About Barry E. Brenner MD PhD
Compassionate • Clever • Care
For decades, I served as a physician, educator, and mentor — training thousands of medical students and residents in emergency medicine and internal medicine across the country. My philosophy has always been simple: the best medicine happens when a physician truly knows the patient in front of them.
After years in academic leadership, residency program direction, and hospital-based practice, I chose to return to the style of medicine that inspired me from the start — careful thinking, hands-on examination, advanced diagnostics, and unhurried time with each patient.
My practice brings together:
Compassion — the willingness to listen carefully and treat each patient as a person, not a chart
Clever diagnostics — thoughtful evaluation when symptoms are confusing or evidence is limited
Care that is personal, continuous, and based on the physician-patient relationship
I am proud of the physicians I’ve trained over the years, including my own son who is now in emergency medicine residency — a reminder of the values that brought me into medicine and the values that guide this practice.
For more than two decades, I had the privilege of training and mentoring residents in emergency medicine and internal medicine. Teaching was never just about initialed protocols alone; it was about teaching judgment, compassion under pressure, and learning to see the person - and often, the family behind the patient.
This conglomeration of their EKG’s and heartfelt thanks embodies trust, shared purpose, long nights, difficult decisions, and the extraordinary growth that occurs when physicians learn together.
From the heart I will miss training residents.
I am pivoting- translating the same depth of experience, clinical reasoning, and commitment to excellence into the care of my own patients, a practice that I have done before. The mission remains the same: to save lives, when possible, to relieve suffering always, and to help people live longer, healthier, and more meaningful lives - including my family, my patients, and myself.
Gratitude from Emergency Medicine class of 2015-
a reminder why teaching matters