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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
