Program Co-leader: Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship (developing program)
Research Programs: Prevention & Etiology, Transplant Biology and Therapy
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

baker084@umn.edu
612-625-4952 — office

Dr. Baker's clinical profile
(University of Minnesota Physicians Web site)

Research Interests

Dr. Baker's research is focused on the use of epidemiologic methods to study treatment related acute and long-term complications in survivors after hematopoietic stem cell transplant. This research forms the basis for his current grant support in which the incidence, risk factors, and characteristics of cardiopulmonary, renal, endocrine, reproductive late effects and quality of life outcomes in long-term survivors after transplantation are being studied. Dr. Baker is also the principal investigator for several hematopoietic stem cell transplant clinical trials.

Selected Publications

Punyko JA, Mertens AC, Gurney JG, Yasui Y, Donaldson SS, Rodeberg DA, Raney RB, Stovall M, Sklar CA, Robison LL, Baker KS. Long-term medical effects of childhood and adolescent rhabdomyosarcoma: a report from the childhood cancer survivor study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2005 Jun 15;44(7):643-53

Peters A, Manivel JC, Dolan M, Gulbahce HE, Baker KS, Verneris MR. Pulmonary cytolytic thrombi after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation: a further histologic description. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2005 Jun; 11(6):484-5.

Bhatia S, Robison LL, Francisco L, Carter A, Liu Y, Grant M, Baker KS, Fung H, Gurney JG, McGlave PB, Nademanee A, Ramsay NK, Stein A, Weisdorf DJ, Forman SJ. Late mortality in survivors of autologous hematopoietic-cell transplantation: report from the Bone Marrow Transplant Survivor Study. Blood. 2005 Jun 1; 105(11):4215-22.

Punyko JA, Mertens AC, Baker KS, Ness KK, Robison LL, Gurney JG. Long-term survival probabilities for childhood rhabdomyosarcoma. A population-based evaluation. Cancer. 2005 Apr 1; 103(7):1475-83.

Ness KK, Oakes JM, Punyko JA, Baker KS, Gurney JG. Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in relation to self-reported cancer history. Ann Epidemiol. 2005 Mar; 15(3):202-6.