Danielle Barber, MD, PhD
Areas of expertise: Perinatal brain injury, Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, Brain injury after cardiac arrest, Developmental delays
Locations: Main Building, Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care
About Danielle Barber, MD, PhD
Titles
Attending Physician
Awards and Honors
- 2012, cum laude, Yale University School of Medicine
- 2012, MD-PhD Alumni Award, Yale University School of Medicine
- 2010, Fellows Award for Research Excellence, National Institutes of Health
- 2009-2011, Ruth Kirschstein Individual National Research Service Award for Predoctoral MD-PhD Fellows (F30 DA 024931), PI Danielle Barber
- 2009, Best Poster Award in Systems Neuroscience, Winter Conference on Brain Research
- 2008, NIMH travel award, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) Annual Meeting
- 2003, Award for Excellence in Research in Neuroscience, MIT
- 2002, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives Internship, which allowed me to travel to Trieste, Italy and work in the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Lithography at ELETTRA
- 2002, First Prize, The S. Klein Prize for Scientific and Technical Writing
- 2002, Excellent Academic Record Award, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, MIT
Leadership and Memberships
Memberships in Professional Organizations
2015-present, American Academy of Neurology
2014-present, American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
2012-present, American Academy of Pediatrics
2009-present, American Physician Scientists Association
Education & training
Graduate Degree
PhD - Yale University, New Haven, CT
Medical Degree
MD - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Residency
General Pediatrics - The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Neurology and Child Neurology - The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Fellowship
Research Fellow - The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Publications
Publications
2013
Cruz FC, Koya E, Guez-Barber DH, Bossert JM, Lupica CR, Shaham Y, Hope BT. New technologies for examining the role of neuronal ensembles in drug addiction and fear. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2013 Nov; 14(11):743-54. PMID: 24088811
Fanous S, Guez-Barber DH, Goldart EM, Schrama R, Theberge FR, Shaham Y, Hope BT. Unique gene alterations are induced in FACS-purified Fos-positive neurons activated during cue-induced relapse to heroin-seeking. Journal of Neurochemistry 2013 Jan; 124(1):100-8. PMID 23113797
2012
Guez-Barber D, Fanous S, Harvey BK, Zhang Y, Becker KG, Picciotto MR, Hope BT. FACS purification of immunolabeled cell types from adult rat brain. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2012 Jan 15; 203(1):10-8. PMID: 21911005
2011
Guez-Barber D, Fanous S, Golden SA, Schrama R, Koya E, Stern AL, Bossert JM, Harvey BK, Picciotto MR, Hope BT. FACS identifies unique cocaine-induced gene regulation in selectively activated adult striatal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience 2011 Mar 16; 31(11):4251-9. PMID: 21411666
2009
Koya E, Golden SA, Harvey BK, Guez-Barber DH, Berkow A, Simmons DE, Bossert JM, Nair SG, Uejima JL, Marin MT, Mitchell TB, Farquhar D, Ghosh SC, Mattson BJ, Hope BT. Targeted disruption of cocaine-activated nucleus accumbens neurons prevents context-specific sensitization. Nature Neuroscience 2009 Aug;12(8):1069-1073. PMID: 19620976
2005
Abelson JF, Kwan KY, O’Roak BJ, Baek DY, Stillman AA, Morgan TM, Matthews CA, Pauls DL, Rasin MR, Gunel M, Davis NR, Ercan-Sencicek AG, Guez DH, Spertus JA, Leckman JF, Dure LS 4th, Kurlan R, Singer HS, Gilbert DL, Farhi A, Louvi A, Lifton RP, Sestan N, State MW. Sequence variants in SLITRK1 are associated with Tourette’s syndrome. Science. 2005 Oct 14;310(5746):317-20. PMID: 16224024
Pooler AM, Guez DH, Benedictus R, Wurtman RJ. Uridine enhances neurite outgrowth in nerve growth factor-differentiated PC12. Neuroscience. 2005;134(1):207-14. PMID: 15939540
Lectures by Invitation
2019
Guez-Barber DH, Sex Differences of Perinatal Brain Injury, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Child Neurology Grand Rounds, June 6, 2019.
Guez-Barber DH, McGuire J, The Natural History of Lyme Related Facial Palsy and the Effects of Steroid Use in Children, University of Pennsylvania Neurology Grand Rounds, May 22, 2019.
2017
Guez-Barber DH, Harding B, Multidisciplinary Morbidity and Mortality Conference, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Child Neurology Grand Rounds, December 7, 2017.
Books
2008
Junior editor for USMLE Step 1 Review Book: Le T, Krause K, Senior Editors. First Aid Basic Sciences – General Principles. New York: McGraw-Hill, December 2008.
Junior editor for USMLE Step 1 Review Book: Le T, Krause K, Senior Editors. First Aid Basic Sciences – Organ Systems. New York: McGraw-Hill, December 2008.