Barbara Clifford is a retired advanced practice provider. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of San Francisco, her certification as a nurse midwife from the University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco General Nurse Midwifery Education Program and her master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.
Barbara worked for 15 years as a registered nurse in various clinical settings before joining an OBGYN group at Enloe Health Medical Center as the first certified nurse midwife in the practice. After 12 years of providing women and their families with full scope midwifery care, she left Enloe to obtain a master’s degree in public health and moved her clinical focus to breast and cervical cancer care for the under and uninsured in 16 Northern California counties. Working for a local nonprofit, the California Health Collaborative, she assumed leadership roles as a clinical coordinator and program manager. At the Collaborative, she partnered with the Susan G. Koman Organization as well as local health care organizations to establish a full spectrum breast cancer detection and diagnosis payment system for underserved individuals in our community who did not qualify for any other programs that provided these services. In 2012, Barbara returned to Enloe to assist with the development and implementation of a breast cancer nurse navigation program. Upon completion the City of Hope Intensive Course in Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment in February 2015, she was instrumental in the development and implementation of the genetic cancer risk assessment program at Enloe Regional Cancer Center, where she worked until her retirement in 2022.
Barbara and her husband, Sars, live in Butte Creek Canyon and have four grown children as well as 11 grandchildren.
