Dr. Barnes is Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He is the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and an attending physician in the UC Davis Medical Center’s Emergency Department, inland northern California’s only level-1 trauma center. Dr. Barnes’ academic interests include education, quality and safety, resuscitation, and simulation. He chairs the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s Education Committee, leads the Emergency Medicine residency program’s quality and safety curriculum, and mentors residents and students conducting quality improvement projects.

Dr. Barnes is the physician lead for a bold initiative to bring AHRQ's TeamSTEPPS program to all physicians, nurses, and staff in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Barnes earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, OR and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Medical Center.

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