Dr. Austin Baraki

An internal medicine physician, academic hospitalist, and Fellow of the American College of Physicians, he specializes in hospital medicine, lifestyle medicine, and exercise-based care. He serves as an associate professor/clinical associate professor of medicine and staff physician at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where he works in inpatient hospital medicine and as core faculty in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. He is also a co-founder and educator at Barbell Medicine and contributes to telehealth practice in lifestyle and cardiometabolic medicine. His clinical focus includes acute inpatient medicine and complex diagnostics, preventive and cardiometabolic health, and exercise, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, and pain-focused care. His research interests center on the physiology and systemic effects of resistance training, the use of exercise as a therapeutic intervention across diverse clinical populations, and the integration of lifestyle and fitness resources into medical care. In addition to his clinical and academic work, he is a recognized residency educator and has held leadership roles in physician and public education through Barbell Medicine, helping advance evidence-based approaches to training, rehabilitation, and health communication. He earned his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School and completed his residency in internal medicine at UT Health San Antonio.