Rebecca Barron, MD, MPH

Dr. Rebecca Barron is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate and an attending emergency physician at Baystate Health in Springfield, MA. She graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she obtained her medical and master of public health degrees. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical of Brown University. As a fellow, she also completed a Post-Master's Certificate in Evidence-Based Teaching in the Health Professions through Johns Hopkins University. She has extensive clinical, education, and research experience in acute sexual assault, including implementing an insitutional sexual assault response team, developing and revising institutional and statewide acute sexual assault protocols, developing and delivering educational content on this topic to medical students and residents, and conducting quantitative and qualitative research aimed at improving care for this patient population. More broadly, Dr. Barron is interested in women's health, public health, and medical education, serving as an Early Clinical Learning small group leader in UMass-Chan Medical school's PURCH track.