Barbara Vickrey, MD, MPH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Barbara G. Vickrey, M.D., M.P.H., is the Henry P. and Georgette Goldschmidt Professor and System Chair of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She specializes in research to translate clinical evidence into improvements in routine medical practice to improve patient health. Among her accomplishments are demonstrating that collaboration among health care systems, community organizations, and caregivers can improve quality of care and outcomes for dementia patients. She has also designed and implemented studies generating evidence that coordinated, team‐care models for veterans with Parkinson's disease improves quality of care. Dr. Vickrey is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a former President of the American Neurological Association. She has mentored over 30 graduate and medical students, fellows, and junior faculty in clinical and health services research, many of whom are now successful faculty members and leaders in academic medicine. Dr. Vickrey earned her M.D. at Duke University School of Medicine and her M.P.H. at the UCLA School of Public Health. She completed postgraduate clinical training in medicine and neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle, and then research fellowships in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA and the RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study.