Danielle Guez Barber, MD PhD is an Assistant Professor in Child Neurology at the University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Dr. Barber graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 with a BSc in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. She earned her MD PhD from Yale Medical School cum laude in 2012. Through the Graduate Partnerships Program, she did her PhD lab work at the National Institute on Drug Abuse under Dr. Bruce Hope, partnering with Dr. Marina Picciotto’s lab at Yale. Dr. Barber completed residency training in Pediatrics and Child Neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She completed post-doctoral training in the lab of Dr. Amelia Eisch at CHOP/Penn. Dr. Barber moved to Colorado in 2024 to launch her laboratory. Her research and clinical work focus on perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), which can lead to cerebral palsy and other sequelae. Her lab focuses on sex differences in the brain immune response to hypoxia-ischemia. She is leading the building of an HIE clinical and community registry, utilizing CPRN’s partnership with Hope for HIE. Dr. Barber is married and has 3 children – one of whom had HIE and has CP – and all 3 of whom love skiing!
