11/01/2024
Member Spotlight - November 2024
Laurel Barr, MD, FACEP
Medical Director, Emergency Department; Adena Fayette Medical Center
Attending Emergency Medicine Physician; Community Health Physicians
Attending Emergency Medicine Physician; Mid-Ohio Emergency Services
Medical Director; Fayette County Emergency Medical Services
Medical Director; Washington Courthouse Fire Department
Medical Director; Delaware Area Career Center EMT Training Program
Highlights
- Chapter Member since 2010
- Serves as a Current Ohio ACEP Board Member
- Ohio ACEP Leadership Development Academy Graduate, 2023
- Ohio ACEP Representative on Ohio Traffic Safety Council
- ACEP Young Physician Section Chair-Elect, 2024-2025
- ACEP Young Physician Section Councillor, 2023-24
- Ohio ACEP Representative to OSMA Annual Meeting and House of Delegates, 2024
- 2023 Ohio ACEP Leadership Development Academy Graduate
- Ohio ACEP Government Affairs Committee Member
- Ohio ACEP Workforce Violence Task Force Member
- Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians
What do you love most about Emergency Medicine?
I can help anyone, at any time, with any health problem. Also, you can’t make this stuff up.
What advice would you give to someone who wants to enter the field of Emergency Medicine?
To save someone’s life is awesome. To do it everyday is amazing. To do it before you’ve had your coffee is Emergency Medicine.
What are some of the ways in which Ohio ACEP has supported you?
Ohio ACEP has given me the opportunity and outlet to advance initiatives that are important to me and to my patients. Through Ohio ACEP, I have participated in educational and legislative initiatives that are important to me, but with the preparation to allow me to make the greatest impact and create positive change in our profession.
Do you have a favorite quote to share?
"If you can keep your head when all about you are loosing theirs and blaming it on you… Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it." -Rudyard Kipling
Fun Fact About You?
I sew Halloween costumes for my kids. Last year my family went as characters from the Zelda video games.
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