Infectious Diseases

Arthur Wakefield Baker, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Email address arthur.baker@duke.edu

Education and Training

  • Transplant Infectious Disease Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2014 - 2016
  • Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, 2012 - 2016
  • Internal Medicine Residency, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2008 - 2011
  • M.P.H., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2015
  • M.D., University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, 2008

Grants

Publications

Mourad, Ahmad, Nicholas A. Turner, Arthur W. Baker, Nwora Lance Okeke, Shanti Narayanasamy, Robert Rolfe, John J. Engemann, Gary M. Cox, and Jason E. Stout. “Social Disadvantage, Politics, and SARS-CoV-2 Trends: A County-Level Analysis of United States Data.” Clin Infect Dis, September 11, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1374.

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32918071
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Mourad, Ahmad, Arthur W. Baker, and Jason E. Stout. “Reduction in Expected Survival Associated with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease.” Clin Infect Dis, August 28, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1267.

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32856690
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Baker, Arthur W., Jason E. Stout, Deverick J. Anderson, Daniel J. Sexton, Becky Smith, Rebekah W. Moehring, Kirk Huslage, Christopher J. Hostler, and Sarah S. Lewis. “Tap Water Avoidance Decreases Rates of Hospital-Onset Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria.” Clin Infect Dis, August 23, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1237.

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32829397
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Ilieş, Iulian, Deverick J. Anderson, Joseph Salem, Arthur W. Baker, Margo Jacobsen, and James C. Benneyan. “Large-scale empirical optimisation of statistical control charts to detect clinically relevant increases in surgical site infection rates.” Bmj Qual Saf 29, no. 6 (June 2020): 472–81. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2018-008976.

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31704893
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Baker, Arthur W., Nicole Nehls, Iulian Ilieş, James C. Benneyan, and Deverick J. Anderson. “Use of optimised dual statistical process control charts for early detection of surgical site infection outbreaks.” Bmj Qual Saf 29, no. 6 (June 2020): 517–20. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2019-010586.

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32317357
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Abate, Getahun, Jack T. Stapleton, Nadine Rouphael, Buddy Creech, Jason E. Stout, Hana M. El Sahly, Lisa Jackson, et al. “Variability in the Management of Adults with Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease.” Clin Infect Dis, March 21, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa252.

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32198521
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Baker, Arthur W., Eileen K. Maziarz, Sarah S. Lewis, Jason E. Stout, Deverick J. Anderson, Peter K. Smith, Jacob N. Schroder, et al. “Invasive Mycobacterium abscessus Complex Infection after Cardiac Surgery: Epidemiology, Management, and Clinical Outcomes.” Clin Infect Dis, March 5, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa215.

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32133489
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Ilieş, Iulian, James C. Benneyan, Tiago Barbieri Couto Jabur, Arthur W. Baker, and Deverick J. Anderson. “Impact of molecular testing on reported Clostridoides difficile infection rates.” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 41, no. 3 (March 2020): 306–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2019.327.

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31852562
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Baker, Arthur W., Eileen K. Maziarz, Christopher J. Arnold, Melissa D. Johnson, Adrienne D. Workman, John M. Reynolds, John R. Perfect, and Barbara D. Alexander. “Invasive Fungal Infection After Lung Transplantation: Epidemiology in the Setting of Antifungal Prophylaxis.” Clin Infect Dis 70, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 30–39. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz156.

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30801642
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