Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have named Sheila Ryan Barnett, MD, as the chair of the department of anesthesiology. Barnett most recently served as director of quality for community anesthesia for Harvard Faculty Medical Physicians at Beth Israel Lahey Health.
Barnett is an associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and has been on staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) for more than 20 years.
Barnett received her medical degree from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School at the University of London. She completed an internal medicine residency at Washington Hospital Center followed by a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she was also a Brookdale geriatric research fellow. She then completed a residency in anesthesiology at BIDMC.
Prior to her current position, she was the chief medical officer for Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital—Milton. She is triple board certified in anesthesiology, internal medicine and geriatric medicine. Nationally, she has served on multiple committees for geriatrics and quality within the American Society of Anesthesiology and is a board member for the Anesthesia Quality Institute.
In addition to expertise in geriatric anesthesia, Barnett has extensive multidisciplinary leadership experience across the Beth Israel Lahey Health system and Harvard Medical School, including director of graduate medical education for BIDMC, healthcare director for quality improvement at BIDMC, medical director for the Beth Israel Transfer Center, vice chair of perioperative medicine within the department of anesthesiology, and clinical site chief at BID Milton.
Barnett’s tenure at DHMC began on August 19.
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