Dr. Paul Baker is an Assistant Professor, Clinician Educator in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and currently serves as the Designated Institutional Official (DIO) for graduate medical education at Butler Hospital. His teaching interests include psychotherapy education as a core component of psychiatry training.
Dr. Baker completed undergraduate study at The University of Georgia with a degree in psychology, followed by medical school at the Medical College of Georgia / University of Georgia Medical Partnership, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism honor societies. He then completed residency in Psychiatry at Brown University. During residency, he also completed a one-year training in psychodynamic psychotherapy with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is currently an attending psychiatrist at Butler Hospital, working in the Young Adult Partial Hospital Program as well as the outpatient department. He serves as an assistant director of psychotherapy training, and his teaching roles include supervision in psychopharmacology as well as psychotherapy for the adult psychiatry residency.
