Anna A. Bar, M.D.

  • Professor of Dermatology, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Bar is a Professor of Dermatology and Co-Director of Mohs micrographic surgery. Dr. Bar is the Director of the Fellowship Program in Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology, and has trained fellows since 2006 in this advanced technique. Dr. Bar specializes in skin cancer surgery, including Mohs micrographic surgery and the subsequent reconstruction. She has advanced training in laser and cosmetic surgery, fillers and scar revision. Dr. Anna Bar is double board certified in Dermatology and Mohs micrographic surgery.

Dr. Bar received her medical degree from New York University medical school, followed by an internal medicine internship at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital. After completing dermatology training at OHSU, she pursued additional fellowship subspecialty training in Mohs surgery and cosmetic and laser surgery at the California Skin Institute. 

Dr. Bar is a sought after speaker both nationally and internationally with over 150 past lectures.  She has presented on Mohs for melanoma, Reconstruction after Mohs surgery, and Cosmetic topics in Canada, England, Greece, Italy, Singapore, South Africa, Brazil, and across the USA. She regularly lectures and teaches courses for physicians at the national meetings of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery and the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery. She has authored over 60 peer reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters about skin cancer and cosmetic dermatology, and regularly instructs other doctors, residents and medical students in skin cancer surgery. 

She serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Academic Cosmetic Dermatologists and has served on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery. She is a past President of Oregon Dermatology Society and is currently on the Board of Directors for ODS.  

Dr. Bar enjoys spending time with her husband, who is also a dermatologist, and her daughters. She likes wakesurfing, golfing, snowboarding and beach volleyball.

Physican referrals:
Phone: 503-494-6483
Fax: 503-494-0596

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 2001, New York University School of Medicine
  • Internship

    • Internal Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, 2002
  • Residency

    • Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 2005
  • Fellowship

    • Mohs chemosurgery and advanced cosmetic dermatologic surgery, California Skin Institute, Mountain View, CA, 2006
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Dermatology, Dermatology
    • American College of Mohs Surgery, 2006
    • American Board of Dermatology, Mohs micrographic surgery

Memberships and associations:

  • American Academy of Dermatology
  • Women's Dermatological Society
  • American Society of Dermatologic Surgery
  • Association of Academic Dermatologic Surgeons
  • American College of Mohs Surgery
  • Oregon Dermatologic Society
  • Oregon Medical Association

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Accelerated Takedown of Melolabial Interpolation Flaps at 1 to 2 weeks, Indications and Safety for Improved Patient Experience

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. Smriti Prasad
    2. Brett Neill
    3. Wesley Yu
    4. Justin J. Leitenberger
    5. Anna Bar
  • Availability of lasers and hands-on training in cosmetic dermatology in residency

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    1. Bianca Y. Kang
    2. Erik J. Stratman
    3. Jenny C. Hu
    4. Rachel Elsanadi
    5. Tanya Greywal
    6. Kristen M. Kelly
    7. Arisa Ortiz
    8. Sami K. Saikaly
    9. Kathleen C. Suozzi
    10. Diana Bolotin
    11. Kira Minkis
    12. Murad Alam
    13. Diana D. Antonovich
    14. Anna Bar
    15. Alison Boucher
    16. Maggie L. Chow
    17. M. Laurin Council
    18. Loma Dave
    19. Min Deng
    20. Milad Eshaq
    21. Ronda S. Farah
    22. Erica Ghareeb
    23. Carolyn Hardin Robinson
    24. Deirdre Hooper
    25. Elika Hoss
    26. Farhana Ikmal Hisham
    27. Jayne Joo
    28. Erica B. Kelly
    29. Nour Kibbi
    30. Lauren C.S. Kole
    31. A. Shadi Kourosh
    32. Helena Kuhn
    33. Jessica G. Labadie
    34. Naomi Lawrence
    35. Yakir S. Levin
    36. Janiene Luke
    37. Umer Nadir
    38. Zeena Y. Nawas
    39. Jeffrey S. Orringer
    40. Michelle V. Pearlstein
    41. Vesna Petronic-Rosic
    42. Jared E. Roberts
    43. Olivia L. Schenck
    44. Cynthia A. Schlick
    45. Kalee Shah
    46. Ladan Shahabi
    47. Amanda K. Suggs
    48. Leila Tolaymat
    49. Neelam A. Vashi
    50. Kimberley H.M. Ward
    51. Saranya P. Wyles
    52. Michael Yi
    53. Simon S. Yoo
  • CAPABLE

