Gretchen Henkel is a medical journalist based in Los Osos, Calif.
Career
1966–Graduates from Harvard Medical School in Boston. Completes a one-year surgery internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
1967–Serves as staff associate at the U.S. Public Health Service of the National Institutes of Health.
1972–Completes a one-year internal medicine residency at Stanford University.
1973–Completes a one-year internal medicine residency at Cornell-New York Hospital.
1974–Completes a one-year internal medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
1976–Accepts position as adjunct associate professor of medicine (rheumatology) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
1980–Accepts position as professor of medicine and microbiology and chief of rheumatology and immunology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn.
1992–Steps down as chief of rheumatology and immunology at Vanderbilt.
