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.