Barbara Cockrill

Dr. Barbara A. Cockrill Gootkind is a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is also the Harold Amos Academy Associate Professor and the Associate Director of the Academy Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Medical School.

She received her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and then completed a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then completed two fellowships: one in pulmonary and critical care at the University of Washington Medical Center and the other at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is board certified in critical care medicine, internal medicine and pulmonary disease.

Dr. Cockrill’s clinical interests include exercise physiology, high risk obstetrics and pulmonary vascular disease. She has authored over 30 publications, in addition to the medical textbook Principles of Pulmonary Medicine, 6th Edition, and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the British Heart Foundation. She was named to the annual list of the “Best Doctors in America” and received the HMS Donald O’Hara Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Specialties

• Pulmonary and Critical Care

Clinical Interests

• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Right Heart Failure

Education

Medical School

• University of Washington School of Medicine, 1982 - 1986

Residency

• Massachusetts General Hospital*, 1986 - 1989

Board Certifications

• Internal Medicine, 1989

Fellowships

• University of Washington Hospitals, 1989 - 1990
• Massachusetts General Hospital*, 1990 - 1992