David W. Baker, MD, MPH
Senior Advisor
David
W. Baker, MD, MPH is Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief
of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Feinberg School
of Medicine, Northwestern University. He received his MD from
the UCLA School of Medicine and his MPH from the UCLA School of
Public Health. His research interests include quality of care
for cardiovascular disease and reducing healthcare disparities.
He was the Associate Project Director for the AHCPR-funded Heart
Failure guideline and lead author for a series of manuscripts
in JAMA summarizing this work. He served on the American Heart
Association's working group for measuring quality of care
and outcomes for cardiovascular disease, the American College
of Cardiology/American Heart Association Heart Failure Practice
Guideline Committee, and the American Board of Internal Medicine's
Committee for their Heart Failure Practice Improvement Module.
He has published extensively on the effects of race, ethnicity,
language, and literacy on health care use, quality of care, and
health outcomes. In recent years he led a project to develop a
new system to measures patients' self-reported race, ethnicity,
and language, which has now been implemented at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital.
