Justin Barr

Currently a graduate student in history at Yale University, Barr graduated 2006 from Washington University in St. Louis with an A.B. in history. After spending a summer teaching English in Hanoi, he worked one year for the federal government writing the history of the Special Forces medic and examining its links to physician assistant programs. He is currently at work on a dissertation that will examine the rise of vascular surgery in 20th-century United States, paying particular attention to roles of World War II and Korea. Also a student at the University of Virginia’s medical school, Barr plans to pursue a career interdigitating his passion for medicine and history.