About

Michael S. Barr is the Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy and the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He previously served as the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and was the founder and faculty director of the University of Michigan's Center on Finance, Law & Policy. His academic work includes teaching Financial Regulation and International Finance at the Law School, and he has co-founded initiatives such as the International Transactions Clinic and the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project. Barr conducts research and writes on a wide range of issues in domestic and international financial regulation, authoring books such as Financial Regulation: Law & Policy, No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans, Insufficient Funds, and Building Inclusive Financial Systems. He serves in various advisory roles, including as a trustee of the Kresge Foundation, and on advisory councils for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, FDIC, ideas42, and others. Barr has held significant government positions, including serving as the U.S. Department of the Treasury's assistant secretary for financial institutions during the Obama administration, where he was a key architect of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. He also served in the Clinton administration in multiple roles related to the Treasury and State Department. Barr is a graduate of Yale Law School, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Yale University.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Business
• Finance
• Financial system
• Medicine
• Monetary economics
• Gerontology
• Family medicine
• Environmental health
• Nursing
• Economics
• Economic policy

Selected publications

• Implementation of Patient Safety Structures and Processes in the Patient-Centered Medical Home

  Journal for Healthcare Quality · 2021-06-09 · 1 citations

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  ABSTRACT: Although most patient-clinician interactions occur in ambulatory care, little research has addressed measuring ambulatory patient safety or how primary care redesign such as the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) addresses patient safety. Our objectives were to identify PCMH standards relevant to patient safety, construct a measure of patient safety activity implementation, and examine differences in adoptions of these activities by practice and community characteristics. Using a consensus process, we selected elements among a widely adopted, nationally representative PCMH program representing activities that, according to a physician panel, represented patient safety overall and in four domains (diagnosis, treatment delays, medications, and communication and coordination) and generated a score for each. We then evaluated this score among 5,007 practices with the highest PCMH recognition level. Implementation of patient safety activities varied; the few military practices (2.4%) had the highest, and community clinics the lowest, patient safety score, both overall (82.0 and 72.0, respectively, p < .001) and across specific domains. Other practice and community characteristics were not associated with the patient safety score. Understanding better what factors are associated with implementation of patient safety activities may be a key step in improving ambulatory patient safety.

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• Toward a new predoctoral model: Education and training in clinical psychopharmacology.

  Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · 2021-09-30 · 1 citations

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  A ubiquitous research finding in regional and national studies is that at least 40% of persons with mental disorders cannot access mental health services, and pharmacotherapy in particular. The American Psychological Association's (APA) designated programs for the provision of education and training in clinical psychopharmacology can be of great help in alleviating this national need. We address key developments relevant to the foundation of a predoctoral model of clinical psychopharmacology education and training. To this end, an overview of the Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology (MSCP) program at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCSPP) is presented. TCSPP is now enrolling its eleventh consecutive cohort of MSCP students, many of whom are doctoral students who are concurrently attending various APA accredited Health Service Psychology (HSP) programs. We provide two predoctoral routes for completing MSCP training: (a) a route allowing for the creation of concentrations in clinical psychopharmacology in Health Service Psychology (HSP) doctoral programs, providing up to half of MSCP coursework; and (b) a joint doctoral PsyD or PhD/MSCP program meeting APA accreditation and designation standards integrated into a 5-year curriculum to impart HSP graduates with the competencies to provide both psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. We conclude with a discussion about the future direction of predoctoral clinical psychopharmacology education and training. Given its emphasis on neuroscience and interdisciplinary health care, such curricular models may help to address the nation's immediate mental health care needs, while serving to enhance the sustainability of HSP education and professional practice in the 21st Century. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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• Central Bank of the Future Summary and Recommendations for Further Inquiry

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 1 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Should Central Banks Use Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Currencies to Advance Financial Inclusion?

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Health care gap affects 20% of United States population: Transition from pediatric to adult health care

  Health Policy OPEN · 2020 · 25 citations

  • Political Science
  • Medicine
  • Family medicine

  Transition-aged youth and young adults, ages 12 to 26, represent almost 20% of the US population, and an estimated 25%-35% have one or more chronic conditions. The vast majority of youth with and without special health care needs do not receive the necessary and professionally recommended services to transition from pediatric to adult care. Without adequate support during this transition, youth and young adults face an increased risk of adverse outcomes. To accelerate adoption of recommended transition processes in both pediatric and adult systems of care, the authors offer a series of implementation, payment, and research options that are consistent with clinical guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, and American College of Physicians.

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• Neuromuscular etiologies of low back pain beyond the back: implications for acupuncturist training, study design, comparative effectiveness analyses and reimbursement by health insurance programs

  Integrative Medicine Research · 2020-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• Building the Payment System of the Future: How Central Banks Can Improve Payments to Enhance Financial Inclusion

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 11 citations

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  • Business
  • Finance
  • Financial system
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• The Financial Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 7 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Business
  • Finance
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• Crisis-Era Housing Programs

  Yale University Press eBooks · 2020-02-04 · 3 citations

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• CHAPTER 12. Crisis-Era Housing Programs

  Yale University Press eBooks · 2020-12-31

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Frequent coauthors

• Jane Dokko

  22 shared

• Thomson Kuhn

  American College of Physicians

  17 shared

• Thomas R. Yackel

  16 shared

• Peter Basch

  16 shared

• Sendhil Mullainathan

  University of Chicago

  7 shared

• Benjamin J. Keys

  7 shared

• Eldar Shafir

  6 shared

• Jill A. Marsteller

  Johns Hopkins Medicine

  6 shared

Awards & honors

• Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy
• Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law
• Founder and faculty director of the University of Michigan's…