Gretchen Kimberly Berland is an American

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

and filmmaker who is Associate Professor of Medicine at the

Yale School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. The primary te ...

Life

She graduated from

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became t ...

with a BA in 1986 and

Oregon Health & Science University Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Med ...

with an MD in 1996. She was a Fellow in the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.

Awards

* 2004

MacArthur Fellowship The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

Works

* 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.
"The View from the Other Side — Patients, Doctors, and the Power of a Camera"
''NEJM'', Volume 357:2533-2536, December 20, 2007, Number 25 * ''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.

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Gretchen Berland, MacArthur Genius Award Winner
''NPR'', September 28, 2004 Physicians from Connecticut Yale School of Medicine faculty Pomona College alumni Oregon Health & Science University alumni MacArthur Fellows American filmmakers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{US-film-bio-stub