Philip Luke Baese, MD, FAPA began his academic career at the University of Utah in 2002, after completing a combined residency training program here. As a board certified Adult Psychiatrist and Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist, he is an Associate Professor and serves as the Division Chief of the Child Psychiatry Division in the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Baese completed medical school training in 1997 at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and completed a 5 year combined residency training program - Triple Board - in 2002. Upon completing this program, he became board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in pediatric medicine, adult psychiatric medicine, and child/adolescent psychiatric medicine. He joined the University of Utah faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.
Since medical school, Dr. Baese has had an interest in the humanistic side of medicine and science. He has pursued studies that focus on medical ethics, philosophy, and other humanities, specifically literature and film as they relate to medicine and particularly mental illness. After many years of participating in the Medical Ethics Course at the School of Medicine, he joined the Division of Biomedical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah as a Division Associate. He participates in a variety of activities and topics related to ethics, including Medical Decision Making Capacity, Conflicts of Interest, Involuntary Treatment for Psychiatry Illness, and Professionalism. He also collaborates with other Division Members to teach internal medicine residents and medical students about patient care issues, such as boundaries, humor, stigma, and disability.
Dr. Baese directed a monthly lecture series for Child Psychiatry Fellows and Triple Board residents from 2002 - 2006 entitled Community Resources, Ethics, and Legal Issues. He has also participated in teaching 3rd Year Medical Students in a longitudinal course entitled Topics in Medicine from 2003 - 2010 covering Utah Mental Health Committment laws, Competency, and Error in Medicine. In 2010, he became the Psychiatry Clerkship Director and oversees the organizational and learning aspect of a mandatory 6 week rotation for all medical students. He has enjoyed this aspect of his career and has found a passion for teaching psychiatry to young physicians in training. As well, he supervises students rotating through his out-patient practice, specializing in Children and Adolescents as well as Developmental Delay. In an era of complex problems related to access and cost, he strives to keep young doctors-in-training excited and optimistic about their careers. He hopes to keep ethics and humanities as critical domains of learning for all doctors.
Philip Baese has participated in a range of academic and community service areas. He served as a committee member on Primary Children's Hospital ethics committee from 2000 - 2012. He served as a liaison committee member from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to the Committee on Bioethics of the American Academy of Pediatrics from 2006 - 2010. He was the chair of the University Neuropsychiatric Institute Ethics Committee from 2003 - 2008 and then served as a member from 2009-2013. He was the chair of the Utah Psychiatric Association ethics committee from 2008 - 2014 and a member of the Utah Medical Association Ethics Committee from 2010 - 2013.
Philip L. Baese, MD, FAPA maintains board certification in two specialties (Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) and is a member of several national professional organizations - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, Utah Medical Association, Utah Psychiatric Association, and Association of Medical Student Educators in Psychiatry. He is committed to teaching young physicians-in-training and maintaining rigorous educational standards in the fields of psychiatry, medical ethics, and medical humanities.
From 2002 - 2004, he worked as an in-patient hospitalist at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric institute (UNI). His primary clinical work was taking care of acutely ill children, adolescents, and adults who required psychiatric hospitalization. In addition, he worked in the partial hospital program at UNI's Teenscope and Kid Star, which serves as a hosptial step-down unit and a sub-acute day-treatment program for teenagers and younger children. Because of his early career interest in chemical dependency, he also worked as the Medical Director for an intensive out-patient substance abuse program at UNI called SOS (Staying Off Substances) from 2003 - 2005. These first 3 years provided Dr. Baese with a broad clinical exposure to a wide range of psychiatric illnesses ranging from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorder, anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorder and substance abuse problems to other, less common issues, such as attachment disorders, Tourette syndrome, Asperger's syndrome, and gender identity problems. As well, he gained valuable experience treating these problems across a variety of treatment settings. This experience allowed Dr. Baese to sharpen his clinical decision making and work with a multidisciplinary team, which included psychologists, social workers, nurses, discharge planners, and insurance reviewers.
In 2005, he moved into the out-patient clinical setting to the Neurobehavior/HOME program. This clinic was initially designed to provide psychiatric care to complex, developmentally delayed individuals - often with identifiable and rare genetic syndromes. This opportunity allowed him to strengthen his clinical skills in the area of developmental disability and establish long-term, out-patient relationships with his patients and their families. He currently takes care of individuals across their entire lifespan (young children, school age children, adolescents, young adults, middle age adults, and seniors). Within the context of this clinic, he has been able to continue to work with a multispecialty team - case managers, nurses, behavior specialists, and primary care practitioners and gain exposure to a very unique set of individuals. He continues to see individuals with autism, pervasive developmental disorders, cognitive delays, traumatic brain injury and a broad range of known genetic syndromes, including Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, FG Syndrome, Smith Magenis Syndrome, Neurofibromatosis, Tuberous Sclerosis, Phenylkenonuria, Turner Syndrome, Klinnefelter Syndrome, and Prader Willi Syndrome. Dr. Baese has developed an expertise in Prader Willi Syndrome and is the psychiatrist for the Utah Prader Willi Syndrome Association. He participates in a state funded multispecialty clinic every quarter for children with PWS. Philip Luke Baese, MD, FAPA maintains a passion for excellent patient care combined with evidence based medical decision making. He strives to contribute to the best quality outcomes and lives for the patients he sees at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute.