Dr. Baker is a postdoctoral scholar specializing in pain neuroscience and pain medicine at the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine. She holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of Utah, where she worked under the mentorship of Eric Garland. Her work focuses on the neurobiological correlates of chronic pain using simultaneous fMRI and experimental heat pain stimulation. She is also interested in the neural correlates of mindfulness-based interventions, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and their combination with psychedelic-assisted therapies. The ABHA lab collaborates with Dr. Baker on a Varela grant funded by the Mind and Life Institute that aims to study the impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on spinal cord activity in chronic pain.