Kurt Miceli, MD
Medical Director
Kurt Miceli, MD, MBA serves as Medical Director for Do No Harm. Prior to joining Do No Harm, Dr. Miceli worked as Chief Medical Officer, SVP Quality Improvement, and SVP Adult Behavioral Health for Elwyn, one of the nation’s longest-running human services organizations. Leading up to his time at Elwyn, Dr. Miceli was the Chief Medical Officer for Bancroft, and President of Marcroft Medical Associates, a psychiatric and neurology medical practice he founded. Additional past experience and leadership positions include Medical Director for Crisis Services at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Medical Director of Carson Valley Children’s Aid, and President of the Medical Staff at Fairmount Behavioral Health. Dr. Miceli received his BA in Economics and BS in Biology from Villanova University, his MBA from the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business, and MD from Drexel University College of Medicine. He is board certified in both psychiatry and internal medicine.
Authored Content
Letter
Can Structural Racism Raise Your Blood Pressure?
Editor’s note: This comment is in response to “Manifestations of Structural Racism and Inequities in Cardiovascular Health Across US Neighborhoods” by Lawrence, et al. published in JAMA Health Forum.
Commentary
Viewpoint with a Valence: Framing Muslim Victimhood, Ignoring Israeli Trauma
Editor’s note: This comment originally appeared as a response to the Viewpoint, “Mental Health Challenges of Muslim Populations Exposed to War and Discrimination,” published in JAMA Psychiatry. In publishing the…
Op-Ed
At the Pennsylvania Medical Society, Activism Crushed Medicine
Pennsylvania Medical Society
You’d think that a medical society would focus fully on medicine. But as I just saw at the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s annual meeting, you’d be wrong. On Oct. 18, I attended…
Commentary
The Perils of Reductionism
In their article, “Neighborhood Social Vulnerability and Racial Disparities in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Prevalence,” Deidre Anglin and colleagues posit that disparities in schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) between the black…
Report
Parental Access to Their Children’s Medical Records Is Under Attack
The HIPAA Privacy Rule, enacted under the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, safeguards individuals’ protected health information (PHI) by regulating its use and disclosure by covered entities such…
Commentary
Stop Forcing Taxpayers to Pay for DEI Politics
Editor’s note: This comment is in response to “Structural and Scientific Racism, Science, and Health — Evidence versus Ideology,” published by The New England Journal of Medicine in September 2025.
Letter
A Call to Reclaim Scientific Debate
Editor’s note: This comment originally appeared as a response to the editorial, “The Importance of Health Equity Scholarship in Uncertain Times,” published in JAMA Health Forum. Healthy scientific discourse thrives…
Op-Ed
Therapists are banned from talking to kids about accepting their biological sex
After the tragic shooting at Minnesota’s Annunciation Catholic School, families across the country began asking if the shooter could have been stopped. But Americans should also ask a related question:…
Letter
Reclaiming Merit in Medical Education
[Note: The full version of this article originally appeared as a comment to “Medical School Admissions After the Supreme Court’s 2023 Affirmative Action Ruling” by Nguyen, et al and published…
Op-Ed
The CDC Can Help Those Disfigured by ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
Chloe Cole had a difficult adolescence. As a result, she became a victim of unethical medical experiments, which left her with injuries that can’t be healed. As Ms. Cole, 21, tells…
Letter
The AMA Doesn’t Represent Doctors Like Me
The American Medical Association says it puts science above politics, but the record, as Allysia Finley has laid out, speaks for itself (Letters,…
Report
How the Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index Infects Pediatric Hospitals with Gender Ideology
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), along with its charity branch, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, is an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization that takes extreme positions on pediatric sex trait modifications, advocating…
Op-Ed
Good News: Child Gender Clinics Are Finally Shutting Down
Here’s some good news you may not have heard. From coast to coast, child gender clinics are shutting down, thanks to the leadership of the Trump administration. Children are safer…
Op-Ed
Leading Medical Journals Care More About DEI Than Major Diseases
In his novel The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann describes wealthy European consumptives who retreat to a sanitorium high in the Swiss Alps, convinced that thin air aids in treating pulmonary tuberculosis.
Commentary
Refining Diagnostic Precision: The Impact of Race in Clinical Labs
Samantha Anderer’s Medical News in Brief, Thyroid Disease May be Overdiagnosed, Study Finds, recounted an article in the Annals of Internal Medicine which found that variables, including race,…
Commentary
Evidence Over Politics: Rethinking Gender Medicine in Psychiatry and Beyond
This past May I had the opportunity to attend the American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual meeting in Los Angeles along with Ian Kingsbury, Do No Harm Director of Research, and…
Resource
Unproven and Unsafe: The Evidence Gap in So-Called ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
This resource details the lack of evidence supporting the use of so-called “gender-affirming care” to treat minors suffering from gender dysphoria. Claims abound regarding the benefits…
Commentary
Reassessing Pediatric Gender Care: Evidence, Transparency, and the Path Forward
The prevailing consensus from organized medicine currently favors pediatric medical transition (PMT). This comes in contrast to mainstream America where 71% of respondents to a New York Times/Ipsos poll…
