Gabriela Keeton, MD

Gabriela R. Keeton, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology at the Mount Sinai Health System and a board-certified neurologist and neurointensivist. She serves as the Associate Program Director of the Neurocritical Care Fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital, where she leads key educational, curricular, and mentorship initiatives for trainees across multiple disciplines.

Dr. Keeton earned her medical degree from The Ohio State University, where she developed a deep commitment to health equity and helped spearhead the establishment of a Spanish-speaking free clinic serving underserved communities in Columbus, OH. She completed her Neurology residency at the University of Kentucky, distinguishing herself as Academic Chief Resident and earning multiple departmental awards for excellence in clinical care, education, and leadership. She went on to complete her fellowship in Neurocritical Care at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she served as Clinical Chief Fellow and was honored as the Institute of Critical Care Medicine Fellow of the Year in 2024 recognizing her exceptional contributions to the ICU community. She also earned induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in recognition of her exceptional teamwork, patient care, leadership, and professionalism.

Since joining the Mount Sinai faculty in 2024, Dr. Keeton has established herself as a dynamic educator and leader within the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (NSICU). As Associate Program Director, she has developed multiple new curricula and educational initiatives, including the NSICU Interesting Case Conference, a platform designed to foster scholarly activity and generate pipelines for abstracts and case series publications, and a structured curriculum for non-neurology–trained neurocritical care fellows, incorporating dedicated rotations in stroke, epilepsy, PMR/TBI, and neuroradiology. Her work has strengthened the educational infrastructure of the fellowship and enhanced cross-disciplinary training within the NSICU.

Clinically, Dr. Keeton provides comprehensive care to critically ill neurological and neurosurgical patients at both the Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai West campuses. Her expertise includes the management of intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage, status epilepticus, traumatic brain injury, and complex neuroinfectious diseases.

Dr. Keeton remains deeply committed to global critical care and medical education. She has spent significant time in El Alto, Bolivia, providing care and leading educational initiatives in Spanish for ICU residents and critical care faculty. She continues to collaborate with international teams on protocol development and quality improvement efforts aimed at expanding access to high-quality neurocritical care in resource-limited settings.

Across her clinical, educational, and global health efforts, Dr. Keeton is widely recognized for her strengths as a clinician-educator, her commitment to trainee mentorship, compassionate patient care, and her dedication to building supportive, inclusive, and high-performing critical care teams.