Essie Woods Bruell, MD
Board Certified, Internal Medicine
Chattanooga, Tennessee
About
Dr. Bruell is a physician with more than 20 years of experience in internal medicine. She earned her Doctor of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and completed her internal medicine residency at The Johns Hopkins University. She then built a long-standing private practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee, caring for adult patients across a wide range of acute and chronic conditions with a focus on diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient education.
Since 2016, Dr. Bruell has worked in medical writing, editing, and transcription of complex clinical and scientific material, with additional focus on documentation for veterans and structured clinical content. Her editorial work informs her review approach: careful reading of the primary literature and a plain-language standard that stays readable without oversimplifying the underlying science.
Her role at InsulinResistance.org
Dr. Bruell reviews research pages before publication. Each page she has reviewed lists her by name, credentials, and NPI, with the review date visible on the page. Her review checks the page against the underlying primary sources, current clinical guidance, and the accuracy of any advice offered to patients.
Disclosures
Dr. Bruell has no reported financial or professional conflicts of interest with any of the research reviewed on this site. She has no relationships with pharmaceutical, device, or supplement manufacturers relevant to metabolic-health topics. She is a paid medical reviewer for InsulinResistance.org, a project of Pacific Shores Research Group.
For the complete list of research pages Dr. Bruell has reviewed, see theresearch reviews index. Each individual page names the reviewer and shows the last-reviewed date.