Preston Medical Library

Kelsey Grabeel, MSIS, AHIP

Associate Professor
Assistant Director

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0652-4409

Research Focus

Consumer and patient health
Health literacy
Delivery of health information to patients and consumers

Published Book Chapters

Grabeel KL. Increasing Health Literacy in Rural Appalachia Tennessee through Outreach, Communication, and Education: How Libraries Can Reduce Health Disparities in their Communities in Advances in Librarianship: Roles and Responsibilities of Libraries in Increasing Consumer Health Literacy and Reducing Health Disparities Vol 47. England: Emerald Publishing Limited; 2020, Chapter 10.

Oelschlegel SI, Earl M, Leonard, K. Consumer health information services and programs: Best practices. London: Rowman & Littlefield; 2016. Chapter 2, The University of Tennessee Medical Center’s Preston Medical Library and Health Information Center; p. 19-34.

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Current Publications

Grabeel KL, Burton SE, Heidel RE, Chamberlin SM, Wilson AQ.
Utilizing the newest vital sign (nvs) to assess health literacy at a regional academic medical center's family medicine clinic. J Patient Exp. 2023 Dec 11;10:23743735231219361. doi: 10.1177/23743735231219361. eCollection 2023.

Grabeel KL, Wilson AQ.
Medical librarians and little free libraries: Connecting rural communities to health information. Health Info Libr J. 2023 Feb 28. doi: 10.1111/hir.12478. Online ahead of print.

Grabeel KL, Heidel RE, Oelschlegel S, Rudd R.
Collaborative updating of an organizational health literacy tool confirms medical librarians' leadership roles. Health Info Libr J. 2022 Jun;39(2):142-154. doi: 10.1111/hir.12390. Epub 2021 Jul 17.

Grabeel KL, Heidel RE, Oelschlegel S, Rudd R.
Collaborative updating of an organizational health literacy tool confirms medical librarians' leadership roles. Health Info Libr J. 2022 Jun;39(2):142-154. doi: 10.1111/hir.12390. Epub 2021 Jul 17.

Petersen D, Grabeel KL, Lindsay LM, Watson C, Dixon M, Kirkpatrick N, Earl M.
Providing consumer health information to the underserved public at remote area medical events in east Tennessee. Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 2021 Apr 20. Available in Scopus: May 2021. [Epub ahead of print]

Lindsay JM, Petersen D, Grabeel KL, Quesenberry AC, Pujol A, Earl M.
Mind like water: Flexibly adapting to serve patrons in the era of COVID-19. Medical Reference Services Quarterly. 2021 Jan-Mar;40(1):56-66.

Grabeel KL, Moore JC.
Confronting the opioid crisis with consumer health information: A look at east Tennessee. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2021 Jan 1;109(1):120-125.