Chief, Surveillance and Epidemiology Section, Tuberculosis Control Branch
California Department of Public Health
Pennan Barry is a Medical Officer and Chief of Surveillance and Epidemiology for the Tuberculosis Control Branch in the California Department of Public Health where he also is the Lead MD for the California MDR TB Consult Service. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF where he serves as attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. He sees patients at the San Francisco TB clinic.
He received his MD, MPH, and clinical training in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University before serving as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at UCSF.