Gretchen K. Berland

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of General Internal Medicine

Clinical & Teaching Activities

Inpatient attending, St. Mary’s Hospital (Yale Primary Care Medicine Residency Program), Outpatient attending: St. Mary’s Family Health Center

Scholarly Activities

Understanding the patient’s perspective, particularly in the context outside of the clinical arena is an essential, though often overlooked, component of the doctor–patient relationship. I am currently studying the perspective of the individual wheelchair user with communications technologies and several qualitative methods. I am also interested in using video to study health care delivery in the emergent medical setting, specifically medical codes and operative traumas. I am also developing a seminar series on the role of media and medicine with the Yale Clinical Scholars Program.

Selected Publications

• Berland, G., Elliott, M., Morales, L. “Health Information on the Internet: Accessibility, Quality, and Readability in English and Spanish.” JAMA. 285 (20): 2612-2621. 2001 May.
• Berland, G., Morales, L., Elliott, M. "A Report on the Quality of Health Information on the Internet.” RAND Health. May 2001.
• Rolling (life in a wheelchair). A 71 minute feature length documentary that has been widely acclaimed for providing unique patient-centered perspectives into the lives of wheelchair users.
• Maintaining Independence with Dignity: Perspectives from the Wheelchair.” A 90 minute documentary produced by Gretchen Berland and Michael Majoros.
• WGBH Television for PBS Primetime. “Condition Critical.”
  A two-hour special on health care reform
• MacNeil/Lehrer for PBS & NBC. “Hard Choices” and “A Time For Change.” A series on health care issues.
• GBH Television for the NOVA Series.
  • “Race For The Superconductor”
  • “Chaos”
  • “The Controversial Dr. Koop”
  • “Can The Elephant Be Saved?”
  • “Confessions of a Weaponeer”
  • “Death of Star”
  • “A Hole In The Sky”

Education:	Medical school: Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon (June 1996)
Training:	Internship/Residency: Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis, Barnes Hospital. (July 1996–July 1999) Fellowship: UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (July 1999-2001)

Contact

Campus Address
Department of Internal Medicine
Section of General Internal Medicine
333 Cedar Street, DC 013K
P.O. Box 208025
New Haven, CT 06520-8025

E-mail
gretchen.berland@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-737-5157
Fax 203-737-5358