Dr. Baker is the inaugural Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use, physician consultant for the Massachusetts Consultation Service for the Treatment of Addiction and Pain (MCSTAP), Dr. James Baker has witnessed the wide-reaching, nefarious impacts of the opioid epidemic as both a parent and a medical professional. While a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he was asked by the White House to join the staff of the Presidential Commission on the HIV Epidemic. He then served for more than ten years in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School before pursuing a career in hospice and palliative medicine. He has presented to Congress on addiction policy, met with federal, state, and local elected officials to advocate for change, and has shared his story on PBS, NPR, BBC, WBZ Evening News in Boston, and in the Wall Street Journal