Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Springfield, MA, United States
Kathaleen Barker, MD, Assistant Professor of OB/GYN at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate, is the Medical Director for Informatics for Women's Health and the Associate Director of Obstetrics at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. Barker went to medical school at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and completed her OB/GYN residency at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.
As an obstetrician with extensive informatics experience, she is passionate about utilizing patient care technologies to improve the care delivered to birthing people. In her seven years of experience as part of the obstetrical leadership team she has led multiple quality improvement projects including those designed to improve induction of labor, postpartum hemorrhage, electronic medical record optimization and most recently, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. In her five years of experience as medical director of informatics for women’s health she has seen firsthand the ways that technology can help enhance the overall care provided to a patient. In late 2020 as the COVID-19 Pandemic continued, she brought a remote patient monitoring and prenatal education program to her institution to improve the care provided via telehealth. Her experiences help to navigate the clinical aspects of a new obstetrics care modality as well as the technical integration into workflows.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
11:10 AM – 11:30 AM