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

Narayanasamy, Shanti, Ahmad Mourad, Nicholas A. Turner, Thuy Le, Robert J. Rolfe, Nwora Lance Okeke, Sean M. O’Brien, et al. “COVID-19 Trials: Who Participates and Who Benefits?” South Med J 115, no. 4 (April 2022): 256–61. https://doi.org/10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001374.

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Saullo, Jennifer L., Arthur W. Baker, Laurie D. Snyder, John M. Reynolds, Lorenzo Zaffiri, Emily M. Eichenberger, Alana Ferrari, et al. “Cytomegalovirus prevention in thoracic organ transplantation: A single-center evaluation of letermovir prophylaxis.” J Heart Lung Transplant 41, no. 4 (April 2022): 508–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2021.12.005.

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35031206
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Davidson, Rebecca M., Sophie E. Nick, Sara M. Kammlade, Sruthi Vasireddy, Natalia Weakly, Nabeeh A. Hasan, L Elaine Epperson, et al. “Genomic Analysis of a Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Implications on Transmission.” J Clin Microbiol 60, no. 1 (January 19, 2022): e0154721. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01547-21.

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Baker, Arthur W., Iulian Ilieş, James C. Benneyan, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Katherine R. Foy, Sarah S. Lewis, Brittain A. Wood, et al. “93. Early Recognition and Response to Increases in Surgical Site Infections (SSI) using Optimized Statistical Process Control (SPC) Charts – the Early 2RIS Trial: A Multicenter Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT).” In Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 8:S59–60. Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab466.093.

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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 73, no. 3 (August 2, 2021): 524–27. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1237.

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32829397
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Haridy, S., A. Maged, A. W. Baker, M. Shamsuzzaman, H. Bashir, and M. Xie. “Monitoring scheme for early detection of coronavirus and other respiratory virus outbreaks.” Computers and Industrial Engineering 156 (June 1, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107235.

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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 72, no. 10 (May 18, 2021): e552–57. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1267.

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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 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Trends: A County-level Analysis of United States Data.” Clin Infect Dis 72, no. 10 (May 18, 2021): e604–7. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1374.

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Axfors, Cathrine, Andreas M. Schmitt, Perrine Janiaud, Janneke Van’t Hooft, Sherief Abd-Elsalam, Ehab F. Abdo, Benjamin S. Abella, et al. “Author Correction: Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials.” Nat Commun 12, no. 1 (May 14, 2021): 3001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23559-1.

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Asif, H., F. F. Rahaghi, A. Ohsumi, J. Philley, A. Emtiazjoo, T. Hirama, A. W. Baker, et al. “Recommendations for Management of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) in Lung Transplant Recipients: An International Delphi Study.” In American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 203, 2021.

Scholars@Duke

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