Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
VA Palo Alto
Dr. Juliana Barr is Professor Emerita of Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a Staff Anesthesiologist and Intensivist at the VA Palo Alto Medical Center. She received her BS Degree in Biomedical Engineering from USC, and her MD degree from Johns Hopkins.. She is board certified in internal medicine, anesthesiology, and critical care medicine, and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in clinical pharmacology at Stanford. She also has a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate in Healthcare Quality Improvement from Stanford. Dr. Barr’s research interests include studying the clinical pharmacology of sedatives and opioids used in ICU patients, and Implementation Science and Research in Critical Care. She has published over 60 manuscripts and book chapters.
Dr. Barr was the lead author of the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 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 helped to create the ABCDEF Bundle to promote widespread adoption of these guidelines. She was a faculty member of the SCCM's ICU Liberation Campaign Collaborative, and co-authored a landmark study which demonstrated significant improvements in ICU patient outcomes following implementation of the ABCDEF Bundle. Dr. Barr is a standing member of the SCCM’s ICU Liberation Committee. She has participated in several national collaboratives to improve ICU patient care and outcomes, including the IHI's 100k Lives and the 5 Million Lives Campaigns. She has served as the Chair of the SCCM's Patient and Family Support Committee and the Ethics Committee. 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.