April Barbour is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Dr. Barbour joined the George Washington (GW) Medical Faculty Associates in October 2003, after relocating from Emory University. She quickly became involved in resident education and became associate program director of the Primary Care Residency in 2004 and program director in 2005. She continues to hold that position and is very involved in ambulatory curricular development for the Internal Medicine and Primary Care Residency programs. In 2008, she became the division director for general internal medicine. This division continues to grow and now has more than 30 internists and midlevel providers who provide primary care to more than 40,000 patients.
Training
Residency:
- Emory University, 1992-1995
Expertise
- Graduate medical education
- High value cost conscious care
- Primary care
Research
- Residents as Young Educators (RAYES) evaluating a longitudinal curriculum
- Transition from pediatrics to adult medicine practices
- High Value Cost Conscious Care https://hvc.acponline.org/curriculum.html
Community Service
- Internist for Washington Mystics
- Science fair judge, Arlington County Schools
- Pediatric to Adult Transition: A Quality Improvement: Model for Primary Care. Margaret McManus, MHS, Patience White, MD, MA, April Barbour, MD, Billie Downing, MD, Kirsten Hawkins, MD, MPH, Nathalie Quion, MD, MPH, Lisa Tuchman, MD, W. Carl Cooley, MD,Jeanne W. McAllister, BSN, MS, MHA (submitted)
- Ethnicity-specific pharmacogenetics: the case of warfarin in African Americans.
- Hernandez W1, Gamazon ER1, Aquino-Michaels K1, Patel S2, O'Brien TJ3, Harralson AF4, Kittles RA5, Barbour A6, Tuck M7, McIntosh SD8, Douglas JN7, Nicolae D1, Cavallari LH2, Perera MA1.
- First report of warfarin dose requirements in patients possessing the CYP2C9*12 allele.
- O'Brien TJ1, Kidd RS, Richard CA, Ha NH, Witcher P, Tran LV, Barbour A, Tuck M, McIntosh SD, Douglas JN, Harralson AF