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Gretchen Berland, an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine,
has been named a MacArthur Fellow, by the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for her work in medicine
and documentary film. Dr. Berland joined the faculty
at Yale in 2001, and was at the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson
Clinical Scholars Program from 1999-2001. She is the
first Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar to receive
the MacArthur Award.
Dr. Berland is a physician who utilizes her experience
in both medicine and documentary film and journalism
in order to highlight important points about improving
health care. "Through her efforts," the MacArthur
Foundation notes, "Berland prompts physicians and
the public to consider several key questions about health
and society: how we learn about our own health, how
physicians teach and learn, and how affliction creates
physical and social barriers that often pass unnoticed."
The MacArthur Foundation announced its 23 grant recipients
for 2004 on September 28, 2004. This year's recipients
work in various fields, from molecular biology to ragtime
piano, and are all considered by the Foundation to be
particularly instrumental in effecting progress in their
respective areas of expertise. Since it began in 1981,
the MacArthur Fellows Program has honored 682 individuals
of ages ranging from 18 to 82, all of whom were chose
for originality and creativity. Of the 682 Fellows,
15 have been recognized in the field of Medicine.
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