Wendy Barr, MD, MPH, MSCE, FAAFP

Wendy B. Barr MD, MPH, MSCE, FAAFP is the Founding Residency Program Director for the Yale Family Medicine Residency Program and inaugural chair of Family Medicine at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital. She is dedicated to growing and strengthening the primary care workforce to equitably improve the health of communities. This guides her work in supporting and expanding family medicine training programs and research to inform how to best train the next generation of comprehensive personal physicians who provide excellent care to all patients.

Dr. Barr is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine MD/MPH program and completed her family medicine residency at the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency in Lawrence, MA. She then went on to complete a research and faculty development fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where she also received a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE). Dr. Barr is a Distinguished Scholar for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) where she is conducting research on GME outcomes and GME program improvement and is the co-Principal Investigator for the Family Medicine Residency Outcome Project (FM-ROP) and the ABFM Annual National Resident Survey (NRS).

Prior to coming to Yale, Dr. Barr was the Residency Program Director, ACGME Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), and Vice President of Clinical Education at the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC) in Lawrence, MA where she helped to lead the family medicine residency program’s transition from a three year to four year curriculum as part of the national ACGME Length of Training Pilot and multiple other residency redesign and innovation initiatives. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) from 2019-2023 including serving as President from 2021-2022 and she served on the Board of Directors for NAPCRG, an international primary care research professional association. She currently serves on multiple national family medicine education and research committees and taskforces. Her research interests include the care of children and pregnant people by family physicians, and developing evidence to support family medicine residency redesign and competency based medical education and board eligibility.