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Dr. Megan Baker
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| Employment |
November 2005 - present Medical Director of Comprehensive Breast
Care at
Hollings Cancer Center
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
July 2005 - present Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division Surgical
Oncology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Special Interest in Breast and Bariatric Surgery
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| Education
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2004 - 2005 Administrative Chief Resident, General Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
1999 - 2005 Resident, General Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
1995 - 1999 Wright State University School of Medicine
Dayton, Ohio
M.D., June 1999
1991-1995 Columbia University
New York, New York
B.A., Political Science, May 1995
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| Honors & Awards |
2004 Department of Surgery Administrative Chief Resident,
Medical University of South Carolina
2004 Department of Surgery Resident Teaching Award, Medical University
of South Carolina
2001 Golden Apple American Medical Student Association
Teaching Award
2000 Department of Surgery Intern of the Year, Medical University
of South Carolina
1999 Alpha Omega Alpha, Wright State University School of Medicine
1999 Dean's Scholastic Achievement Award, Wright State University
School of Medicine
1999 New Jersey Health Care Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award,
Wright State University School of Medicine
1998 Silver Scalpel Award, Wright State University School of Medicine
1997 American Heart Association Research Grant, Wright State University
School of Medicine
1995 Columbia Gold Crown Scholastic Achievement Award, Columbia
University
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| Membership |
2004 - present American Society of Breast
Surgeons
2003 - present Candidate member, American College of Surgeons
2000 - present Association of Women Surgeons
1999 - present South Carolina Medical Association
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| Committees |
2005 - present Member Palliative Care Committee, MUSC
2005 - present Member Department of Surgery Resident Research Committee,
MUSC
2005 - present Member Patient Care Committee, MUSC
2004 - present Associate Director 2006 Postgraduate Course in Surgery,
MUSC
2004 - 2005 Member Graduate Medical Education Committee
2004 - present Member Ambulatory OR committee, MUSC
2004 - 2005 Member Main OR committee, MUSC
2003 - present Association of Women Surgeons, fundraising committee
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| Certification |
1999 - present Advanced Trauma Life Support
1999 - 2001 Advanced Cardiac Life Support
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| Research & Grants |
June 2005 - present Wachovia High Risk Breast Cancer
Initiative, Clinical Leader
June 2005 - present Avon Patient Navigator Grant, Clinical Leader
June 2005 - present NSABP site Principal Investigator
August 2004 - present Ethicon Endosurgery grant. MUSC, Division
of Gastrointestinal Surgery. Principal Investigator: Megan K. Baker,
MD, co-PI : T. Karl Byrne, MD. Project: Laparoscopic gastric bypass
and its contribution to acute renal failure.
July 2001 - present Surgical Oncology Research Fellowship
MUSC, Division of Surgical Oncology
Principle Investigator: David J. Cole, M.D.
Objectives: I. Minimally Invasive Molecular Staging of Breast Cancer
Trial - to investigate the level of gene over-expression the peripheral
blood in Stage I and II breast cancer patients.
II. Peripheral Blood Pilot Study: optimize strategy for tumor cell
capture and molecular analysis in Stage IV breast cancer patients.
1997 - 1998 American Heart Association Research Grant
Wright State University, Department of General Surgery
Principle Investigator: Sidney Miller, M.D.
Objective: Retrospective analysis electrically injured patients
evaluating cardiac risk.
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| Publications |
Baker, MK, Lin, A, Crawford, FA. End of Life Care Curriculum
Development in an Academic Surgical Residency Program. Journal of
Palliative Medicine..2005. June 8(3): 659.
Baker, MK, Gillangers, WE, Mikhitarian, K. Mitas, M, Cole, DJ. The
Molecular Detection of Micrometastatic Breast Cancer. American Journal
of Surgery. 2003 Oct; 186(4): 351-8.
Baker, MK, Mikhitarian, K, Osta W, Callahan, K, Hoda, R. Brescia,
F, Kneuper-hall, R. Mtas M., Cole, DJ, Gillanders WE. Molecular
detection of breast cancer cells in the peripheral blood of advanced-stage
breast cancer patients using multimarker real-time reverse transcription-polymerase
chain reaction and a novel portous barrier density gradient centrifugation
technology. Clinical Cancer Research. 2003 Oct 15; 9(13):4865-71.
Baker, MK, Uflaker, R, Robison, JG. Stent-Graft Infection Following
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair -A Case Report. Journal of Vascular
Surgery 2002. July. Vol 36 (1): 180-183.
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| Abstracts |
Baker, MK, Mikhitarian, K, Mitas, M, Bloch, J, Brescia,
F, Kneuper-Hall, R, Gillanders, WE, Cole, DJ. A Novel Cell Enrichment/Real-time
PCR Method for Circulating Breast Cancer Cell Detection. Society of
University Surgeons Resident Forum, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2002.
Baker, MK, Johnson, MJ, Miller S. Cardiac Injury in the Electrically
Injured Patient. American Burn Association Annual Meeting, New York,
New York, March 1998.
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| Presentations |
Minimally Invasive Molecular Staging of Breast Cancer
Study - Interim Results. Kredel-Springs Lecture, MUSC Department of
Surgery, Charleston, South Carolina. May 2005.
Detection of Micrometastatic Breast Cancer in the Peripheral Blood.
South Carolina Chapter of American College of Surgeons, Sea Island,
Georgia. June 2003
A Novel Cell Enrichment/Real-time PCR Method for Circulating Breast
Cancer Cell Detection. Annual meeting of Society University Surgeons,
Resident Forum, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2002.
A Novel Cell Enrichment/Real-time PCR Method for Circulating Breast
Cancer Cell Detection. Horace G. Smithy Visiting Professorship, MUSC
Department of Surgery, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2001.
Cardiac Injury in the Electrically Injured Patient. Annual meeting
of American Burn Association, New York, New York, March 1998.
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