Sarah Barlow, M.D. Titles and Appointments Professor Schools Medical School Departments Pediatrics You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Dr. Sarah Barlow received her medical degree from UT Southwestern. She completed her pediatric residency at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and she underwent fellowship training in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at Tufts School of Medicine, Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, MA. She also earned a Masters in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health in 1996. She was board certified in pediatric gastroenterology by the American Board of Pediatrics in 1997. Dr. Barlow was assistant professor of pediatrics at Saint Louis University from 1998 to 2007, where she established a weight management program. In 2007, she joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine as associate professor of pediatrics and was the director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Childhood Obesity. She was an investigator on the Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration project, a study sponsored by the CDC that examined healthcare, school, and early childhood education programs for obesity prevention and care in low income neighborhoods. She was the site principal investigator for the NIDDK-sponsored NASH Clinical Research Network (2013-2016). She joined the pediatrics faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2016. In addition to caring for gastrointestinal conditions, Dr. Barlow oversees an integrated program in obesity care that spans community programs, primary healthcare and tertiary care. Education Medical School UT Southwestern Medical School (1989) Residency Brown University School of Medicine (1992), Pediatrics Fellowship Tufts New England Medical Center (1998), Pediatric Gastroenterology Research Interest Management of obesity in children and adolescents NAFLD in children and adolescents Population health approaches to child and adolescent obesity Publications Implementation science evaluation of an eHealth pediatric primary-care overweight and obesity intervention using the RE-AIM evaluation framework Yudkin JS, Jungbauer RM, Allicock MA, Barlow SE PloS one 2026 Feb 21 Obesity and Severe Obesity in Youth Before and During COVID-19 Messiah SE, Guo Y, Xie L, Ernest DK, Martínez Steele E, Neri D, Sova Mccabe ME, Desantis SM, Cartwright BR, Lipshultz SE, Barlow SE Pediatrics 2026 Jan 157 Reply Messiah SE, Ernest DK, Cruz-Muñoz Nd, Lipshultz SE, Barlow SE Journal of Pediatrics 2025 Sep 284 Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Utilization in the Era of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists among Adolescents versus Adults Messiah SE, Ernest DK, Atem FD, Qureshi FG, Mathew MS, Francis JM, Wheelington A, Allicock MA, Cartwright BR, Schneider BE, Cruz-Muñoz Nd, Lipshultz SE, Lingvay I, Almandoz JP, Barlow SE Journal of Pediatrics 2025 Jul 282 Proctocolitis or TikTok-olitis: The dangers of social media influence on home constipation management Polachek A, Flindt G, Lazar L, Barlow S Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition 2025 May 80 941-942 Relationship Between Weight Bias Internalization and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adolescents Seeking Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Wheelington A, Ernest D, Xie L, Atem F, Neti S, Braxton R, Misserian M, Francis J, Mathew MS, Allicock M, Cartwright B, Qureshi F, Barlow S, Messiah S Obesity Surgery 2025 Mar 35 755-762 Motivators and Barriers to Seeking Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Among Adolescents: A Qualitative Study Allicock MA, Francis JM, Braxton R, Polavarapu D, Misserian M, Mathew MS, Wheelington A, Cartwright BR, Qureshi FG, Barlow SE, Messiah SE Obesity Science and Practice 2025 Feb 11 Adaptation of a standardized lifestyle intervention to maximize health outcomes in adolescent metabolic and bariatric surgery patients Misserian M, Wheelington A, King R, Francis J, Mathew MS, Allicock MA, Cartwright BR, Adewunmi A, Chandrasekhar A, Polavarapu D, Qureshi FG, Barlow SE, Messiah SE Journal of Translational Medicine 2024 Dec 22 Lifestyle intervention and support preferences to maximize health outcomes in adolescent bariatric surgery patients Allicock MA, King R, Francis J, Mathew MS, Polavarapu D, Wheelington A, Misserian M, Cartwright BR, Adewunmi A, Chandrasekhar A, Qureshi FG, Barlow SE, Messiah SE Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2024 Sep 8 Anthropometry for predicting cardiometabolic disease risk factors in adolescents Xie L, Kim J, Almandoz JP, Clark J, Mathew MS, Cartwright BR, Barlow SE, Lipshultz SE, Messiah SE Obesity 2024 Aug 32 1558-1567 Results 1-10 of 114 1 2 3 4 5 Next Last Books Featured Books Assessment of the Obese Child or Adolescent. In Kushner RF, Bessesen DH, eds. Treatment of the Obese Patient. Barlow SE, Taylor SA, Hastings E, Garland BH. (2014). New York: Springer; 287-304. Honors & Awards Jim Wright LectureshipUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham (2009) Pouncey Memorial LectureshipOcshner Childrens Health Center, New Orleans, LA (2009) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Academy of Pediatrics American Heart Association; Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in the Young Committee North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Society for Pediatric Research The Obesity Society
