Further Information
Primary Position: Consultant Physician and Psychiatrist
Place of work: Toorak Village Medical Centre
Dr Baker obtained his MBBS from Monash University. After a year as house officer in Yorkshire, including at the Leeds General Infirmary, he worked as an SHO at the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, the Spinal Unit at Stoke Mandeville, and at several hospitals in London before obtaining his MRCP(UK). He completed his physician training in Melbourne at the Austin Hospital, Monash Medical Centre, and as the senior medical registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Additionally, he qualified as a psychiatrist. He worked as a consultant physician in general medicine and in psychiatry for many years at Box Hill Hospital, and is now in private practice.
Outside of medicine, Dr Baker completed a science degree with a focus on applied mathematics, qualified in psychology in the UK, completed an honours degree in philosophy, and obtained law degrees from Oxford University (Hertford College) and Deakin University. His areas of interest include the treatment of complex medical/psychiatric comorbidities, the mind-body problem, consciousness theory, ethics, medical law, human rights, scientific theory and research methodology.