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. Matthew C. Fox
    2. Ashley O. Riddle
    3. Jose A. Cervantes
    4. Megan E. Shelton
    5. Meghan Woody
    6. Emile Latour
    7. S. Tyler Hollmig
    8. Anna A. Bar
    9. Justin Leitenberger
  • Cosmetic directors on ACGME program requirements

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    1. Kira Minkis
    2. Erik J. Stratman
    3. Victoria J. Shi
    4. Tanya Greywal
    5. Jenny C. Hu
    6. Kathleen C. Suozzi
    7. Sami K. Saikaly
    8. Arisa Ortiz
    9. Bianca Y. Kang
    10. Murad Alam
    11. A. Shadi Kourosh
    12. Alison Boucher
    13. Amanda K. Suggs
    14. Anna Bar
    15. Brian Cahn
    16. Carolyn A. Robinson
    17. Cynthia A. Schlick
    18. Deirdre Hooper
    19. Diana Antonovich
    20. Diana Bolotin
    21. Elika Hoss
    22. Erica Ghareeb
    23. Farhana Ikmal Hisham
    24. Gabriella Alvarez
    25. Helena Kuhn
    26. Janiene Luke
    27. Jared E. Roberts
    28. Jayne Joo
    29. Jeffrey S. Orringer
    30. Jessica G. Labadie
    31. Kalee Shah
    32. Kimberley H.M. Ward
    33. Kristen M. Kelly
    34. Ladan Shahabi
    35. Lauren C.S. Kole
    36. Leila Tolaymat
    37. Loma Dave
    38. M. Laurin Council
    39. Maggie L. Chow
    40. Michael D. Yi
    41. Michelle V. Pearlstein
    42. Milad Eshaq
    43. Min Deng
    44. Naomi Lawrence
    45. Neelam A. Vashi
    46. Nour Kibbi
    47. Olivia L. Schenck
    48. Rachel Elsanadi
    49. Ronda S. Farah
    50. Saranya P. Wyles
  • Establishing Consensus for Mohs Micrographic Surgical Techniques in the Treatment of Melanoma in Situ for Future Clinical Trials

    JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
    1. Kristen K. Curtis
    2. Nathan J. Fakult
    3. Jennifer L. Strunck
    4. Sumaira Z. Aasi
    5. Christine S. Ahn
    6. Murad Alam
    7. Anna A. Bar
    8. Ramona Behshad
    9. Christopher K. Bichakjian
    10. Diana Bolotin
    11. Susan L. Boone
    12. Jeremy S. Bordeaux
    13. Jerry D. Brewer
    14. David R. Carr
    15. John A. Carucci
    16. Jason R. Castillo
    17. Sean R. Christensen
    18. Melanie A. Clark
    19. Lindsey K. Collins
    20. Addison M. Demer
    21. Daniel B. Eisen
    22. Hao Feng
    23. Bahar F. Firoz
    24. Roy C. Grekin
    25. Jason M. Hirshburg
    26. Todd E. Holmes
    27. Conway C. Huang
    28. Thomas A. Jennings
    29. Shang I. Brian Jiang
    30. Sailesh Konda
    31. Justin J. Leitenberger
    32. Jesse M. Lewin
    33. Ian A. Maher
    34. Elise Ng
    35. Ida F. Orengo
    36. Faramarz H. Samie
    37. Drew K. Saylor
    38. Victoria Rose Sharon
    39. Teo Soleymani
    40. Susan M. Swetter
    41. Jesalyn A. Tate
    42. Marta J. Van Beek
    43. Nahid Y. Vidal
    44. Alok Vij
    45. Ashley Wysong
    46. Yaohui Gloria Xu
    47. Bryan T. Carroll
    48. Wesley Y. Yu
  • Integrating the 40-Gene Expression Profile (40-GEP) Test Improves Metastatic Risk-Stratification Within Clinically Relevant Subgroups of High-Risk Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (cSCC) Patients

    Dermatology and Therapy
    1. Ashley Wysong
    2. Ally Khan Somani
    3. Sherrif F. Ibrahim
    4. Javier Cañueto
    5. Alison L. Fitzgerald
    6. Jennifer J. Siegel
    7. Anesh Prasai
    8. Matthew S. Goldberg
    9. Aaron S. Farberg
    10. Christie Regula
    11. Anna Bar
    12. Julia Kasprzak
    13. David G. Brodland
    14. Shlomo A. Koyfman
    15. Sarah T. Arron
  • Optimization of Tissue Digestion Methods for Characterization of Photoaged Skin by Single Cell RNA Sequencing Reveals Preferential Enrichment of T Cell Subsets

