Ruth Barron
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Barron is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and is the Director of Adult Outpatient Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Barron has a longstanding interest in Disaster Psychiatry and Trauma. She was a member of the first American Red Cross mental health team for Hurricane Hugo in the Caribbean in 1989. She was then a founder of the Disaster Mental Health Service nationally in the American Red Cross disaster relief in the early 1990’s. She has worked as an investigator and an educator for Physicians for Human Rights in Soviet Georgia (1989) and in Kosovo (1998-2001). She has served as a representative for the American Red Cross at international meetings and has consulted to the American Red Cross on the Hurricane Katrina mental health effort. Dr. Barron is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed her residency in psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Mailman Research Center at McLean Hospital.
Dr. Barron is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and is the Director of Adult Outpatient Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Barron has a longstanding interest in Disaster Psychiatry and Trauma. She was a member of the first American Red Cross mental health team for Hurricane Hugo in the Caribbean in 1989. She was then a founder of the Disaster Mental Health Service nationally in the American Red Cross disaster relief in the early 1990’s. She has worked as an investigator and an educator for Physicians for Human Rights in Soviet Georgia (1989) and in Kosovo (1998-2001). She has served as a representative for the American Red Cross at international meetings and has consulted to the American Red Cross on the Hurricane Katrina mental health effort. Dr. Barron is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed her residency in psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Mailman Research Center at McLean Hospital.
