Ian Barbash

Ian Barbash, MD MS is a practicing critical care physician, clinical leader, and writer. Ian graduated from Williams College and Harvard Medical School before completing residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and fellowship in Pittsburgh, where he remains on faculty and lives with his wife and four children.

With a career spanning clinical care, leadership, academic research, and physician wellbeing, Ian brings a unique perspective to storytelling in medicine. Ian’s published academic writing comprises critical care health services research and narrative medicine, which has appeared in journals including JAMA, NEJM Catalyst, and Annals of Internal Medicine.

As a survivor of the intensive care unit himself, Ian’s work is also informed by his personal understanding of critical illness and its aftermath. He writes and speaks about this experience to promote empathy for both healthcare professionals and the people they serve.