Keith Baker

Keith Baker, MD, PhD

Vice Chair for Education and Faculty Affairs for the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medication at the Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Keith Baker, M.D., Ph.D. is Vice Chair for Education and Faculty Affairs for the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medical at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Baker was the Anesthesia residency Program Director at the MGH for 15 years. He developed an extensive didactic curriculum that continues as the core didactics for the residency. He also developed a system for having residents evaluate faculty clinical teaching. This process led to enhanced clinical teaching by the faculty. He also developed a system for evaluating resident clinical performance which allows focused educational intervention aimed at improving resident performance. More recently he has been focusing on expert performance. He has led a seminar series for residents, fellows, and faculty on expert performance. He was named the Partners Healthcare Outstanding Program Director in 2013 and was awarded the ACGME Parker J. Palmer “Courage to Teach Award” in 2014. He is an America Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) Senior Examiner and is on the ACGME Anesthesiology Review Committee.