    Cells
    1. Terri Clister
    2. Rosalyn M. Fey
    3. Zachary R. Garrison
    4. Cristian D. Valenzuela
    5. Anna Bar
    6. Justin J. Leitenberger
    7. Rajan P. Kulkarni
  • Pathologic Upstaging of Cutaneous Melanoma After Mohs Micrographic Surgery

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. Margit Juhasz
    2. Jade N. Young
    3. Soraya Azzawi
    4. Justin Leitenberger
    5. Anna Bar
    6. Nima M. Gharavi
  • The utility of artificial intelligence platforms for patient-generated questions in Mohs micrographic surgery

    International Journal of Dermatology
    1. Kyle C. Lauck
    2. Seo Won Cho
    3. Matthew DaCunha
    4. John Wuennenberg
    5. Sumaira Aasi
    6. Murad Alam
    7. Sarah T. Arron
    8. Anna Bar
    9. David G. Brodland
    10. Felipe B. Cerci
    11. Joel L. Cohen
    12. Brett Coldiron
    13. M. Laurin Council
    14. Christopher B. Harmon
    15. George Hruza
    16. Severin Läuchli
    17. Brent R. Moody
    18. Ashley S. Wysong
    19. John A. Zitelli
    20. Stanislav N. Tolkachjov
  • Variations of the Island Pedicle Flap for Reconstruction of Nasal Defects

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. Caroline Morris
    2. Stanislav N. Tolkachjov
    3. W. Joseph Overman
    4. Vitaly Terushkin
    5. Anna A. Bar
  • Factors Influencing General Dermatologists When Referring Patients With Head and Neck Melanoma for Mohs Micrographic Surgery

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. Brett C. Neill
    2. Spyros M. Siscos
    3. Anna A. Bar
    4. Edward W. Seger
    5. Emile Latour
    6. Stanislav N. Tolkachjov
  • Needs and Gaps in Resident Trainee Education, Clinical Patient Care, and Clinical Research in Cosmetic Dermatology

    Archives of Dermatological Research
    1. Kira Minkis
    2. Diana Bolotin
    3. M. Laurin Council
    4. Anna Bar
    5. Ronda S. Farah
    6. Nour Kibbi
    7. Rachel Y.N. Miest
    8. Jeffrey S. Orringer
    9. Arisa Ortiz
    10. Kathleen C. Suozzi
    11. Neelam A. Vashi
    12. Simon S. Yoo
    13. Joerg Albrecht
    14. Travis W. Blalock
    15. Alison J. Bruce
    16. Min Deng
    17. Shraddha Desai
    18. Milad Eshaq
    19. Lori A. Fiessinger
    20. Erica Ghareeb
    21. Tanya Greywal
    22. Adelaide A. Hebert
    23. Deirdre Hooper
    24. Maria Hordinsky
    25. Jenny C. Hu
    26. Atieh Jibbe
    27. Jayne Joo
    28. Kristen M. Kelly
    29. Sonya Kenkare
    30. Shilpi Khetarpal
    31. Lauren C.S. Kole
    32. A. Shadi Kourosh
    33. Helena Kuhn
    34. Kachiu C. Lee
    35. Roberta Lucas
    36. Janiene Luke
    37. Mariam Mafee
    38. Tiffany T. Mayo
    39. Zeena Y. Nawas
    40. Edit B. Olasz Harken
    41. Michelle V. Pearlstein
    42. Vesna Petronic-Rosic
    43. Carolyn A. Robinson
    44. Megan N. Rogge
    45. Sami K. Saikaly
    46. Olivia L. Schenck
    47. Cynthia A. Schlick
    48. Ladan Shahabi
    49. Desmond M. Shipp
    50. Melissa Shive
    51. Sirunya Silapunt
    52. Erik J. Stratman
    53. Ronald Sulewski
    54. Amanda K. Suggs
    55. Leila Tolaymat
    56. Kimberley H.M. Ward
    57. Mara Weinstein Velez
    58. Joshua Zeichner
    59. Bianca Y. Kang
    60. Sarah A. Ibrahim
    61. Rachel E. Christensen
    62. Noor Anvery
    63. McKenzie K.A. Dirr
    64. Naomi Lawrence
    65. Murad Alam
  • Patient-Reported Nasal Function and Appearance After Interpolation Flap Repair Following Skin Cancer Resection

