Women Faculty Networking: with Special Guest Michele Barry

Michele Barry

Michele Barry, M.D., FACP, FASTMH, is the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health. A leading voice for advancing women’s leadership in medicine and global health, Barry is the founder of the Gates-funded international nonprofit WomenLift Health. She’s also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Council on Foreign Relations, and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, and a past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She has most recently written on the exclusion of women climate scientists from COP meetings and leadership roles but also has published in the areas of climate’s impact on health, tropical diseases, human and planetary health as well as global and refugee health.

Dr. Daryl Oakes
Moderator

The focus of Dr. Oakes academic work has been the education and training of anesthesiologists at all levels of practice. In 2007 developed an education pathway for Stanford anesthesiology residents to learn perioperative echocardiography, one of the first programs of its kind nationally. Dr. Oakes is a recognized leader in her field and elected member of the Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA), a society of leaders in anesthesiology.

In 2018 Dr. Oakes was appointed Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medical Education and took over leadership of the Stanford Center of Continue Medical Education. Under her leadership the center has greatly expanded its programming and impact, and Stanford CME is now universally regarded as the academic leader in continuing medical education.

Dr. Oakes is a passionate mentor to both trainees and colleagues and has created multiple programs to support physician professional development including, the Stanford CME Physician Leadership Certificate Program, a 6-month cohort-based leadership training for aspiring and developing physician leaders. She also co-founded and chairs the SCA Women in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (WICTA) Special Interest Group and has been recognized for her work supporting women medical professionals with the 2021Women in Medicine (WIM) #SheForShe Award and the 2023 WICTA “SHE LEADS” Award.