Dr. C. Brent Barrett, HCLD is the Chief Laboratory Director at Boston IVF, where he oversees all aspects of our Embryology and Andrology laboratories.
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Dr. C. Brent Barrett, HCLD, is the Chief Laboratory Director for Boston IVF and oversees Boston IVF labs in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Indiana and Arizona.
He completed M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at Boston College where his research focused on mammalian reproductive biology. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute for 3 ½ years, he received a grant from the National Institutes of Health for research on the molecular regulation of egg development.
In 1992, he came to Boston IVF and has been a technical supervisor in the Andrology, Embryology and Endocrine labs, the ISO 9001 Quality Manager, the Waltham Lab Director and, in 2016, was promoted to the position of Chief Laboratory Director.
Dr. Barrett is currently a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School, has authored numerous papers and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals and spoken at many national and international conferences and consults as an expert in Laboratory Quality and Embryology.
Recent Selected Publications 1. Saillant NN, Kornblith LZ, Moore H, Barrett C, Schreiber MA, Cotton BA, Neal MD, Makar R, Cap AP. The National Blood Shortage-An Impetus for Change. Ann Surg. 2022 04 01; 275(4):641-643. PMID: 35081570; PMCID: PMC9055632 2. Biondi B, Barrett CB, Mazzocchi M, Ando A, Harvey D, Mallory M. Journal submissions, review and editorial decision patterns during initial COVID-19 restrictions. Food Policy. 2021 Dec; 105:102167. PMID: 34703074; PMCID: PMC8530540 3. Browne C, Matteson DS, McBride L, Hu L, Liu Y, Sun Y, Wen J, Barrett CB. Multivariate random forest prediction of poverty and malnutrition prevalence. PLoS One. 2021; 16(9):e0255519. PMID: 34495951; PMCID: PMC8425567 4. Barrett CB. On design-based empirical research and its interpretation and ethics in sustainability science. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 07 20; 118(29). PMID: 34253609; PMCID: PMC8307848 5. Fiorella KJ, Bageant ER, Schwartz NB, Thilsted SH, Barrett CB. Fishers' response to temperature change reveals the importance of integrating human behavior in climate change analysis. Sci Adv. 2021 04; 7(18). PMID: 33931440; PMCID: PMC8087411 6. Herrero M, Thornton PK, Mason-D'Croz D, Palmer J, Bodirsky BL, Pradhan P, Barrett CB, Benton TG, Hall A, Pikaar I, Bogard JR, Bonnett GD, Bryan BA, Campbell BM, Christensen S, Clark M, Fanzo J, Godde CM, Jarvis A, Loboguerrero AM, Mathys A, McIntyre CL, Naylor RL, Nelson R, Obersteiner M, Parodi A, Popp A, Ricketts K, Smith P, Valin H, Vermeulen SJ, Vervoort J, van Wijk M, van Zanten HH, West PC, Wood SA, Rockström J. Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals. Lancet Planet Health. 2021 01; 5(1):e50-e62. PMID: 33306994 7. Liu Y, Barrett CB, Pham T, Violette W. The intertemporal evolution of agriculture and labor over a rapid structural transformation: Lessons from Vietnam. Food Policy. 2020 Jul; 94:101913. PMID: 32773920; PMCID: PMC7398042 8. Golden CD, Borgerson C, Rice BL, Allen LH, Anjaranirina EJG, Barrett CB, Boateng G, Gephart JA, Hampel D, Hartl DL, Knippenberg E, Myers SS, Ralalason DH, Ramihantaniarivo H, Randriamady H, Shahab-Ferdows S, Vaitla B, Volkman SK, Vonona MA. Cohort Description of the Madagascar Health and Environmental Research-Antongil (MAHERY-Antongil) Study in Madagascar. Front Nutr. 2019; 6:109. PMID: 31428615; PMCID: PMC6690017 9. Rohr JR, Barrett CB, Civitello DJ, Craft ME, Delius B, DeLeo GA, Hudson PJ, Jouanard N, Nguyen KH, Ostfeld RS, Remais JV, Riveau G, Sokolow SH, Tilman D. Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production. Nat Sustain. 2019; 2(6):445-456. PMID: 32219187; PMCID: PMC7091874 10. Sheahan M, Barrett CB. Review: Food loss and waste in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food Policy. 2017 07; 70:1-12. PMID: 28839345; PMCID: PMC5555439 11. Sheahan M, Barrett CB. Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food Policy. 2017 02; 67:12-25. PMID: 28413243; PMCID: PMC5384438 12. Dillon B, Barrett CB. Agricultural factor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: An updated view with formal tests for market failure. Food Policy. 2017 02; 67:64-77. PMID: 28413247; PMCID: PMC5384445 13. Barrett CB, Zhou M, Reich PB, Crowther TW, Liang J. Forest value: More than commercial-Response. Science. 2016 12 23; 354(6319):1541-1542. PMID: 28008035 14. Nikulkov A, Barrett CB, Mude AG, Wein LM. Assessing the Impact of U.S. Food Assistance Delivery Policies on Child Mortality in Northern Kenya. PLoS One. 2016; 11(12):e0168432. PMID: 27997571; PMCID: PMC5173367 15. Liang J, Crowther TW, Picard N, Wiser S, Zhou M, Alberti G, Schulze ED, McGuire AD, Bozzato F, Pretzsch H, de-Miguel S, Paquette A, Hérault B, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Barrett CB, Glick HB, Hengeveld GM, Nabuurs GJ, Pfautsch S, Viana H, Vibrans AC, Ammer C, Schall P, Verbyla D, Tchebakova N, Fischer M, Watson JV, Chen HY, Lei X, Schelhaas MJ, Lu H, Gianelle D, Parfenova EI, Salas C, Lee E, Lee B, Kim HS, Bruelheide H, Coomes DA, Piotto D, Sunderland T, Schmid B, Gourlet-Fleury S, Sonké B, Tavani R, Zhu J, Brandl S, Vayreda J, Kitahara F, Searle EB, Neldner VJ, Ngugi MR, Baraloto C, Frizzera L, Balazy R, Oleksyn J, Zawila-Niedzwiecki T, Bouriaud O, Bussotti F, Finér L, Jaroszewicz B, Jucker T, Valladares F, Jagodzinski AM, Peri PL, Gonmadje C, Marthy W, O'Brien T, Martin EH, Marshall AR, Rovero F, Bitariho R, Niklaus PA, Alvarez-Loayza P, Chamuya N, Valencia R, Mortier F, Wortel V, Engone-Obiang NL, Ferreira LV, Odeke DE, Vasquez RM, Lewis SL, Reich PB. Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests. Science. 2016 10 14; 354(6309). PMID: 27738143 16. Headey D, Barrett CB. Opinion: Measuring development resilience in the world's poorest countries. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Sep 15; 112(37):11423-5. PMID: 26374789; PMCID: PMC4577171 17. Barrett CB, Constas MA. Toward a theory of resilience for international development applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Oct 07; 111(40):14625-30. PMID: 25246580 18. Ngonghala CN, Plucinski MM, Murray MB, Farmer PE, Barrett CB, Keenan DC, Bonds MH. Poverty, disease, and the ecology of complex systems. PLoS Biol. 2014 Apr; 12(4):e1001827. PMID: 24690902; PMCID: PMC3972083 19. Liao C, Sullivan PJ, Barrett CB, Kassam KA. Socioenvironmental threats to pastoral livelihoods: risk perceptions in the Altay and Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang, China. Risk Anal. 2014 Apr; 34(4):640-55. PMID: 24283626 20. Brashares JS, Golden CD, Weinbaum KZ, Barrett CB, Okello GV. Economic and geographic drivers of wildlife consumption in rural Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Aug 23; 108(34):13931-6. PMID: 21873180; PMCID: PMC3161600