Ray Baker MD (ret.)

Fellow, American Society of Addiction Medicine,

Diplomate of American Board of Addiction Medicine

Associate Clinical Professor

UBC Faculty of Medicine

After 12 years of rural family medicine and over 30 years as a consultant in Occupational Addiction Medicine, Ray retired from clinical practice to focus on what we are starting to call Recovery Medicine. He developed the University of British Columbia Addiction Medicine curriculum and wrote a chapter on alcoholism in Conn’s Current Therapy, a medical textbook. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the editorial board of the Journal of Addictive Diseases. Ray is a Recovery Coach trainer and is in the process of publishing Recovery Coaching: Knowledge and Skills, a training manual. As a member of Canada’s National Recovery Research Expert Advisory committee, he helped design and interpret Canada’s Life in Recovery Survey (2016). In long-term recovery from addiction, Ray became a late-life marathoner, triathlete and the proud grandfather of five-year-old grand-twins. This year Ray and Agnes celebrated 52 years of not-always-serene but, thanks in part to their continued involvement in their own recovery activities, remarkably improved, marriage.