Board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, Dr. Mark Barrett has been a hospitalist at Children’s for more than five years. An active member of Children’s medical staff, Dr. Barrett is a member of the Antimicrobial Utilization Team and the Children’s Asthma Care committee. He was awarded Children’s Hospital’s Board of Trustees Meritorious Service Award for Education in 2006 for giving semi-annual nursing lectures on general pediatric topics and updating resident education.

Dr. Barrett also served in the United States Peace Corps as a Peace Corps volunteer, where he was a mathematics teacher and department head of Luzdi Secondary School and a technical and logistics coordinator providing teacher training in Malawi, Africa. Dr. Barrett still maintains strong ties with Malawi and the village of Ludzi, visiting regularly. He is currently raising money to build an orphanage/nursery school
at Ludzi.

A graduate of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, Dr. Barrett completed his pediatric residency at UCSF-Fresno. He also earned a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis reported on Epidemiology of AIDS-related Coccidioidomycosis in California. Following his pediatric medical training, Dr. Barrett joined Children’s Hospital Central California as a pediatric hospitalist. He also serves in the Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Emergency Department.