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Gerald
R. Barber,
RPh, MPH
Coordinator, P&T and Clinical Pharmacy Services
Co-Chair, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Department of Pharmacy Services, Suite 925
University of Colorado Hospital
12401 East 17th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045
Tel: 720-848-6964
Fax: 720-848-5507
Email:
gerard.barber@uch.edu
Gerry
Barber received his BS degree in pharmacy from the Arnold & Marie
Schwartz
College
of Pharmacy.
He was a pediatrics and infectious disease pharmacy
specialist at the
Brookdale Hospital
Medical
Center,
in Brooklyn,
New York
and obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health from
New York
University
in health education.
He
completed a pharmacy fellowship in infectious disease at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering
Cancer
Center
then joined their Department of Medicine as a member of their Infectious Disease
Service.
He received certification as an infection control
practitioner in 1993 and also trained at the Centers for Disease Control with
the Hospital Infections Program.
His research focused on infections of central venous
catheters and also compared risk factors for surgical site infection between the
oncology and general surgery patient.
Outcomes from a prospective study he led and
published papers influenced changes in the NNIS indices for surgical site
infection as well utilizing larger doses for prophylaxis in larger patients and
adjusting for blood loss and subsequent diminished concentrations of
prophylactic antibiotics in the operative field by “up-dosing” intra-operative
antibiotics.
For this study, he was a recipient of the
New Investigator
award from the Association for Practitioners in Infection Control and
Epidemiology.
Dr. Barber
came to the University of Colorado Hospital in 2007, and currently is the
Coordinator for P&T and Clinical Pharmacy Services and an adjunct Assistant
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the
University of
Colorado.
He is a fellow of the American Society of
Health-System Pharmacists.
He is
published in a variety of medical, surgical and pharmacy journals and also
writes on health-related issues for consumer magazines and newspapers.
His practice interests are infections of
immunocompromised hosts, antimicrobial stewardship and infectious disease
pharmacotherapy within formulary management, and
getting health care practitioners to wash their
hands!
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