Gregory Barnes MD PhD

Summary

• Gregory Barnes, MD, is a child neurologist based in Louisville, KY, with expertise in child neurology and epilepsy. He completed his medical education at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, with subsequent residencies in Pediatrics and Child Neurology, and a fellowship at Duke University Hospital. Dr. Barnes currently serves as the Executive Director at Norton Healthcare and is a Tenured Professor at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. His academic roles have included positions at Vanderbilt University, Duke University, and University of Kentucky. His research, which focuses on autism spectrum disorder/epilepsy and includes AI and imaging technologies, is published in respected medical journals with >50+ publications and an H factor of 31. He is also involved in clinical trials, such as a study on Levodopa in Angelman Syndrome and another study on cannabinoid signaling and autism. Dr. Barnes is a translational neuroscientist, who has long worked on the role of inhibitory neurons in autism and epilepsy. Dr. Barnes performs both in the clinical research realm, and with preclinical models in the laboratory.