Fourth Year Fellows

Dr. Barnes was born in Leeds, UK and moved to Minnesota to complete High School. She then went to Johns Hopkins, where she wrote her French thesis on TB in 19th Century French Literature and did research on exercise in Cystic Fibrosis. She then returned to the cold at the University of Minnesota for Medical School, where she continued to work in Cystic Fibrosis this time focusing on Pseudomonas transmission. During this she spent a year in Uganda studying malaria. She then followed the sun to Residency at UC San Diego where she did research on post-arrest outcomes. Due to the wonderful people, she stayed for a year as an Hospitalist and then for Fellowship. She is currently studying the effect of hypoxia in a COVID mouse model. She enjoys solo travel, hiking, poor piano-playing and trying to keep plants alive.

Dr. DeWolf was born and raised in Oakland, CA. After high school, he left the California sunshine for the east coast, where he attended Villanova University. He spent the latter two years of his undergraduate education studying B cell development in a basic science lab, which ultimately proved to be the beginning of a great passion for bench research and immunology. After graduation he spent a year in southern Mexico before returning to California for his medical school at UCSD. He began working in a lab that studied how innate immunity initiated and propagated acute kidney injury and thought he would end up as a transplant nephrologist. During his 4th year of medical school, however, he rotated through the ICU and fell in love with critical care medicine. He stayed at UCSD for his residency and continued to work in the research area that he now intends to make his career. He enjoys playing golf and basketball and taking his dog on walks with his wife.   

Dr. McGuire was born in Chicago, but raised in Baltimore, MD. In college he became fascinated by the history of science and medicine and wrote his history thesis on the sociology of Charles Darwin’s concept of natural selection. Since college he has followed a circuitous path with stops at: the NIH doing research on cardiac myocyte survival and vascular smooth muscle cell migration, the University of Chicago doing research on DNA repair following exposure to ionizing radiation or cisplatinum, Tulane University doing research on the role of endothelin signaling in intrarenal renin production, and University of Colorado doing research on heart failure medication adherence and nonpharmacologic interventions for the acute respiratory distress syndrome. Ultimately, he hopes to pursue a research career in pulmonary physiology, pulmonary vascular medicine, and their overlap in the ICU. His interests include: cooking, travel, jazz, history, classic movies, and cocktails to name a few.

Dr. Pearce grew up in Denver, Colorado. She completed her undergraduate degree in English at Colgate University in New York. She then went to medical school in New Orleans at Tulane University school of Medicine. In medical school she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and received Merck Manual Award for Academic Excellence as well as the American Medical Women’s Association Glasgow-Rubin Achievement Award. She moved to the west coast for residency and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UC San Diego. During residency she focused her research on cardiac arrest outcomes and prognostic indicators. In fellowship, her research interests have shifted to mechanical ventilation, lung protective ventilation, and use of new techniques/technology to assess ventilation distribution. Her interests outside of the hospital include hiking, yoga, skiing, and travel.