Charles E. Barr

Dr. Charlie Barr has been Sr. Medical Consultant for Sophic Alliance since 2018. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine with 18 years experience in clinical practice and clinical research at academic medical centers (including Veterans Administration Medical Centers and private teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of North Dakota, Harvard Medical School and Michigan State University). Dr. Barr has 18 years experience in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry at Pharmacia/Pfizer, Roche and Genentech.

He had progressive leadership roles overseeing cross-portfolio and therapeutic area groups including clinical development, medical affairs, clinical trials, health economics and outcomes research, biostatistics, epidemiology and data science.

Dr. Barr has a B.S. in Biophysics (chemistry minor) from Pacific Union College, and the MD and MPH in Nutrition from Loma Linda University. He completed Internal Medicine Residency at the University of North Dakota. He completed an NIH/NLM Research Fellow in Medical Informatics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Decision Systems Group, where his research focused on developing the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). He also pursued doctoral studies at Harvard School of Public Health in the Biostatistics Department (for a major in biomedical computing, with minors in biostatistics and health policy and management). His studies included methods for clinical decision support, and knowledge synthesis and management (including AI, expert systems, decision analysis and meta-analysis of clinical trials).