Faculty

Ralph Corey, MD - HYC Director | Christopher Woods, MD - HYC Co-Director | John Hamilton, MD
John Bartlett, MD | Nathan Thielman, MD | Vance Fowler, MD | David Walmer, MD
Carol Dukes Hamilton, MD | J. Brice Weinberg MD | Barth Reller MD | John Crump MD
Kathleen Clem, MD | Truls Ostbye, MD, PhD | Kathryn Whetten, PhD | Dennis Clements, MD, PhD
Cheryl Baker, MD

Staff

Cynthia Binanay, RN, BSN, MA - HYC Program Director | Cecelia Pezdek - Global Health Residency Program Coordinator | Carlee Reimer - HYC Program Assistant

Cheryl A. Baker, MD

Duke University Medical Center

Cheryl Baker, M.D. is an Assistant Consulting Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. She joined the faculty in January 1999 and was promoted to Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in 2003, where she served as a clinician and educator for the division of General Internal Medicine until July 2006. During that time, Dr. Baker had a diverse patient practice, and taught and mentored residents in outpatient internal medicine.  Dr. Baker joined the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Duke Global Health in July 2006, to work on expanding medical education and training for residents and students in resource poor environments locally, nationally and internationally. Her first project will be to identify and develop a medical training site for residents and students in Central America.

Prior to joining the Duke University Medical Center faculty, Dr Baker completed a 2-year graduate program at Yale University School of Medicine in Allied Health. In 1995, Dr. Baker graduated cum laude from Albany Medical College.  While there, she received the Janet Glasgow Memorial Achievement citation for outstanding scholarship and was elected to the AOA honor society.  She completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Columbia University’s Bassett Hospital in New York and is board certified in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Baker spent 3 months in southern and central India on international health electives as a predoctoral student.  While there she participated in rural community health and development projects, attended ward electives at Christian Medical College in Vellore, and worked in a small village clinic in central India.  She has volunteered in migrant farm worker camps in California and studied Spanish in Guatemala.