    Facial Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine
    1. Surya A. Veerabagu
    2. Allison M. Perz
    3. Tess M. Lukowiak
    4. Michael P. Lee
    5. Donald Neal
    6. Leora Aizman
    7. Christopher J. Miller
    8. Nicholas Golda
    9. John G. Albertini
    10. David Chen
    11. Anna Bar
    12. Justin Leitenberger
    13. Ian A. Maher
    14. Joseph F. Sobanko
    15. Tyler Hollmig
    16. Sumaira Aasi
    17. Adam Sutton
    18. H. William Higgins
    19. Thuzar M. Shin
    20. Christine Weinberger
    21. Adam Mattox
    22. Ashley Wysong
    23. Shannon T. Nugent
    24. Jeremy R. Etzkorn
  • Permanent section margin concordance after Mohs micrographic surgery with immunohistochemistry for invasive melanoma and melanoma in situ

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    1. Jade N. Young
    2. Tuyet A. Nguyen
    3. S. Caleb Freeman
    4. Emma Hill
    5. Mariah Johnson
    6. Nima Gharavi
    7. Anna Bar
    8. Justin Leitenberger
  • Postoperative Complications After Interpolated Flap Repair for Mohs Defects of the Nose

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. Allison M. Perz
    2. Tess M. Lukowiak
    3. Michael P. Lee
    4. Donald Neal
    5. Leora Aizman
    6. Christopher J. Miller
    7. Nicholas Golda
    8. John G. Albertini
    9. Todd Holmes
    10. Anna Bar
    11. Justin Leitenberger
    12. Ian Maher
    13. Joseph F. Sobanko
    14. David Chen
    15. Tyler Hollmig
    16. Sumaira Aasi
    17. Adam Sutton
    18. H. William Higgins
    19. Thuzar M. Shin
    20. Christine Weinberger
    21. Adam Mattox
    22. Ashley Wysong
    23. Jeremy R. Etzkorn
  • The Association of Academic Cosmetic Dermatology

    Archives of Dermatological Research
    1. Kira Minkis
    2. Diana Bolotin
    3. M. Laurin Council
    4. Anna Bar
    5. Ronda S. Farah
    6. Nour Kibbi
    7. Rachel Y.N. Miest
    8. Jeffrey S. Orringer
    9. Arisa Ortiz
    10. Kathleen C. Suozzi
    11. Neelam A. Vashi
    12. Simon S. Yoo
    13. Joerg Albrecht
    14. Travis W. Blalock
    15. Alison J. Bruce
    16. Min Deng
    17. Shraddha Desai
    18. Milad Eshaq
    19. Lori A. Fiessinger
    20. Erica Ghareeb
    21. Tanya Greywal
    22. Adelaide A. Hebert
    23. Deirdre Hooper
    24. Maria Hordinsky
    25. Jenny C. Hu
    26. Atieh Jibbe
    27. Jayne Joo
    28. Kristen M. Kelly
    29. Sonya Kenkare
    30. Shilpi Khetarpal
    31. Lauren C.S. Kole
    32. A. Shadi Kourosh
    33. Helena Kuhn
    34. Kachiu C. Lee
    35. Roberta Lucas
    36. Janiene Luke
    37. Mariam Mafee
    38. Tiffany T. Mayo
    39. Zeena Y. Nawas
    40. Edit B. Olasz Harken
    41. Michelle V. Pearlstein
    42. Vesna Petronic-Rosic
    43. Carolyn A. Robinson
    44. Megan N. Rogge
    45. Dana L. Sachs
    46. Sami K. Saikaly
    47. Olivia L. Schenck
    48. Cynthia A. Schlick
    49. Ladan Shahabi
    50. Desmond M. Shipp
    51. Melissa Shive
    52. Sirunya Silapunt
    53. Amanda K. Suggs
    54. Leila Tolaymat
    55. Kimberley H.M. Ward
    56. Mara Weinstein Velez
    57. Joshua Zeichner
    58. Bianca Y. Kang
    59. Sarah A. Ibrahim
    60. Rachel E. Christensen
    61. Noor Anvery
    62. McKenzie K.A. Dirr
    63. Naomi Lawrence
    64. Murad Alam
  • Tranexamic Acid Prevention of Hemorrhagic Complications Following Interpolated Flap Repair

