her research focuses on critical care delivery, health policy, and hospital medicine, with particular emphasis on life-sustaining treatment decisions, high-flow nasal cannula liberation, and the impact of hospital policies on clinician behavior. Her recent work includes applying human-centered design to improve acute respiratory failure care, examining longitudinal suicide risk among veterans with cancer, and evaluating the causal effects of double-blind peer review in pulmonary and critical care journals. She has also investigated institutional support for navigating abortion bans in critical care and the influence of hospital policies on end-of-life decision-making, contributing significantly to public health and emergency medicine scholarship.