Sidney M. Baker, MD

Dr. Baker is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and received his undergraduate, medical, and medical postgraduate training from Yale University where he served was Chief Resident in Pediatrics 1968-1969 and then on the full time medical faculty as an Assistant Professor of Medical Computer Sciences with appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics from 1969 to 1971. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics.

He has practiced in Chad Africa, where he was a Peace Corps Volunteer, and in family practice for seven years in New Haven. He was Director of the Gesell Institute of Human Development in New Haven for seven years (1978-1985). Currently he is in private practice in Connecticut and New York.

He is the co-author of two Gesell Institute books on child development. He is the author of Detoxification and Healing (McGraw Hill, 2003) and The Circadian Prescription (Putnam/Penguin, 2000). He is co-author of Biomedical Assessment Options For Children with Autism and Related Problems, Published by The Autism Research Institute. 4182 Adams Avenue, San Diego, CA 92116. He was the 1999 recipient of the Linus Pauling Award of the Institute for Functional Medicine for his contributions to the development of Functional Medicine.

Dr. Baker can be reached at Sidneymb@aol.com