Are you interested in a career in medicine? LSA alum Dr. Tyler Barrett joins us to help you think about choosing a healthcare career and how to align personal interests and passions with different healthcare professions. He’ll also share his experience and insights on what it means to be a physician these days and how he finds long-term career enjoyment in the field. He will also share his tips for how best to translate your undergraduate experience onto paper for a future medical school application. If you’re looking for a medicine-adjacent career, Dr. Barrett will also offer expertise and learnings into the areas of administration, research, publishing, and private consulting.
About Dr. Tyler Barrett
Dr. Tyler W. Barrett serves as a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Compliance at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Barrett’s clinical goals are optimizing efficient and appropriate patient care, quality improvement, opioid stewardship, opioid dependence treatment, multidisciplinary patient care pathways, and reimbursement related issues. His research goals are to improve the emergency department (ED) treatment of patients with opioid use disorder, increase use of non-opioid analgesia, management of venous thromboembolism, and risk stratification of ED patients with atrial fibrillation.
He co-chairs the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Controlled Substances Quality Oversight Committee and chairs the Vanderbilt Committee on Opioid Monitoring and Stewardship. He was supported as principal investigator by a NHLBI K23 award. Dr. Barrett is currently funded through federal and state grants related to opioid use disorder treatment and educating prescribers on optimal opioid stewardship. Dr. Barrett serves as an Emergency Medicine Team Physician for the Nashville Predators, served on the Nashville Youth Hockey League Board of Directors from 2014-2022, and is actively involved in promoting education about the dangers of opioids among student-athletes. He authored the USA Hockey Player Safety Program “Opioid Fact Check” and “E-cigarette “Vaping” Fact Check” educational materials.
You should attend this session if you are:
An undergraduate U-M LSA student
-Interested in white coat medicine, and sub-specialities like emergency medicine or opioid treatments
-Thinking about applying to medical school after you graduate from LSA
-Looking for other career paths within healthcare and medicine like medical consulting
What you’ll gain by attending:
-Make a valuable connection with a successful LSA alum ready to help you navigate the medical school application process
-Get ideas for how to build a career in medicine outside of traditional white coat medicine
-Gain tips and tricks for building communities and networks past your LSA degree
RSVP now to be a part of the conversation.
About Dr. Tyler Barrett
Dr. Tyler W. Barrett serves as a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Compliance at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Barrett’s clinical goals are optimizing efficient and appropriate patient care, quality improvement, opioid stewardship, opioid dependence treatment, multidisciplinary patient care pathways, and reimbursement related issues. His research goals are to improve the emergency department (ED) treatment of patients with opioid use disorder, increase use of non-opioid analgesia, management of venous thromboembolism, and risk stratification of ED patients with atrial fibrillation.
He co-chairs the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Controlled Substances Quality Oversight Committee and chairs the Vanderbilt Committee on Opioid Monitoring and Stewardship. He was supported as principal investigator by a NHLBI K23 award. Dr. Barrett is currently funded through federal and state grants related to opioid use disorder treatment and educating prescribers on optimal opioid stewardship. Dr. Barrett serves as an Emergency Medicine Team Physician for the Nashville Predators, served on the Nashville Youth Hockey League Board of Directors from 2014-2022, and is actively involved in promoting education about the dangers of opioids among student-athletes. He authored the USA Hockey Player Safety Program “Opioid Fact Check” and “E-cigarette “Vaping” Fact Check” educational materials.
You should attend this session if you are:
An undergraduate U-M LSA student
-Interested in white coat medicine, and sub-specialities like emergency medicine or opioid treatments
-Thinking about applying to medical school after you graduate from LSA
-Looking for other career paths within healthcare and medicine like medical consulting
What you’ll gain by attending:
-Make a valuable connection with a successful LSA alum ready to help you navigate the medical school application process
-Get ideas for how to build a career in medicine outside of traditional white coat medicine
-Gain tips and tricks for building communities and networks past your LSA degree
RSVP now to be a part of the conversation.
Building: | LSA Building |
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Event Type: | Social / Informal Gathering |
Tags: | All Majors Welcome, Alum Connections, Alumni, Health Administration, Healthcare, Lsa Opportunity Hub, Medicine, Open To All Majors, Pre Med, The College Of Literature, Science, And The Arts |
Source: | Happening @ Michigan from LSA Opportunity Hub |