JulianaBarrMDFCCM

Summary

• Dr. Barr is currently a Professor of Anesthesia in the Medical Center Line at Stanford, and a Staff Anesthesiologist and Intensivist at the VA Palo Alto Medical Center. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California and she received her MD degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is board certified in internal medicine, anesthesiology, and critical care medicine. After completing a post-doctoral research fellowship in clinical pharmacology at Stanford, Dr. Barr joined the Stanford faculty in the Department of Anesthesia and became a staff anesthesiologist and intensivist at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in 1992. Dr. Barr’s research interests include the mathematical modeling of the clinical pharmacology of sedatives and opioids commonly administered to ICU patients, and ICU outcomes research. She has published over 60 manuscripts and book chapters.
  
  Dr. Barr was the lead author of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) 2013 Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adults Patients in the Intensive Care Unit. She is a founding member of the SCCM's ICU Liberation Campaign, and she helped to create the ABCDEF Bundle to promote widespread adoption of these guidelines. Dr. Barr was a national faculty member of the SCCM's ICU Liberation Campaign Collaborative, and she co-authored a landmark study which demonstrated significant improvements in ICU patient outcomes following implementation of the ABCDEF Bundle. She has previously participated in several national collaboratives to improve ICU patient care and outcomes, including the IHI's 100k Lives and the 5 Million Lives Campaigns. Dr. Barr is a nationally recognized leader in critical care quality improvement, with nearly 30 years of experience in critical care leadership, innovation, education, and research. She is passionate about improving the lives of critically ill patients.