Sari Bar, D.O.

Pediatrics - General

Biography

Sari Bar, D.O. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern and serves as the Medical Director of the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics clinic at Children’s Medical Center Dallas.

Dr. Bar was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. She attended college at The University of Texas at Austin where she majored in Psychology and minored in Biology. She then attended medical school at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, Missouri. She completed her pediatric residency training and fellowship training in Developmental-Behavioral pediatrics at Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York.

She joined the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at UT Southwestern in September 2017.

Education & Training

Medical School - Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience College of Osteopathic Medicine (2007-2011)
Residency - Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Cohen Children's Medical Center Program (2011-2014), Pediatrics
Fellowship - Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Cohen Children's Medical Center Program (2014-2017), Pediatric Behavioral & Developmental

Professional Associations & Affiliations

Texas Pediatric Society
Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics

Honors & Awards

Mary Colleen Alderman Clinical Excellence Award in Pediatrics 2011
Northwell Health Annual Academic Competition 2016
American Academy of Pediatrics Council on School Health Best Abstract Prize 2016
The Texas Alamo Scholarship 2007-2009
The Sparks Osteopathic Foundation Scholarship 2008-2010
Mary Colleen Alderman Pediatrics Award 2009

Books & Publications

Publications
- Quality of Life Among Caregivers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Cross Sectional Study.
  Bar S, Stephens SB, Mathew MS, Messiah SE, Edgar VB, Journal of autism and developmental disorders 2023 Sep
- Relationship between parent perception of child anthropometric phenotype and body mass index change among children with developmental disabilities.
  Xie LY, Atem FD, Bar S, Mathew MS, Lebron C, Chang C, Natale R, Messiah SE, World journal of pediatrics : WJP 2021 Apr 17 2 210-214
- The Impact of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics in a Population of Children with Down Syndrome.
  Shaw D, Bar S, Champion JD, Journal of pediatric nursing 2021 57 38-42
- Variation in Neonate Swaddling Techniques.
  Fletcher L, Pham T, Bar S, Li D, Spinazzola R, Papaioannou H, Milanaik R Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses 2018 Aug 18 4 302-306
- Long-term neurodevelopmental benefits of breastfeeding.
  Bar S, Milanaik R, Adesman A Current opinion in pediatrics 2016 Aug 28 4 559-66

Research

Pediatric residency education related to developmental-behavioral pediatrics
High risk newborn follow-up and outcomes
Breastfeeding and neurodevelopmental outcomes