Dr. Christopher Baker is Professor of Surgery at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, VA. He was educated at Harvard Medical School and received his surgical training at the University of California in San Francisco. His career in academic surgery as a general and trauma surgeon has spanned 40 years in six different instittutions. An afficionado of the martial arts, he has attained a third degree black belt from the American Taekwondo Association.