Gretchen Birbeck, M.D., M.P.H., D.T.M.H., FAAN
Associate Professor, Neurology and Epidemiology
Director, International Neurological and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program (INPEP)

Academic Appointments

• 2005-present: Associate Professor, Michigan State University, Neurology & Epidemiology; Director: International Neurological and Psychiatric Epidemiology Program
• 2000-2005: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Neurology & Epidemiology
• 1998-1998: Neurology Inpatient Consult Attending, West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Hospital

Postdoctoral Training

• 1998-2000: Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, Medicine-Health Services Research
• 1995-1998: Resident, Johns Hopkins University, Neurology
• ·1994-1995: Intern, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Education

• DTMH, Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (England) School of Tropical Medicine, 2006
• M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles, Epidemiology, 2000
• M.D., University of Chicago, 1994
• B.A., Indiana University, Chemistry/Psychology, 1990

Background

I am originally from the mid-west having grown up in southern Indiana. I completed my undergraduate work at Indiana University and graduated from the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine. My neurology residency training at Johns Hopkins Medical Center allowed me the opportunity to care for a wide range of patients with many different neurologic conditions. I am board certified in neurology (ABPN) and attend in the General Neurology outpatient clinics at the MSU Clinical Center.

As a recent addition to the MSU faculty, my research interests are in clinical and health services research. Specifically, I am interested in health care delivery, particularly to vulnerable and underserved populations. My fellowship training and post-graduate degrees, through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at UCLA, include Health Services Research and Epidemiology. My clinical and research interests lead me to serve as a consultant neurologist in the developing world for several weeks each year.