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Sarah Baker, M.D.

Sarah Baker, M.D.

Assoc Dean for Student Affairs, UT Southwestern Med School

Assistant Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Associate Dean for Student Affairs | Psychiatry

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  • Biography

    Sarah E. Baker, M.D., M.A., serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). Dr. Baker holds a B.A. in History from Rice University, as well as an M.A. in Medical Humanities and an M.D. from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). Her graduate studies focused on the cultivation of empathy during medical training. She completed her general psychiatry residency at UTSW. During her residency, she was the recipient of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry Fellowship, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law’s Rappeport Fellowship, and the Association for Academic Psychiatry Fellowship Award, along with the Residency Education Committee Award for Excellence and the Outstanding Resident Contribution to Medical Student Education Award at UTSW. After graduation, Dr. Baker completed a forensic psychiatry fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. 

    Dr. Baker currently serves as an Associate Dean for Student Affairs for the medical school and leads the Mental Health, Policy, and Law area of concentration for the psychiatry residency program. She previously served as the Psychiatry Clerkship Director at UTSW. As a faculty member, she has won the UTSW Faculty Medical Student Education Award in the Department of Psychiatry and the Association for Academic Psychiatry Early Career Development Award. Dr. Baker’s academic interests include forensic psychiatry, community psychiatry, advocacy, and medical education. She is board certified in psychiatry and in forensic psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.​​

  • Education
    Other Post Graduate Training
    UT Medical Branch at Galveston (2013)
    Graduate School
    UT Medical Branch at Galveston (2013), Medical Education
    Medical School
    UT Medical Branch at Galveston (2014), Medicine
    Residency
    UT Southwestern Medical Center (2018), Psychiatry
    Fellowship
    Yale School of Medicine, Division of Law and Psychiatry (2019), Forensic Psychiatry
  • Publications

    Star Featured Publications

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    Manikin-Based Simulation: an Update to the Clerkship Experience.
    Baker SE, Escamilla K, Jacobs M, Sherhart R, Trello-Rishel K, Fuehrlein B, Acad Psychiatry 2021 May
    Adult ADHD: Pharmacologic treatment in the DSM-5 era
    Parikh A, Baker S Current Psychiatry 2016 15 10 18-25
  • Honors & Awards
    • Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Faculty Inductee
      UTSW Chapter of AOA (2023)
    • Early Career Development Award
      Association for Academic Psychiatry (2022)
    • Fellowship Award
      Association for Academic Psychiatry (2017)
    • Rappeport Fellowship
      American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (2017)
    • Fellowship
      Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (2016)
    • Gold Humanism Honor Society
      (2013)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (2016)
    • American Medical Association (2009)
    • American Psychiatric Association (2014)
    • Association for Academic Psychiatry (2016)
    • Texas Medical Association (2009)
    • Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (2014)