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. S. Caleb Freeman
    2. Michael S. Heath
    3. Brett Neill
    4. Caroline Morris
    5. Olivia M. Lucero
    6. Wesley Yu
    7. Anna Bar
    8. Justin J. Leitenberger
  • Refractory focal epithelial hyperplasia successfully treated with novel use of nano-pulse stimulation technology

    Pediatric dermatology
    1. May Elgash
    2. Anna Bar
    3. Julie Dhossche
  • Multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of seviprotimut-L polyvalent melanoma vaccine in patients with post-resection melanoma at high risk of recurrence

    Journal for immunotherapy of cancer
    1. Craig L. Slingluff
    2. Karl D. Lewis
    3. Robert Andtbacka
    4. John Hyngstrom
    5. Mohammed Milhem
    6. Svetomir N. Markovic
    7. Tawnya Bowles
    8. Omid Hamid
    9. Leonel Hernandez-Aya
    10. Joel Claveau
    11. Sekwon Jang
    12. Prejesh Philips
    13. Shernan G. Holtan
    14. Montaser F. Shaheen
    15. Brendan Curti
    16. William Schmidt
    17. Marcus O. Butler
    18. Juan Paramo
    19. Jose Lutzky
    20. Arvinda Padmanabhan
    21. Sajeve Thomas
    22. Daniel Milton
    23. Andrew Pecora
    24. Takami Sato
    25. Eddy Hsueh
    26. Suprith Badarinath
    27. John Keech
    28. Sujith Kalmadi
    29. Pallavi Kumar
    30. Robert Weber
    31. Edward Levine
    32. Adam Berger
    33. Anna Bar
    34. J. Thaddeus Beck
    35. Jeffrey B. Travers
    36. Catalin Mihalcioiu
    37. Brian Gastman
    38. Peter Beitsch
    39. Suthee Rapisuwon
    40. John Glaspy
    41. Edward C. McCarron
    42. Vinay Gupta
    43. Deepti Behl
    44. Brent Blumenstein
    45. Joanna J. Peterkin
  • Opioid Prescribing Recommendations after Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Reconstruction

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. Jessica M. Donigan
    2. Divya Srivastava
    3. Ian Maher
    4. Mark Abdelmalek
    5. Anna A. Bar
    6. Travis W. Blalock
    7. Jeremy S. Bordeaux
    8. David G. Brodland
    9. Bryan T. Carroll
    10. Martha Laurin Council
    11. Keith Duffy
    12. Ramin Fathi
    13. Nicholas Golda
    14. Hillary Johnson-Jahangir
    15. Sailesh Konda
    16. Justin J. Leitenberger
    17. Molly Moye
    18. Jenny L. Nelson
    19. Vishal A. Patel
    20. Joseph J. Shaffer
    21. Razieh Soltani-Arabshahi
    22. Payam Tristani-Firouzi
    23. Amanda J. Tschetter
    24. Rajiv I. Nijhawan
  • Patient Quality of Life after Interpolated Flap Repair of Nasal Mohs Surgery Defects

    JAMA Dermatology
    1. Tess M. Lukowiak
    2. Allison M. Perz
    3. Surya A. Veerabagu
    4. Michael P. Lee
    5. Donald Neal
    6. Leora Aizman
    7. Christopher J. Miller
    8. Nicholas Golda
    9. John G. Albertini
    10. Todd Holmes
    11. Anna Bar
    12. Justin Leitenberger
    13. Ian A. Maher
    14. Joseph F. Sobanko
    15. David Chen
    16. Sumaira Aasi
    17. Adam Sutton
    18. H. William Higgins
    19. Thuzar M. Shin
    20. Christine Weinberger
    21. Adam Mattox
    22. Ashley Wysong
    23. Jeremy R. Etzkorn
  • Reconstruction of a Central Upper Lip Defect

    Dermatologic Surgery
    1. Wayne Joseph Overman
    2. Amy Hopkins
    3. Anna Bar
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of local recurrence rates of head and neck cutaneous melanomas after wide local excision, Mohs micrographic surgery, or staged excision

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    1. Peter G. Bittar
    2. Julie M. Bittar
    3. Jeremy R. Etzkorn
    4. Jerry D. Brewer
    5. Leora Aizman
    6. Thuzar M. Shin
    7. Joseph F. Sobanko
    8. Harold W. Higgins
    9. Cerrene N. Giordano
    10. Justine V. Cohen
    11. Renee Pride
    12. Marilyn T. Wan
    13. Justin J. Leitenberger
    14. Anna A. Bar
    15. Sumaira Aasi
    16. Jeremy S. Bordeaux
    17. Christopher J. Miller