Douglas J. Barrett, M.D., is Senior Vice President for Health Affairs at the University of Florida. He is responsible for overseeing UF’s Health Science Center which consists of the Colleges of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine, the UF/Shands Cancer Center, the McKnight Brain Institute, and the UF Aging Institute.

Dr. Barrett received his M.D. degree in 1974 from the University of South Florida in Tampa. After a pediatric internship training at Tampa General Hospital and All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, he completed his pediatric residency at SUNY/Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York. After subspecialty and research fellowship training in pediatric immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, he served as a clinical instructor at UCSF until 1980.

Dr. Barrett joined the University of Florida in 1980 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics’ Division of Infectious Diseases/Immunology. He was promoted to Associate Professor and Division Chief in 1987 and Professor of Microbiology and Pathology in 1991. Also in 1991, Dr. Barrett accepted the position of Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Nemours Eminent Scholar at UF. Under his leadership, the Department of Pediatrics was a consistent winner of medical student teaching awards and enjoyed a 10-fold increase in NIH research funding. In 2002, Dr. Barrett was appointed as Vice President for Health Affairs for the University of Florida and in 2004, was promoted to Senior Vice President, Health Affairs.

Dr. Barrett is active in the Association of Academic Health Centers, American Association of Medical Colleges, American Board of Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Society for Pediatric Research. He serves on the editorial board for Contemporary Pediatrics and is a reviewer for multiple journals. He is the author or co-author of three books, several book chapters and more than 110 journal articles, with particular interest in immunodeficiency disease and transplantation.