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Jeffrey Paul Baker

Jeffrey Paul Baker

Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
jeffrey.baker@duke.edu
Box 3675 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
234 Crooked Creek Parkway, Durham, NC 27713

Selected Publications

Forgotten Pediatrics: 8 Disturbing Windows on the Past.

Journal Article Pediatrics · September 1, 2023 The 75 years since Pediatrics was first published has witnessed an explosion of the scientific knowledge base informing child health. Yet, the path leading to the present has not been linear. We examine several articles that illustrate some of the unexpect ... Full text Link to item Cite

History of Medicine in the Clerkships: A Novel Model for Integrating Medicine and History.

Journal Article J Hist Med Allied Sci · March 23, 2023 The history of medicine has only unevenly been integrated into medical education. Previous attempts to incorporate the subject have focused either on the first year, with its already over-subscribed curriculum, or the fourth year in the form of electives t ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

A scalable computational approach to assessing response to name in toddlers with autism.

Journal Article J Child Psychol Psychiatry · September 2021 BACKGROUND: This study is part of a larger research program focused on developing objective, scalable tools for digital behavioral phenotyping. We evaluated whether a digital app delivered on a smartphone or tablet using computer vision analysis (CVA) can ... Full text Link to item Cite

Computational Methods to Measure Patterns of Gaze in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Journal Article JAMA Pediatr · August 1, 2021 IMPORTANCE: Atypical eye gaze is an early-emerging symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and holds promise for autism screening. Current eye-tracking methods are expensive and require special equipment and calibration. There is a need for scalable, fea ... Full text Link to item Cite

Digital Behavioral Phenotyping Detects Atypical Pattern of Facial Expression in Toddlers with Autism.

Journal Article Autism Res · March 2021 Commonly used screening tools for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) generally rely on subjective caregiver questionnaires. While behavioral observation is more objective, it is also expensive, time-consuming, and requires significant expertise to perform. As ... Full text Link to item Cite

Computer Vision Analysis for Quantification of Autism Risk Behaviors.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Affect Comput · 2021 Observational behavior analysis plays a key role for the discovery and evaluation of risk markers for many neurodevelopmental disorders. Research on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggests that behavioral risk markers can be observed at 12 months of age or ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of a digital Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers-Revised on likelihood and age of autism diagnosis and referral for developmental evaluation.

Journal Article Autism · October 2020 This was a project in primary care for young children (1-2 years old). We tested a parent questionnaire on a tablet. This tablet questionnaire asked questions to see whether the child may have autism. We compared the paper and pencil version of the questio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Author Correction: Atypical postural control can be detected via computer vision analysis in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder.

Journal Article Sci Rep · January 14, 2020 An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Computer vision analysis captures atypical attention in toddlers with autism.

Journal Article Autism · April 2019 To demonstrate the capability of computer vision analysis to detect atypical orienting and attention behaviors in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder. One hundered and four toddlers of 16-31 months old (mean = 22) participated in this study. Twenty-two ... Full text Link to item Cite

Frosted Intellectuals: How Dr. Leo Kanner Constructed the Autistic Family.

Journal Article Perspect Biol Med · 2019 Dr. Leo Kanner, in his delineation of autism as a clinical entity, is also remembered for having created a powerful stereotype of parents of autistic children as highly educated, intelligent, and emotionally distant. As historians have come to understand t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Atypical postural control can be detected via computer vision analysis in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder.

Journal Article Sci Rep · November 19, 2018 Evidence suggests that differences in motor function are an early feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One aspect of motor ability that develops during childhood is postural control, reflected in the ability to maintain a steady head and body positio ... Full text Link to item Cite

History Lesson: Vaccine Trials in the Classroom.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · August 2018 Full text Link to item Cite

Automatic emotion and attention analysis of young children at home: a ResearchKit autism feasibility study.

Journal Article NPJ Digit Med · 2018 Current tools for objectively measuring young children's observed behaviors are expensive, time-consuming, and require extensive training and professional administration. The lack of scalable, reliable, and validated tools impacts access to evidence-based ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Eugenics and the Origins of Autism.

Journal Article Pediatrics · August 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

Use of a Digital Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers - Revised with Follow-up to Improve Quality of Screening for Autism.

Journal Article J Pediatr · April 2017 OBJECTIVES: To assess changes in quality of care for children at risk for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) due to process improvement and implementation of a digital screening form. STUDY DESIGN: The process of screening for ASD was studied in an academic p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship With Immunization

Journal Article NURSING HISTORY REVIEW · January 1, 2017 Link to item Cite

A scalable app for measuring autism risk behaviors in young children: A technical validity and feasibility study

Journal Article Proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare · 2015 Link to item Cite

Autism at 70--redrawing the boundaries.

Journal Article N Engl J Med · September 19, 2013 Full text Link to item Cite

The first measles vaccine.

Journal Article Pediatrics · September 2011 Full text Link to item Cite

Autism in 1959: Joey the mechanical boy.

Journal Article Pediatrics · June 2010 Full text Link to item Cite

Introducing historical perspectives.

Journal Article Pediatrics · March 2010 Full text Link to item Cite

Baker responds

Journal Article American Journal of Public Health · August 1, 2008 Full text Cite

Mercury, vaccines, and autism: one controversy, three histories.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · February 2008 Featured Publication The controversy regarding the once widely used mercury-containing preservative thimerosal in childhood vaccines has raised many historical questions that have not been adequately explored. Why was this preservative incorporated in the first place? Was ther ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lessons from the past.

Journal Article Semin Fetal Neonatal Med · February 2005 This article considers errors of care in neonatology. In the 19th century errors that resulted in high infant mortality were shaped by the social environment, and in this setting the development of the incubator failed. In the early 20th century, with the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Childhood vaccine development: an overview.

Journal Article Pediatr Res · February 2004 Featured Publication Vaccines against childhood diseases represent some of the most important applications of 20th-century pediatric research. This survey examines how the components of the current U.S. immunization schedule emerged in three phases during the course of the cen ... Full text Link to item Cite

The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986.

Journal Article Vaccine · September 8, 2003 Featured Publication This historical essay analyzes the role played by Great Britain in the pertussis vaccine controversy of the 1970s and 1980s. Public backlash against this vaccine not only took place earlier in Britain than the United States, but also was so widespread that ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine (review)

Journal Article Bulletin of the History of Medicine · June 2000 Full text Cite

Immunization and the American way: 4 childhood vaccines.

Journal Article Am J Public Health · February 2000 Featured Publication Childhood immunization constitutes one of the great success stories of American public health in the 20th century. This essay provides a historical examination of this topic through 4 particularly important examples: diphtheria, pertussis, polio, and measl ... Full text Link to item Cite

The incubator and the medical discovery of the premature infant.

Journal Article J Perinatol · 2000 Featured Publication The invention of the incubator in 1880 ignited a dramatic outpouring of popular and professional excitement over the prospect of reducing premature infant mortality. Yet the technology itself progressed slowly and fitfully over the next 50 years. The story ... Full text Link to item Cite

Newborn Medicine and Society: European Background and American Practice (1750-1975) (review)

Journal Article Bulletin of the History of Medicine · December 1999 Full text Cite

The birth of bioethics.

Journal Article Pediatrics · July 1999 Full text Link to item Cite

Women and the invention of well child care.

Journal Article Pediatrics · October 1994 Link to item Cite

WOMEN AND THE INVENTION OF WELL CHILD-CARE

Journal Article PEDIATRICS · October 1, 1994 Link to item Cite

Toy balloons and eye injuries.

Journal Article Pediatrics · March 1988 Link to item Cite