Dr. Barbee earned his B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics at the University of Tennessee in 1986 and then went on to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He was previously a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania (1991 - 1992) and an NIH Research Fellow (1992 - 1995) and Research Associate (1995) in the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago. Dr. Barbee then went on to become Assistant Professor of Bioengineering in the Department of Neurosurgery at the former Allegheny University of the Health Sciences (1995 - 1998), which is now Drexel's College of Medicine.