Barbara Barlow

Barbara Barlow is an American pediatric surgeon who was the first woman to train in that specialty at Babies Hospital, present-day Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. She has also reduced the amount of injuries for inner-city children through her research and efforts to educate the public on prevention of accidents.

Early life and education

Barlow was born in a rural town in Pennsylvania in 1938. Her mother returned to school and obtained a degree in psychology in 1954 after her father's death in order to become a guidance counselor and assistant professor and support Barlow and her sister. From her mother, Barlow learned the importance of and found the inspiration to work hard in life. Barlow went on to study psychology at Vassar College in New York and then attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and earned her M.D. degree in 1967. She then received a training fellowship at Babies Hospital Columbia University Medical Center, where she was the first woman to ever train in pediatric surgery there. Also, the campaign employed nurses to go and check on children who were reported to have fallen. Since 1991, Harlem has gotten 40 plus new playgrounds and numerous new after-school activities are offered through community organizations. This program helps promote safe ways for children when playing outside. The program also brings more medical professionals into an area where injury is prone in order to reduce the rates of injury. "Epidemiology of bone fracture across the age span in blacks and whites." "A comparative analysis of serious injury and illness among homeless and housed low income residents of New York City." "Motor vehicle injury, mortality, and hospital charges by strength of graduated driver licensing laws in 36 States." "Race and ethnic differences in a multicenter study of home safety with vouchers redeemable for free safety devices." "Motor vehicle occupant injury and related hospital expenditures in children aged 3 years to 8 years covered versus uncovered by booster seat legislation." "Forging new frontiers." "National injury-related hospitalizations in children: public versus private expenditures across preventable injury mechanisms." "Twenty-year trends in fatal injuries to very young children: the persistence of racial disparities." "Improving access to comprehensive injury risk assessment and risk factor reduction in older adult populations." "A national program for injury prevention in children and adolescents: the injury free coalition for kids." "Preventing injury and injury-related disability in children and adolescents." "Community childhood injury surveillance: an emergency department-based model." "A benefit-cost analysis of the Harlem hospital injury prevention program." "Impact of a cancer screening program on breast cancer stage at diagnosis in a medically underserved urban community."