Sam Baker
Sam Baker is KERA's senior editor and local host for Morning Edition. The native of Beaumont, Texas, also edits and produces radio commentaries and Vital Signs, a series that's part of the station's Breakthroughs initiative. He also was the longtime host of KERA 13’s Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On the Record. He also won an Emmy in 2008 for KERA’s Sharing the Power: A Voter’s Voice Special, and has earned honors from the Associated Press and the Public Radio News Directors Inc.
Sam worked in commercial television at NBC and CBS affiliates for six years before moving to public broadcasting. He was news director and Morning Edition host at KWGS-FM in Tulsa, Okla., for three years and moved to KERA in 1991. He has served on the board of Public Radio News Directors Inc. and is a member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators.
As a volunteer, Sam produces a weekly series, Jazz in Words and Music, for Reading and Radio Resources, an agency serving the visually impaired. He also serves on the board of Southwest Transplant Alliance, a private non-profit organization that provides organs and tissues for transplantation.
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Data from U.S. studies over 40 years found some heart attack victims experienced cognitive decline at a more accelerated rate as they aged than patients without underlying heart disease.
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A Texas breast surgeon agrees with screening earlier, but she favors annual mammograms instead of exams every two years.
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Erythritol is used as a sugar substitute in a variety of foods. Dr. Brandie Williams, a cardiologist with Texas Health Stephenville, said consuming large amounts may lead to serious problems.
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The CDC says one in four older adults falls each year. KERA’s Sam Baker talks about why with Dr. Deborah Freeland, an assistant professor of geriatric medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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Dr. Quanita Crable, an OB-GYN with Texas Health Dallas, explains to KERA's Sam Baker why she believes laparoscopic myomectomy is the best option to remove the fibroids.
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Dr. Diana Kerwin, a geriatrics medicine physician with Texas Health Dallas, said the news about the actor was not surprising after Willis's 2022 diagnosis of aphasia.
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The warning concerns infections in Texas and 11 other states from a drug-resistant strain of bacteria.
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While with the Brooklyn Nets, the all-star point guard posted a link to an anti-Semitic film on social media. Irving apologized, but David Trink wasn't satisfied. He spoke with KERA's Sam Baker about the piece he contributed to the Mavs Moneyball sports blog, “What it now means to be a Jewish Mavericks fan, courtesy of Kyrie Irving.”
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KERA’s Sam Baker gets some answers in today’s Vital Signs from Dr. Salman Bhai, a neurologist and faculty member at the Institute of Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
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Doctors use surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation to treat a malignant brain cancer called glioblastoma. But it often returns. Dr. Syed Faaiz Enam, a Resident in Adult Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, explains to KERA's Sam Baker why he thinks cooling brain tumor cells could be effective.