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Douglas J. Barrett, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Health Affairs
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32610-0014
Douglas J. Barrett, M.D., is Senior Vice President for Health
Affairs at the University of Florida. He is responsible for
overseeing UF’s Health Science Center which consists of the Colleges
of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health
Professions, and Veterinary Medicine, the UF/Shands Cancer Center,
the McKnight Brain Institute, and the UF Aging Institute.
Dr. Barrett received his M.D. degree in 1974 from the University of
South Florida in Tampa. After a pediatric internship training at
Tampa General Hospital and All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg,
Florida, he completed his pediatric residency at SUNY/Upstate
Medical Center in Syracuse, New York. After subspecialty and
research fellowship training in pediatric immunology at the
University of California, San Francisco, he served as a clinical
instructor at UCSF until 1980.
Dr. Barrett joined the University of Florida in 1980 as an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Pediatrics’ Division of Infectious
Diseases/Immunology. He was promoted to Associate Professor and
Division Chief in 1987 and Professor of Microbiology and Pathology
in 1991. Also in 1991, Dr. Barrett accepted the position of Chairman
of the Department of Pediatrics and Nemours Eminent Scholar at UF.
Under his leadership, the Department of Pediatrics was a consistent
winner of medical student teaching awards and enjoyed a 10-fold
increase in NIH research funding. In 2002, Dr. Barrett was appointed
as Vice President for Health Affairs for the University of Florida
and in 2004, was promoted to Senior Vice President, Health Affairs.
Dr. Barrett is active in the Association of Academic Health Centers,
American Association of Medical Colleges, American Board of
Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Society for
Pediatric Research. He serves on the editorial board for
Contemporary Pediatrics and is a reviewer for multiple journals. He
is the author or co-author of three books, several book chapters and
more than 110 journal articles, with particular interest in
immunodeficiency disease and transplantation.
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