Hayley Barnes, MBBS, PhD

Dr. Hayley Barnes is a pulmonologist who specializes in caring for patients with advanced lung disease, including interstitial lung disease, or ILD (conditions that cause scarring in the lungs) and pulmonary hypertension, or PH (high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs). Her expertise encompasses advanced PH, chronic thromboembolic PH, and the overlap between PH and ILD. She serves as medical director of the UCSF Interstitial Lung Disease Program.

Barnes' research has focused on ILD related to occupation and hazardous material exposure, as well as on how to improve ILD diagnosis and predict how individual patients will respond to treatment.

Barnes completed her medical education and training in Australia. She earned her medical degree at Deakin University in Melbourne, completed a residency in general medicine at St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, and completed two respiratory medicine fellowships at Alfred Health and one at Austin Hospital. She also has a master of public health degree from the University of Newcastle and a doctorate from Monash University.