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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄

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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄

@rbarnettmd

Pediatric Neurosurgeon | Mom | Wife | Kentucky Colonel | Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery @uk_neurosurgery @KCHKids

Lexington, KY

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Joined April 2009

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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Jul 26, 2025
Check out my interview with @FOX56News discussing all the work that my team and I have put into building the pediatric neurosurgery program here @KCHKids @UK_HealthCare @uk_neurosurgery. We’ve already accomplished so much in one year! #KentuckiansHelpingKentuckians
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Jun 15, 2024
After 16 years of dedication, sacrifice, hard work, sleepless nights, anxiety-filled days, battling impostor syndrome, experiencing amazing growth, & learning to love & be proud of myself, I am officially a PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGEON!!!!! I’m so grateful for everything, y’all. 👶🩷🧠
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Jun 18, 2023
4 years of undergrad. 🧑🏼‍🎓 4 years of medical school. 👩🏼‍⚕️ 7 years of neurosurgery residency. 🧠 This coal miner’s daughter from a holler in Kentucky is officially a neurosurgeon, y’all. 🍾🥂 Celebrated in true Kentuckian fashion by sharing some Pappy with some of the people I love.
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
May 10, 2023
38 days left of #neurosurgery residency!!! This coal miner’s daughter from a holler in eastern KY will officially be a brain surgeon next month! Yeehaw! 😁 @UNCneurosurgery @uk_neurosurgery
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
May 14, 2023
I became a mom during my neurosurgery residency. Many folks told me before med school, it would be too hard to have a family as a #womaninmedicine. In med school, I was told by many that it would be impossible to have a family as a #womaninneurosurgery. I LOVE being a mom!! 💗
Laura Vater, MD, MPH
@doclauravater
May 14, 2023
I became a mom in med school, & many people told me I shouldn't do it. To anyone being told they have to put their parenting plans on hold until training is done, don't listen. This narrative is not helpful. We need more representation of parents in training & more support.
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Feb 15, 2024
I walked into a patient’s room today, and the patient’s mom asked, “Are you the surgeon who braids hair?” “Yes! Yes I am!” 😊 “We heard all about you! We are so excited!!” 🥹🥹🥹 Another little patient of mine jumped out of their bed and came straight to me to give (1/3)
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Nov 8, 2022
Chief neurosurgery resident mom achievement! Made it to my daughter’s zoom parent-teacher conference between managing OR schedules, grand rounds, & preparing for my next case. I may not always be physically present, but I’m trying my best to be the best mom & surgeon I can be.❤️
Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Mar 14, 2024
After seeing comments from a physician (who clearly lacks empathy) regarding the tragic loss of a resident who took their own life, I’m here to remind our profession that we absolutely do not and should not continue to pass down the emotional trauma we experienced (1/6)
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Nov 13, 2020
Can we normalize women having children during residency? Making jokes about freezing eggs is frankly not funny. That’s an additional procedure with risks, time commitments, and costs that women are subjected to unlike our male counterparts who don’t have to worry as much (1/3)
Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Feb 15, 2024
Replying to @rbarnettmd
me a hug today when we were rounding, and my heart just about bursted. (I brought them some toys yesterday when they were scared.) 🥹🥹🥹 Those little things are actually really big things to kids and their families. I love being a pediatric neurosurgeon. (2/3)
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Feb 15, 2024
Replying to @rbarnettmd
I have the best job in the whole world, y’all. 🩷🦄🌈🧸🧠🩵
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Jan 20, 2024
Life feels so surreal at times. Somehow this little girl, a coal miner’s daughter from a holler in KY, went from catching crawdads in the creek & lightnin’ bugs in the night to operating on brains & spines while watching my own daughter discover the magic of life. Gratitude 🩷
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Dec 27, 2022
Neurosurgeon Pediatric Neurosurgeon
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Randaline Barnett, MD 🧠🧸🦄
@rbarnettmd
Oct 15, 2022
I am so excited to officially announce that I will be returning home to KY in August 2024 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Kentucky! I can’t wait to be UK’s pediatric neurosurgeon & serve the children & families of my home state! (1/2)
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