Jeffrey P. Baker, MD, PhD

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• Children's Primary Care

Department / Division:
Pediatrics / Primary Care Pediatrics

Address:
DUMC 3675
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
(919) 620-5333

Office Telephone:
(919) 620-5374

Fax Telephone:
(919) 572-6000

• M.D., Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina, 1984

• Pediatrics, University of Colorado, 1984-88

• Ambulatory Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1988-1991

• Ph.D., Duke University, North Carolina, 1993

Clinical Interests:
General pediatrics

Research Interests:
My formal training (PhD) is in the history of medicine. I am particularly interested in the history of Pediatrics in the following areas of study.
- Neonatal Medicine
- Preventive Pediatrics
- Childhood Immunizations
I am currently working on an NLM grant on The History of Childhood Immunization in the US Since 1950.

Representative Publications:
Baker, Jeffrey P.  The Machine in the Nursery: Incubator Technology and  the Origins of Newborn Intensive Care (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) (1996)

Baker JP, Katz SL. Childhood vaccine development: an overview. Pediatr Res. 2004 Feb;55(2):347-56. (2004) Abstract

Baker JP. The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986. Vaccine. 2003 Sep 8;21(25-26):4003-10. (2003) Abstract

Baker JP. Immunization and the American way: 4 childhood vaccines. Am J Public Health. 2000 Feb;90(2):199-207. (2000) Abstract