Alva "Buzz" Baker Receives Alumni Professional Achievement Award from McDaniel College

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Alva "Buzz" Baker

WESTMINSTER, MD (11/04/2011)(readMedia)-- Dr. Alva "Buzz" Baker of Sykesville, Md., receives the alumni professional achievement award from McDaniel College. He is a 1966 alumnus of Western Maryland (now McDaniel) College.

Presented annually during McDaniel's Homecoming, the alumni professional achievement award is presented to a graduate who has gained distinction in his/her chosen field or profession and whose accomplishments reflect admirably on McDaniel College.

Buzz Baker graduated from Western Maryland (now McDaniel) College in 1966 and earned his M.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He retired in 2009 after a distinguished career as a family practice physician, a certified geriatrician, staff member of Carroll Hospital Center and medical director for EMA, which provides senior care at various locations in the Maryland region. In 1994, with the opening of EMA's Copper Ridge Institute, which focuses on providing care to the memory impaired and their families, Baker began working full-time in administrative institutional care.

He is currently director of McDaniel's Center for the Study of Aging and continues to teach in the college's Gerontology programs. Baker continues to work with hospice and teaches physicians how to become medical directors in long term care through the American Medical Directors Association.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 60 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 20 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.