Dr. Baker is a Research Assistant Professor in the IFAS Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida (UF). After earning a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), Dr. Baker worked as a wildlife biologist with various federal, state, academic, and non-profit groups. She then returned to UW to earn her DVM with an emphasis in wildlife, exotic, and zoo animal medicine, as well as a Master of Science in Comparative Biomedical Science and a Special Species veterinary internship. Her veterinary externship and postdoctoral fellowship at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center focused on wildlife pathology and related research, which have remained a large focus in her career, both previously as a veterinarian at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and currently as co-PI and veterinarian for UF Marine Animal Rescue. Her areas of expertise include conservation medicine, aquatic animal health and welfare, environmental toxicology, wildlife diseases, and One Health.