Associate Chair of Clinical Integration and Services
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Dr. James Baker serves as Associate Chair of Clinical Integration and Services in the Department of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School. Dr. Baker also serves as Systems Chief Medical Officer for Integral Care, the community mental health center for Austin and Travis County. He is a child/adolescent psychiatrist with over twenty years of medical administrative experience in behavioral health, including service as Chief Executive Officer of the community mental health center for Dallas County and as Medical Director for Behavioral Health with the Texas Department of State Health Services. Dr. Baker is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a recipient of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Exemplary Psychiatrist Award as well as the Mental Health America of Greater Dallas Pamela Blumenthal Memorial Award for long-term commitment to quality of care and delivery of services to people with mental illnesses.