David Baker is a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School and a visiting senior lecturer of medical toxicology at King’s College London. Dr. Baker studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and has worked as a consultant in anaesthesia for SAMU, the Paris emergency medical service at the Necker University Hospital, specializing in the management of mass toxic incidents. He has been a board member of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine and has consulted for the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The author of numerous scientific publications, Dr. Baker is currently researching the management of pulmonary injury following toxic agent inhalation as well as the provision of early ventilatory support following toxic respiratory failure.