{"id":2648,"date":"2024-01-01T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=2648"},"modified":"2025-10-20T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:53:23","slug":"dr-ruth-barker","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/portfolio-items\/dr-ruth-barker","title":{"rendered":"Dr Ruth Barker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column phd-title\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Dr Ruth Barker<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_5 1_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:20%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:9.6%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:9.6%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element \" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Ruth Barker\" title=\"Ruth Barker\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/06\/Ruth-Barker-300x300.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2649 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/06\/Ruth-Barker-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/06\/Ruth-Barker-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/06\/Ruth-Barker.jpg 589w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_4_5 4_5 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:80%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.4%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.4%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Dr Ruth Barker is an emergency paediatrician with over 30 years clinical experience.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Barker has been working in injury prevention for the last 20 years and has been the Director of the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit since 2009. She is the JTI Injury Prevention lead and current President of Kidsafe Qld.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Barker has expertise in understanding and interpreting the complex relationship between developmental, biomechanical, psychological, social and environmental factors that predict paediatric injury. This expertise was largely developed through correlation of patient\/ family narrative with injury findings in the emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Barker also has expertise in injury data analysis, interpretation and development and implementation of injury prevention strategy through advocacy, policy, standards and regulatory change. Dr Barker participates on a broad range of Australian Standards committees contributing clinical injury insights to improve product safety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>QISU website: https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/qisu\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit and Injury Prevention lead JTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":2649,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[34],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-jtiteam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2648\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}