Dr. Robyn Barst MD

Council Member Biography

Robyn J Barst, MD was Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics (in Medicine) at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. She was Director of the New York-Presbyterian Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Center 1982-2008. She serves on the Board of Trustees, the Scientific Leadership Committee (past chair) and the Corporate Committee of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. Dr. Barst's basic/clinical research has focused extensively on PH in children and adults. She has published numerous research papers in prestigious journals and books, and edited the recently released Wiley Ltd. book - Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - Diagnosis and Evidence Based Treatment. Since leaving Columbia in 2008, she remains an advisor to pharmaceutical companies pursuing clinical drug development for PH. She currently is actively working with 8 companies in addition to active consulting for the FDA and EMEA regarding these new INDs, NDAs and pediatric PH drug development. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

1987 - 2008

Director, NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN & COLUMBIA MEDICAL CENTER

1987 - 2008

Professor of Pediatrics , COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS