Dr. Kurt Barrett is an Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon who has practiced in Athens, Michigan since 1977. He is a husband, father and grandfather in solo, private medical practice in rural southern Michigan.

He was born, raised, educated and trained in Michigan where his educational experience started in a one room country school. He finished high school in Lapeer, Michigan and went on to graduate from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan where in 1970 he received the Detroit Chapter National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame College Scholar-Athlete Award for outstanding achievement as a scholar and football player. In addition to other honors, including Little All-American Honorable Mention status, he was drafted by the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League.

Dr. Barrett graduated medical school at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSU-COM) in East Lansing, Michigan as the recipient of the Fred L. Mitchell Award for excellence in Osteopathic Diagnosis and Therapeutics. After completing his post graduate training in metropolitan Detroit he entered private practice in southwestern Michigan where he is still in practice today. In 1980 he was elected Chief of Staff at Lakeview General Hospital in Battle Creek, and also served as Chairman of the Family Practice Department and Director of Family Practice Residency - which also included internship/preceptor training. Since graduation from Michigan State, Dr. Barrett has maintained associate clinical professor status at MSU-COM. Dr. Barrett became certified in General/Family Practice by the American Board of Osteopathic General/Family Practice in 1982. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the Michigan Osteopathic Association as well as the South Central Osteopathic Society. He has been a speaker at professional, educational meetings as well as service organizations, on radio and local cable TV.

After uncovering the cause of several family members' struggles with unusual type medical symptoms Dr. Barrett was motivated to publish the book "Are you Sick of Being Sick?". Through his studies and the treatments described in this book his clinical experiences have allowed individual patients to have remarkable outcomes. The profound results experienced can be life altering, however are hard to capture with a lab test or x-ray, etc. Hence the type of improvement Dr. Barrett's patients often see is frequently expressed as a score on a Quality of Life questionnaire.

In the September 2006 issue of The Supplement to The American Journal of Gastroenterology is his abstract "Barrett Esophagus: Regression in 15 Patients ". In this abstract Dr. Kurt Barrett reports on 15 patients who had biopsy confirmed specialized intestinal metaplasia (also called Barrett esophagus, named after Dr. Norman Barrett who first described this anomaly in 1950). At yearly endoscopic surveillance, these individuals were found to be biopsy negative for the condition of Barrett esophagus. Since the results are consistent with clinical improvement, is this a glimpse of the ability to "measure" improvement in a different way? Dr. Barrett continues to see remarkable improvements in his patients' health and quality of life each day through this innovative and fledgling course of treatment.