Preston Medical Library 
Kelsey Grabeel, MSIS, AHIP
Associate 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
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.
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.
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