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Grant Harrell

Grant Harrell, MD

Assistant Professor & Medical Director

Department: MD-CHFM RURAL HEALTH-OLD TOWN
Business Phone: (352) 542-0068
Business Email: gharrell@ufl.edu

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About Grant Harrell

Grant Harrell, M.D., is a physician at UF Health Family Medicine – Old Town and the medical director of the UF Mobile Outreach Clinic. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell, Dr. Harrell was a Community Organizer for Hope Worldwide, Inc. in Nairobi, Kenya where he helped establish communication among NGOs serving orphaned children. After this, Dr. Harrell became a science teacher at Kanapaha Middle School in Gainesville, Florida before entering medical school at the University of Florida in 2006. During his time in medical school, Dr. Harrell co-founded the Gainesville Community Ministries Health Clinic. He later went on to complete his residency in Internal Medicine on the Primary Care track at the University of Kentucky, during which he was named the Medicine Intern of the Year as well as Primary Care Chief Resident. Dr. Harrell became an Assistant Professor for the Department of Community Health and Medicine in 2013. He is a physician in the Family Medicine at Old Town practice, and his clinical interests include rural medicine and student-run clinics.

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught

Clinical Profile

Specialties

  • Family Medicine
  • General Internal Medicine

Areas of Interest

  • Preventive Health Care

Publications

Academic Articles

  1. Unsupervised learning using EHR and census data to identify distinct subphenotypes of newly diagnosed hypertension patients.

    Journal
    PloS one.
    Volume/Issue
    20(7)
    [DOI]
    10.1371/journal.pone.0326776.
    [PMID]
    40632742.
    PubMed Publisher’s Site

  2. Reducing hypertension with adults experiencing food insecurity in low-income communities: Identifying intervention strategies and facilitators/barriers

    Journal
    Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.
    Volume/Issue
    1-15
    [DOI]
    10.5304/jafscd.2025.151.003.
    Publisher’s Site

  3. A Comprehensive Guide to Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics for Primary Care Clinicians.

    Journal
    Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM.
    Volume/Issue
    37(4):773-783
    [DOI]
    10.3122/jabfm.2022.220425R2.
    [PMID]
    39455270.
    PubMed Publisher’s Site

  4. Toward a Comprehensive Model of Medical-Dental-Behavioral Integration.

    Journal
    JDR clinical and translational research.
    Volume/Issue
    9(1_suppl):23S-31S
    [DOI]
    10.1177/23800844241273836.
    [PMID]
    39558739.
    2 citations PubMed Publisher’s Site

  5. Conflict among experts in health recommendations and corresponding public trust in health experts.

    Journal
    Frontiers in medicine.
    Volume/Issue
    11
    [DOI]
    10.3389/fmed.2024.1430263.
    [PMID]
    39131091.
    7 citations PubMed Publisher’s Site

  6. Optimizing Precision of Hypertension Care to Maximize Blood Pressure Control: A Pilot Study Utilizing a Smartphone App to Incorporate Plasma Renin Activity Testing.

    Journal
    Clinical and translational science.
    Volume/Issue
    14(2):617-624
    [DOI]
    10.1111/cts.12922.
    [PMID]
    33142006.
    1 citation PubMed Publisher’s Site

  7. Primary Care Tracks in Medical Schools.

    Journal
    PRiMER (Leawood, Kan.).
    Volume/Issue
    3
    [DOI]
    10.22454/PRiMER.2019.799272.
    [PMID]
    32537574.
    4 citations PubMed Publisher’s Site

Grants

Education

  1. Residency – Internal Medicine

    University of Kentucky

  2. M.D.

    University of Florida College of Medicine

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 542-0068
Emails:
Business:
gharrell@ufl.edu
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
25827 SE HIGHWAY 19
 OLD TOWN FL 32680
Business Street:
25827 SE HIGHWAY 19
 OLD TOWN FL 32680