Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

R O N A L D J . ( R O N ) B A R R

Address: 19 Camino Lienzo, San Clemente, CA 92673 Email: ronaldbarr@gmail.com ● Phone: H: 949-240-7099 ● C: 949-533-1533

Alma mater: Johns Hopkins University, 1967

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Internship and pathology residency, UC San Diego Dermatology residency and dermatopathology fellowship, UC Irvine Board certification: anatomic pathology, dermatology, and dermatopathology Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Founders Award, American Society of Dermatopathology Nickel’s Award for Teaching, American Society or Dermatopathology Current Employment: Barr Dermatopathology, a division of Newport Harbor Pathology Medical Group, Inc. Professor Emeritus, Dermatology and Pathology, University of California, Irvine. Narrative: What was your most memorable moment from medical school? Peter Zuromskis’ surgical grand rounds presentation. Dean Rogers’ Blaze of Glory graduation party. What highlights have you experienced since graduating in 1970? Two years as a general medical officer assigned to USS Repose and Long Beach California Naval Regional Medical Center; past member and president of the American Board of Dermatology, Chairman Residency Review Committee for Dermatology and also for Dermatopathology. Training dermatology residents and dermatopathology fellows. After completing both pathology and dermatology training and military service, I became full-time faculty in the Department of Dermatology, University of California Irvine. With the exception of 1986-7 when I became chairman of dermatology at the University of California, Davis (an expensive sabbatical !!), I remained at Irvine for 30 years Spouse or Partner’s Name: Ulla E. Barr Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: Children: Anna Barr, Jessica Barr, Sara Bert Grandchildren: Henrik Bert

“graduating” in 2006 as full professor now emeritus. In 2006, I joined three of my dermatopathology residents and two others in private practice limited to dermatopathology. During my university years, I primarily focused on dermatopathology but also had adult and pediatric clinics and ward consultations. I also was heavily involved in numerous organizations, boards, etc. I now have cut back to three days a week primarily doing consults and second opinions on selected cases. Up until this past October, we were located at a small hospital in Laguna Beach and are now in a self-standing office in Irvine. I married Ulla in 1973 who I had met during my six months in Sweden on a Commonwealth Scholarship during my junior-senior year at Hopkins. Ulla was a school teacher in Sweden, but went on to get a B.A. in the arts at UC Irvine and a masters in fine arts at Cal State Long Beach. We have three daughters and a grandson. We have lived in Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel, Davis, and San Clemente recently moving to a 55-plus community (single- story, no stairs) also in San Clemente. I still enjoy bird hunting, our desert get-away home, working with a hunting dog, travel, and spending time with the family. Scary, how fast the time has flown. 50 years since graduation!! Just doesn’t seem that long ago.

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