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 at Chapel Hill, 2015
  • M.D., University of Kentucky College of Medicine, 2008

Grants

Publications

Baker, AW, Haridy, S, Salem, J, Ilieş, I, Ergai, AO, Samareh, A, Andrianas, N, Benneyan, JC, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Performance of statistical process control methods for regional surgical site infection surveillance: a 10-year multicentre pilot study." Bmj Quality & Safety 27, no. 8 (August 2018): 600-610.

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29175853
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Seidelman, J, Baker, AW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, and Lewis, SS. "Do Periarticular Joint Infections Present an Increase in Infection Risk?." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 39, no. 7 (July 2018): 890-891.

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29655381
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Moehring, RW, Dodds Ashley, ES, Ren, X, Lokhnygina, Y, Baker, AW, Jones, TM, Lewis, SS, Sexton, DJ, Anderson, DJ, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenters Program, . "Denominator Matters in Estimating Antimicrobial Use: A Comparison of Days Present and Patient Days." Infection control and hospital epidemiology (March 26, 2018): 1-4.

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29576019
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Baker, AW, Edmond, MB, Herwaldt, LA, Chen, LF, Srikantaswamy, S, and Sexton, DJ. "Real-Time Surveillance of Influenza Morbidity: Tracking Intensive Care Unit Resource Utilization." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 14, no. 12 (December 2017): 1810-1817.

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28799774
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Seidelman, J, Dicks, KV, Durkin, MJ, Baker, AW, Moehring, RW, Anderson, DJ, Sexton, DJ, Chen, LF, and Lewis, SS. "Using Clinical Scenarios to Understand Preventability of Clostridium difficile Infections by Inpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Programs." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 38, no. 6 (June 2017): 747-749.

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28285605
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Baker, AW, Lewis, SS, Alexander, BD, Chen, LF, Wallace, RJ, Brown-Elliott, BA, Isaacs, PJ, Pickett, LC, Patel, CB, Smith, PK, Reynolds, JM, Engel, J, Wolfe, CR, Milano, CA, Schroder, JN, Davis, RD, Hartwig, MG, Stout, JE, Strittholt, N, Maziarz, EK, Saullo, JH, Hazen, KC, Walczak, RJ, Vasireddy, R, Vasireddy, S, McKnight, CM, Anderson, DJ, and Sexton, DJ. "Two-Phase Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Investigation and Mitigation." Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 64, no. 7 (April 2017): 902-911.

PMID
28077517
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Wolfe, CR, Baker, AW, Patel, CB, Patel, PA, Milano, CA, Schroder, JN, Daneshmand, MA, Alexander, BD, and Maziarz, EK. "Mycobacterium Abscessus Infection in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices." April 2017.

Scholars@Duke

Maziarz, EK, Baker, AW, Patel, CB, Patel, P, Milano, CA, Schroder, JN, Daneshmand, MA, Alexander, BD, and Wolfe, CR. "Invasive Mycobacterium abscessus Infection in Heart Transplant Recipients." April 2017.

Scholars@Duke

Dicks, KV, Anderson, DJ, Baker, AW, Sexton, DJ, and Lewis, SS. "Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Related to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Community Hospitals." Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 38, no. 1 (January 2017): 31-38.

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27724988
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Baker, AW, Dicks, KV, Durkin, MJ, Weber, DJ, Lewis, SS, Moehring, RW, Chen, LF, Sexton, DJ, and Anderson, DJ. "Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infection in a Community Hospital Network." Infection control and hospital epidemiology 37, no. 5 (May 2016): 519-526.

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26864617
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