Barbara Vickrey, M.D. 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.