Barbara G. Vickrey, MD, MPH
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Neurology
University of California, Los Angeles

Barbara Vickrey is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also Associate Director for Research of the Southwest VA Parkinson's Disease Research, Education, and Clinical Center and has been a consultant for over 15 years in the Health Program at the Santa Monica-based RAND Corporation, a non-profit research institute focusing on research to inform public policy.

Dr. Vickrey began mentoring physician health services research fellows in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA in the early 1990s. In addition to mentoring researchers in her own field, as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, she has been active in career mentorship of junior faculty in her department of over 100 full-time faculty. Several years ago, she developed and began leading workshops for junior faculty on "demystifying the academic advancement process," developing individualized tools for tracking academic milestones, presenting relevant university policies in digestible form, and sharing a collection of lore and pragmatic advice from senior faculty. she has also been interested in career issues that are particularly germane to women in academic medicine.

The focus of Dr. Vickrey's research scholarship is re-engineering healthcare delivery systems to improve the quality of care for neurologic conditions. She received an MD from Duke University and an MPH from the UCLA School of Public Health. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at UCLA. She led a multi-disciplinary team in the design and testing via a randomized controlled trial of a re-engineered model of dementia care delivery, which was found to improve quality and outcomes. Dr. Vickrey has published over 80 peer-reviewed original research papers, has received funding from federal and state agencies and from non-profit foundations. In 1998, she was awarded the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research (now AcademyHealth), a major national award in health services research.