Patient Care Bio
Steve Barnett, MD, was born in Brooklyn, grew up in New Jersey, went to college in Philadelphia, attended medical school in New Jersey and his residency in Wisconsin. He came to Rochester for the family systems medicine fellowship and stayed in the area doing research, locum tenens family medicine and rural emergency department work.
He joined the faculty in 2002 in the research division. His research, teaching and clinical interests include healthcare across languages and cultures, healthcare system access for people who are deaf, and physician-patient communication. He is medical director of Strong Connections, the University of Rochester Medical Center's Telehealth Sign Language Interpreter Program. Dr. Barnett is also the Associate Director of the CDC-funded Rochester Prevention Research Center: National Center for Deaf Health Research
| Outstanding Poster Award: Overall Impact | CDC Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Meeting | St Louis, MO |
2012 |
| Excellence Award (for Mentoring and Support of Medical Students) | Department of Family Medicine | University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
2010 |
| Winner | Poster Contest Commemorating the National Health Interview Survey's 50th anniversary | CDC National Center for Health Statistics | Hyattsville, MD |
2007 |
| Frank W. Lovejoy M.D. Preceptorship in Family Medicine | Department of Family Medicine, University of Rochester | Rochester, NY |
2004 |
| Family Medicine Faculty Teaching Award | Family Medicine Residency, Department of Family Medicine | University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
2003 |
| Best Seminar, STFM Northeast Region Meeting | Society of Teachers of Family Medicine | Philadelphia, PA |
2000 |
