Barry Dorn

Dr. Dorn is a contributing author of the book Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration, the first edition of which was the winner of the Center for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution Annual Book Prize Award and the Book of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Nursing Association. Excerpts of the book were selected by the American Medical Association for serialization in their newspaper. The second edition was released in June, 2011.

Dr. Dorn’s work in preparedness dates from the events of September 11, 2001. After receiving a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to train in leadership preparedness, the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government expanded the program and began the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, designed to train government leaders in preparedness. Dr. Dorn has interviewed both domestic and international leaders in an attempt to better understand the thinking behind effective leadership. From this work, conducted in collaboration with Leonard J. Marcus and Joseph Henderson, the idea of Meta-leadership originated and was published in the journal Biosecurity & Bioterrorism. It was further developed through work with Dr. Isaac Ashkenazi and, later, Eric J. McNulty. The Meta-leadership framework and practice method has been adopted by the White House Homeland Security Council as well as many other governmental agencies.

Barry C. Dorn, M.D. (born 1941) is Associate Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health(HSPH) and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Associate Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at HSPH. He is also an Instructor in Public Health Practice at HSPH and Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Additionally, he served on the Faculty of Health Services at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel from 2010-2013. Formerly, he practiced at Excel Orthopedic Specialists. He retired from medical practice in 2007. Dr. Dorn is among the leaders in the development of the health care negotiation and conflict resolution field.