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Dr. Glen Bryan Baker, BSP’70, MSc’72, PhD’74, DSc’00

Dr. Baker is a Tier I Canada Research Chair and a former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta. His research deals primarily with the etiology of psychiatric disorders and the mechanisms of drugs used to treat them. He has been involved extensively in the supervision of research trainees, editorial work, and service to the scientific community. His honours and awards are many, including the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology medal, McCalla and Killam Professorships, the University of Alberta Excellence in Mentoring Award, the Alumni Award of Achievement from the University of Saskatchewan in 2006.