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ACGME Accreditation Field Representative
Barbara H. Bush, PhD

Dr. Barbara Bush received her bachelor's degree in Education from Michigan State University and her master's and PhD degrees in educational curriculum and instruction from Texas A&M University. In 1980 she joined the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. There she participated in a long-term follow-up study of infants discharged from the Level I NICU and was the clinic coordinator of the multidisciplinary spina bifida clinic. She was also the principal investigator of a child abuse prevention grant co-sponsored by the Ounce of Prevention Foundation and the State of Illinois. Concurrently, she was the pediatric clerkship coordinator for the third year medical students.


In 1985 Dr. Bush was appointed director of medical education at Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, with responsibility for administration of graduate and continuing medical education programs, as well as the medical library. During the early 1990's Dr. Bush also performed continuing medical education accreditation site visits with Category I programs in Illinois for the Illinois State Medical Society. In 1992 she was named assistant dean of graduate medical education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.


In January, 1994 Dr. Bush joined the Accreditation Field Staff of the ACGME and in the ensuing years has conducted over 1,745 site visits in the more than 100 specialties and subspecialties accredited by the ACGME. She has given various presentations about the site visit process at national meetings for the ACGME.