Barry is currently the Chief Clinical Innovation Officer and Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Hartford HealthCare (HHC) as well as leader of “HHC’s Center for AI Innovation in Healthcare”, where he also practices as a Vascular and Interventional Radiologist and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He has held numerous leadership positions at HHC including Chief Imaging Informatics Officer, leading the visioning and development of a globally recognized “Enterprise Imaging Platform”; Vice Chair of Radiology; Chief of Cardiovascular MRI & CT; and Director of the Advanced Imaging and Quantitative Analysis Core Laboratory.
He is committed to advancing the frontier of personalized coordinated patient care, exploring opportunities at the intersect of innovative technologies, advanced analytics, and medical informatics to impact healthcare delivery and transformation. His focus is on building a world class differentiated multistakeholder innovation ecosystem to accelerate the validation and clinical integration of promising early to mid-stage digital healthcare startups. Recognizing artificial intelligence (AI) as the fuel for in healthcare innovation, he has been developing an enterprise capability to unlock its transformative power in a safe and trustworthy way.
Barry received his post graduate medical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he did his Radiology residency, served as Chief Resident, and completed fellowships in MRI and Vascular & Interventional Radiology. He received his medical degree from the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa. Barry is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Diagnostic Radiology and Vascular and Interventional Radiology and is a fellow of both the Society of Interventional Radiology and American College of Radiology. He is a recognized expert and innovator in Cardiovascular MRI and CT and is regarded as one of the pioneers in the development, and clinical paradigm shift, from Invasive Angiography to Magnetic Resonance Angiography.
