Preston Medical Library

Kelsey Grabeel, MSIS, AHIP

Professor
Assistant Director

Research Focus

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

Published Book Chapters

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

Towers CV, Meadows JT, Petruzzi PT, Grabeel KL.
SOX9 gene anomalies and campomelic / acampomelic campomelic dysplasia: Case report and literature review. Front Genet. 2026 Mar 10;17:1755075. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2026.1755075. eCollection 2026.

Armstrong VL, Grabeel KL, Nikbakht A, Murdock P, Lew JI, Heidel RE, Vaghaiwalla TM.
Evaluation of readability in patient education materials for primary hyperparathyroidism. J Cancer Educ. 2026 Mar 5. doi: 10.1007/s13187-026-02827-y. Online ahead of print.

Paudel A, Pearson RC, Mirsky E, Quesenberry Wilson A, Hunzicker A, Grabeel KL, Thorne J, Maples JM.
The effect of patient education on maternal fasting blood glucose in gestational diabetes mellitus in randomized controlled trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2025 Dec;38(1):2523582. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2025.2523582. Epub 2025 Jul 9.

Roberts R, Grabeel KL.
Systematic librarian-led zip code analysis to target underserved communities. J Med Libr Assoc. 2025 Jul 1;113(3):241-246. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2025.2053. Epub 2025 Aug 1.

Armstrong VL, Grabeel KL, Heidel RE, McGillicuddy CM, Zmijewski P, Murdock P, Lew JI, Vaghaiwalla TM.
Patient educational materials for pheochromocytoma exceed recommended readability level: An analysis across three independent reading instruments. J Cancer Educ. 2025 Jun 21. doi: 10.1007/s13187-025-02666-3. Online ahead of print.

Grabeel KL, Wilson AQ..
Medical librarians and little free libraries: Connecting rural communities to health information. Health Info Libr J. 2024 Dec;41(4):394-403. doi: 10.1111/hir.12478. Epub 2023 Feb 28.

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.