Dr. Barton is a clinician and educator whose work has primarily focused on global health and HIV. She has over 20 years of experience providing care for people living with HIV, from infants to young adulthood. Her research has focused on optimizing antiretroviral treatment  and improving long-term outcomes for those with chronic HIV infection. In addition to patient care, she has trained physicians and other healthcare workers in in several settings worldwide including Haiti, South Africa, Rwanda, and Laos, and is currently involved with global health initiatives with the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.  Beyond HIV medicine, she is certified in Tropical Medicine and Travel Health, and is exploring how childhood diseases, and particularly zoonoses, are changing by using a OneHealth approach to examine how globalization, climate change, and societal shifts impact animal and human pathogens.  Her clinical time in Seattle is spent on the inpatient infectious diseases consult service and in the  general ID outpatient clinic and Virology clinic. Outside of work, she enjoys camping, poking around flea markets, spending time with her numerous pets,  and collecting dolls and other cool vintage things.