Emma Baker (clinical pharmacologist)

Emma Harriet Baker is a British professor of clinical pharmacology and consultant physician in internal medicine at St George's Hospital, London. She has a specialist interest in people who have multiple medical conditions at the same time and take several medications, with a particular focus on lung disease. She is director of the UK's first BSc in clinical pharmacology, clinical vice president of the British Pharmacological Society and training programme director at Health Education England.

Baker was executive editor of the ''British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology'' for 10 years. Her research led to the publication of ''The Top 100 Drugs: Clinical Pharmacology and Practical Prescribing'' (2015 and 2019) after identifying the most important and commonly prescribed drugs in the NHS.

During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, she was a frontline healthcare professional on respiratory wards. She is listed as a principal investigator in the Cambridge COVID-19 trials.

After being elected best teacher 1998–2002 by her medical students, her hands feature alongside those of Edward Jenner, John Hunter and others in the sculpture titled "Handing on Skills, Ideas and Ideals", unveiled in 2002 at St George's to celebrate its 250-year anniversary of medical training. Provided by Wikipedia