Barry graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1982 and completed his residency in Family Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1985. After spending three years in Fort Frances, Ontario, he and his wife, Nancy, settled in the Orangeville, Ontario area to raise their three children.
As a rural family doctor, he has delivered hundreds of babies and given thousands of anaesthetics in addition to working in the emergency department and doing palliative care.
With a passion for medical ethics, he obtained a master’s degree in bioethics at the University of Toronto in 2006 prior to moving back to the Ottawa Valley (he has born in Renfrew, Ontario) where he worked in various capacities with the University of Ottawa.
He retired in 2019 and continues to live in Aylmer, Quebec with Nancy. They are enjoying their roles as grandparents to their eight grandchildren.
