Kayla Kostelecky

Kayla is passionate about providing ethics education to future and current healthcare professionals. She serves on the board of directors for the Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum (CHEF), a non-profit dedicated to facilitating ethics education and networking for health care professionals across the state of Colorado. In addition to her passion for ethics education, Kayla supports clinical ethics through her service on local health care ethics committees and as the founder of MedEthic, L.L.C., which offers ethics consulting services to providers and organizations that need periodic and emergent ethics support.

Kayla earned her Ph.D. in Healthcare Ethics from Saint Louis University in 2020. Her dissertation critically examined dominant conceptualizations of decision-making capacity as applied to individuals experiencing mental illness. Prior to studying health care ethics, she studied law, receiving a J.D. in 2012.