Dr Baker, who is board-certified in both adult and child/adolescent psychiatry, has practiced and taught child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry and has provided consultation-liaison and crisis-stabilization services at several Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals. From 2016 to 2022 she was chief psychiatrist in the Residential Treatment Program at the Italian Home for Children in Boston. She is a contributing member of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School.