Dr. Vranas is from originally from Eugene, OR. She attended Santa Clara University for her undergraduate studies, and received her medical degree from Cornell University. She completed internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania, then spent two years working as an ICU hospitalist at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center before beginning her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Stanford University. While at Stanford, Dr. Vranas joined the Clinical Excellence Research Center, where she studied innovative methods to improve the quality and efficiency of critical care. She then completed her fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and has since joined the faculty in OHSU’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care. Her research is focused on understanding how organizational factors and processes of care influence the outcomes of critically ill patients. She hopes to use insights gained from her research to improve the value of intensive care for patients with critical illness.