Ray Baker MD, FCFP, FASAM
Associate Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Medical Educator, Recovery Coach, Recovery Coach Training Consultant
Ray Baker is associate Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia., certified in both Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine.
He designed and directed the first comprehensive Addiction Medicine Curriculum at University of British Columbia’s Medical School. From 1993 to 1997 he represented Canada on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Dr Baker served as principal author for British Columbia first standards of practice in Addiction Medicine, adopted as policy by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. He served as principal author of the Medical Rules for Safety Critical Railway Workers with Substance Use Disorders, in force for over a decade in Canada’s Railway Industry. He has served as principal investigator on a major research project for the World Health Organization and in several stage 2-4 clinical trials investigating experimental treatments for smoking cessation, cocaine dependence, obesity and chronic back pain. As a member of the Canadian Centre on Substance Use Research Expert Advisory Committee he helped design, implement and interpret Canada’s Life in Recovery Survey in 2016.
He has testified in provincial and Supreme court, arbitration and disciplinary hearings as an expert witness in areas of Addiction Medicine (medical, neurobiological, pharmacological, psychological and social effects of mood-altering substances), chronic pain and the other invisible disabilities. For more than 30 years his primary focus was on occupational addiction medicine, the interface between addictions, the workplace, organized labor, employees and their families.
In 2022 he received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine.
Ray is a person in active long-term recovery from addiction.
Associate Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Medical Educator, Recovery Coach, Recovery Coach Training Consultant
Ray Baker is associate Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia., certified in both Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine.
He designed and directed the first comprehensive Addiction Medicine Curriculum at University of British Columbia’s Medical School. From 1993 to 1997 he represented Canada on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Dr Baker served as principal author for British Columbia first standards of practice in Addiction Medicine, adopted as policy by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. He served as principal author of the Medical Rules for Safety Critical Railway Workers with Substance Use Disorders, in force for over a decade in Canada’s Railway Industry. He has served as principal investigator on a major research project for the World Health Organization and in several stage 2-4 clinical trials investigating experimental treatments for smoking cessation, cocaine dependence, obesity and chronic back pain. As a member of the Canadian Centre on Substance Use Research Expert Advisory Committee he helped design, implement and interpret Canada’s Life in Recovery Survey in 2016.
He has testified in provincial and Supreme court, arbitration and disciplinary hearings as an expert witness in areas of Addiction Medicine (medical, neurobiological, pharmacological, psychological and social effects of mood-altering substances), chronic pain and the other invisible disabilities. For more than 30 years his primary focus was on occupational addiction medicine, the interface between addictions, the workplace, organized labor, employees and their families.
In 2022 he received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine.
Ray is a person in active long-term recovery from addiction.
