General Info

Dr. Barbara Harkness is a board certified family medicine physician. She believes in promoting a healthy lifestyle and strives to practice medicine the way she would treat her family, especially using evidence-based treatments and medication in the context of treating the whole person and not just the disease. Dr. Harkness worked for 11 years as an RN before medical school. Specialty Areas: Hyperbaric medicine Wound healing Aerospace medicine Orthopedics Occupation medicine Urgent care Laceration repair Wound debridement Education: Undergraduate degree in pre-medicine at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Medical College of Wisconsin, 1982 General Surgery Internship at St. Joseph Hospital, Milwaukee, WI Family Medicine Residency training at St. Luke's Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, WI Dr. Harkness is married with two dogs. She enjoys gardening, sports, reading, collecting art, traveling, physical fitness, and animals. She spends free time with her family, dogs, and traveling.