Barbara L. Parry, M.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Women’s Mood Disorders Clinic at the University of California, San Diego, where she joined the faculty in 1985.

She did a research fellowship in Clinical Psychobiology at the National Institute of Mental Health from 1982 to 1985. She served as an intern in internal medicine and a resident in psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles (1978–1982).