Kim Barrett

Kim Elaine Barrett is a research physiologist, specialising in digestive disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease. She was Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Dean of the Graduate Division at University of California, San Diego before moving to her current position as Vice Dean for Research and Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology in the School of Medicine at University of California, Davis in 2021. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physiology (2016–2022 and 2023-present), and is a Past-President of the American Physiological Society. and sole author of Gastrointestinal Physiology, also published by McGraw-Hill. Other highly-cited publications include:

Awards She has received numerous honours for her research, teaching, mentoring and service activities. For example, she received the degree of Doctor of Medical Science, honoris causa, from Queen's University Belfast in 2004, and the Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Scientist and Mentor Award from the American Physiological Society in 2012. She was also the 2015 Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecturer of The Physiological Society. In 2021, she received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Basic Science from the American Gastroenterological Association. She was also recognized in 2022 as an Honorary Fellow of The Physiological Society.