
Makes complex topics easy to understand.
Brings real-world examples to learning.
Encourages independent and critical thought.
Always fair, encouraging, and motivating.
Great Professor!
Conjoint Associate Professor Gary Baker is a faculty member in the School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He possesses the qualifications BSc(Med), MBBS, PhD from the Faculty of Medicine completed in 1989, FRACP, FAFPHM, and FAFOEM. As a Senior Consultant Physician and Conjoint Associate Professor in the Joint Medicine Programme, Baker engages in medical education and research activities at the institution. His academic contributions are documented through a body of peer-reviewed publications spanning over three decades, from 1987 to 2021, focusing on respiratory medicine, sleep-disordered breathing, and occupational health risks.
Key publications by Gary Baker include "Monosodium L-glutamate-induced asthma" (1987), "The Australian Mesothelioma Program: Recent research results" (1991), "Prediction of silicosis and lung cancer in the Australian labor force exposed to silica" (1993), "Clinical aspects of malignant mesothelioma in Australia" (1993), "Contactless monitoring for sleep disordered-breathing, respiratory and cardiac co-morbidity in an elderly independent living cohort" (2015), "Tracking crackles of Interstitial Lung Disease during sleep" (2018), "Effects of positive airway pressure (PAP) modalities on central apnea and crackles in heart failure" (2020), and "Measurement of crackles during sleep may have a role to play in titration of positive airway pressure (PAP) modalities in heart failure" (2021). ResearchGate profiles his 22 publications with 477 citations. Baker has also contributed to public health discourse by signing an open letter from Doctors for the Environment Australia on the health hazards of coal, oil, and gas, listed with his full qualifications and title.