Publications

• Decompression Illness in Divers, A Review of the Literature, Barratt and others
• Decompression Sickness in Miskito Indian Lobster Divers: A Review of 229 Cases. BARRATT and others.
• AMA Journal of Ethics. Preventing False Brain Death Diagnoses. Fourcand and BARRATT
• Neurology Milestones 2.0. Neurology. 2022 Mar 1;98(9):366-372
• Entrustable professional activities--A useful concept for neurology education. Neurology 2018;90:1-7.
• AAMC Award-Winning Publication--EEG and Sleep--MedEdPORTAL Editor’s Choice Special Distinction

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Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

National Award-Winning Neurologist and Sleep Medicine Physician. Board-Certified in Neurology. Fellowship Trained in Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine. Dr. Barratt has served as an expert witness for neurology, sleep medicine, and diving medicine cases. Her trial testimony experience includes issues pertaining to capacity and TBI (traumatic brain injury/concussion). Dr. Diana Barratt is a neurology educator. She directed a neurosciences course and a neurology clerkship for medical students. Over the course of 10 years, she trained 800 medical students. She went on to direct a neurology residency program and received local and national awards for teaching and innovation. EDUCATION: University of Florida College of Medicine. Doctor of Medicine Harvard School of Public Health. Master of Public Health University of Florida College of Engineering. Bachelor of Science NATIONAL AWARDS: American Academy of Neurology Clerkship Director Teaching Award American Academy of Neurology Clerkship Director Innovation Award American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Faculty Innovation Award Association of American Medical College’s MedEdPORTAL Editor’s Choice Special Distinction for an EEG and Sleep publication American Academy of Neurology Teacher Recognition Award International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation, Best Poster Award LOCAL AWARDS: Florida Atlantic University, Outstanding Clinical Teacher in a Selective Florida International University Top Scholar Award, Office of the Provost Florida International University, Clerkship of the Year, Finalist PEER REVIEW ACTIVITIES: Continuum Neurology Issue on Sleep Neurology. Neurology. The most widely read and highly cited peer-reviewed neurology journal. Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance. American Academy of Neurology, Science Committee, Research Methodology and Education Section. NATIONAL COMMITTEES/WORK GROUPS American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Exam Question Writing Committee Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Neurology Milestones Committee 2.0 American Academy of Neurology Entrustable Professional Activities Work Group Dr. Barratt completed a two-year fellowship in hyperbaric and diving medicine at LSU in New Orleans; she joined the faculty after graduation. She received injured saturation divers from the Gulf of Mexico and sport divers from Divers Alert Network. She performed fitness to dive evaluations and cared for patients with chronic non-healing wounds, invasive fungal infections, and carbon monoxide poisoning. Dr. Barratt trained residents and fellows in hyperbaric medicine and lectured in Fitness to Dive Courses. Bibliography: Dewey JJ, Chiota-McCollum N, Barratt D, Edgar L, Gutmann L, Shelgikar AV, Ward J, Kilgore SM; Neurology Milestones 2.0 Work Group. Introducing the Neurology Milestones 2.0. Neurology. 2022 Mar 1;98(9):366-372. Fourcand F, Barratt DM. How Educators Can Help Prevent False Brain Death Diagnoses. AMA J Ethics. 2020 Garland MM, Gutierrez A, Barratt DM. Peripheral neuropathy of the extremity after hyperbaric exposure. 2012. Aviat Space Environ Med Barratt and others. Decompression Sickness in Miskito Indian Lobster Divers. 2004. Aviat Space Environ Med Barratt and others. Decompression Illness in Divers—A review of the literature. Neurologist. 2002 Madatic J, Barratt D, and others. Neurological Injury in a professional commercial diver: Controversies in the treatment of Type II decompression of the spinal cord. Poster at the UHMS Annual Meeting; 2005 Kelly MK, Barratt DM, Van Meter K. Reversal on MRI of a thoracic cord lesion in a professional diver with decompression sickness: A case report. Poster at the UHMS Annual Meeting; 2004 Barratt and others. Magnetic resonance imaging in decompression illness. Poster session presented at: the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting; 2002