Dr. Baker completed her undergraduate education at Hunter College in New York City in 1964 and completed a Master of Art in Teaching Science on the Secondary Level at New York University. She earned her M.D. at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1975. She interned and had a psychiatric residency in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine in 1979.
Dr. Baker completed her research training with a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the Erasmus University of Medicine Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 1995. She was also a professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Baker earned an international reputation for studies of cross-cultural and geriatric psychiatry and wrote over 75 papers and 25 chapters addressing these issues.
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