Lone Star Orthopedics
SURGICAL PRACTICE
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ALWAYS READY TO ASSIST YOU
Dr. Baker and his staff try to provide rapid service for you.
We usually can see you in just a day or two and sometimes
same day appointments with the doctor.
We will always try to accomadate
you if our schedule permits.
We are on most insurance plans, accept Medicare,
and worker's compenstion. Dr. Baker is a
DWC-certified designated doctor.
At Lone Star Orthopedics, it all about you.
Quality Caring Service
This is what you will find with me and my staff at Lone Star Orthopedics. We follow the Golden Rule
in our practice and find it to work well. We realize that you have a choice of where to get your
medical care, and we appreciate it when you allow us to provide care for you.
You are not a profit-center. You are a person, and we treat you the way that
we would want to be treated.
WIDE EXPERIENCE & YEARS OF PRACTICE
Dr. Baker graduated with the highest honors from Tulane University and Tulane Medical School and trained in orthopedic surgery at Baylor in the Texas Medical Center at Houston. He has been in practice since 1993.
After graduating summa cum laude from Tulane in Biology with a GPA of 3.98, he received his M.D. degree from Tulane School of Medicine (’88), where he was elected to the AOA Honor Medical Society. He then completed an orthopedic surgery residency at the prestiguous Baylor College of Medicine-Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center at Houston. Following his residency training he was assigned to Keesler AFB, MS to serve four years in the Air Force to pay back a military scholarship to medical school before beginning his practice in Louisiana.
Dr. Baker is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, as well as a lifetime member of the American Medical Association. He has been active in organized medicine, having served as president of the St. Bernard Parish Medical Society as well as serving on the Louisiana State Medical Society Council on Legislation and Insurance Committee.
To maintain board certification, orthopedic doctors are required to re-certify every ten years after having extensive continuing medical education and peer review. In 1994 Dr. Baker re-certified in the 94th percentile, that is in the top 6% of all orthopedists, with the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons (ABOS). He re-certified with the ABOS again 2013 in the 93rd percentile, again placing his score near the top for orthopedic surgeons testing that year.
During his training he co-authored several articles in the medical literature. The articles are listed in his curriculum vitae below.
