Tyler

W.

Barrett

MD, MSCI

Tyler W. Barrett, MD, MSCI, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Compliance at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His clinical goals are optimizing efficient and appropriate patient care, quality improvement, opioid stewardship, opioid dependence treatment, multidisciplinary patient care pathways, and reimbursement-related issues. 

He previously served as the Executive Medical Director, Medical Director, Quality & Patient Safety Director, and Director of the Clinical Operations Division for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He led the department’s documentation compliance and reimbursement program and served as chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) reimbursement committee. He is a member of the Tennessee Medical Association Insurance Committee. 

Dr. Barrett is actively involved in the medical center’s opioid stewardship as co-chair of the Controlled Substances Quality Oversight Committee and past Chair of the Vanderbilt Committee on Opioid Monitoring and Stewardship. In alignment with his operational foci, his research goals are to improve the emergency department (ED) treatment of patients with opioid use disorder, increase use of non-opioid analgesia, and risk stratification of ED patients with atrial fibrillation. 

Dr. Barrett chairs the Vanderbilt University Faculty Senate and serves on the Faculty Athletics Committee. He is a board member for the Nashville Academy of Medicine and is a senior associate editor and journal club section editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine. He serves as an emergency medicine team physician for the Nashville Predators and served as vice president for the Nashville Youth Hockey League from 2016–2022. His work with youth sport organizations ignited his passion for promoting education about the dangers of opioids among adolescents and young adults. 

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, exercising, listening to live music of all genres, traveling, mentoring premedical students, and reading history novels.