Barry received his BA degree in Philosophy from UC Berkeley,
received an MD degree from USC, completed a residency in
Family Practice, was an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
at the University of Washington, and a Visiting Professor at the
Central University of Tibetan Studies in Varanasi, India. He
resides 24 years in Dharamsala serving as a doctor to HH Dalai
Lama, and provides charitable medical care to the poor. Having
done many meditation retreats including a three-year retreat, his
brain was studied as part of research on long-term meditators at
the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Princeton University.
He was ordained as a Buddhist monk by HH Dalai Lama and
continues to be a Diplomat in the American Board of Family
Medicine and a Fellow in the American Academy of Family
Practice. He is faculty at the Mind and Life Institute and consults
for the Max Planck Institute Leipzig’s research on training
compassion. Both the founder and chairman of the Human
Values Institute in Japan, he teaches compassion and secular
ethics in medical schools and universities around the world
including a TEDx talk on happiness. He has authored several
books.
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