Dr. Barry ClarkeMD, CCFP, FCFP

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Email: barry.clarke@dal.ca
Phone: 902-473-4700
Mailing Address: 
Dalhousie Family Medicine
6960 Mumford Road, Suite 265
Halifax NS B3L 4P1
 

Education

  • Extra Fellow CIHI (Canadian Institute Healthcare Improvement)
  • COE, Dalhousie University
  • MD, Dalhousie University
  • BSc (cum laude), Dalhousie University

Research Interests

Dr. Barry Clarke's research interests have centered on primary care of seniors with a focus on frailty assessment/ management and system and policy interventions.

He is the founder of the Long-term Care Frailty program in Nova Scotia called “Care by Design”, participating with the departments research team to assess the programs intervention on patients and the health care system. His research work with CIHI was called the CARES projected which provided some evidence that at the primary care level, frailty progression can be slowed down and even reversed. Building on the frailty work of Care by Design and CARES research, Dr Clarke now works on a CIHI grant “Primary Care frailty and Comprehensive Geriatric assessments (CGA)”  partnered with Fraser BC. This CIHI grant research work will help inform a second phase of his primary care frailty work which is supported by BRIC NS. The second phase work will help understand how to develop and design a primary care strategy to utilize a CGA and frailty diagnosis in everyday practice. The work is modeled after the pediatric Rourke and is presently called a “ Reverse Rourke.”  Finally, as the Medical Director of Northwood which had the highest Covid-19 case load, he has contributed to national research work on how seniors have responded to Covid-19 infection and immunization.

Selected Grants

  1. Government of Canada, Covid-19 Immunity Task Force
    $1,614,022
    2020-2022
    Principal Investigator: Barrett L 
    Collaborating Investigator: Clarke B
    Immunity in LTCF residents at risk of COVID-19 disease and death: immune biomarkers, immune function, and frailty associated with clinical outcomes in COVID-19 pandemic waves 1 and 2 (PI: Lisa Barrett) Government of Canada, Covid-19 Immunity Task Force
  2. Canadian Frailty Network, Early Career Researcher (ECR) Competition
    $100,000.00
    2022 October- Sept 2024
    Principal Investigator: Theou L
    Co - Investigator: Clarke B
    Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care for Older Adults Living with Frailty 

Selected Publications

MK Andrew, KE Schmader, K Rockwood, B Clarke, JE McElhaney. Considering frailty in SARS-COV_2 vaccine development: how geriatricians can assist. Clinical Interventions in Aging. 2021 Apr 28;16:731-738. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S295522. eCollection 2021

MK Foley, SD Searle, A Toloue, R Booth, A Falkenham, D Falzarano, S Rubino, ME Francis, M McNeil, C Richardson, J LeBlanc, S Oldford, V Gerdts, MK Andrew, SA McNeil, B Clarke, K Rockwood, DJ Kelvin, AA Kelvin. Centenarians and extremely old people living with frailty can elicit durable SARS-CoV-2 spike specific IgG antibodies with virus neutralization functions following virus infection as determined by serological study. EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Jul;37:100975. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100975. PMID: 34222846 PMCID: PMC8235995