Alison Baker

Associate Clinical Professor, Family Medicine

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Alison Baker is a family physician in Brantford, Ontario, and an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University. She teaches medical students and family medicine residents through the Brantford Indigenous Health Hub Clinical Education Campus. She is the Assessment Director and Chair of the Central Competence Committee for McMaster’s Department of Family of Medicine Residency Program. She is a Fellow in the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and holds a Clinician Educator Area of Focused Competence from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. She is the recipient of the DFM 2017 Excellence in Pre-Clerkship teaching award. She is Chair of the CFPC’s National Assessment Community of Practice and sits on the College’s Certification Process and Assessment Committee. She is Chair of the CFPC's Section of Teachers Family Medicine Forum Planning Committee and Ally Co-Facilitator of the CFPC's Community of Practice for Indigenous Health in Family Medicine Education. She is the co-representative for McMaster on the Canadian Association for Medical Education Board. 

Her research activities include using simulation to teach essential conversations in palliative care, identifying opportunities for increasing access to palliative care, and examining motivations for pursuing enhanced skill credentials in family medicine. She is the lead physician for the Brant Family Health Organization and on the Executive Committee at Avenue Medical Centre.