Dr Joshua Baker, General & Laparoscopic Surgeon & Endoscopist
FRACS MTrauma (Dist) PGDipAnat B.Med
Dr Joshua Baker General & Laparoscopic Surgeon & Endoscopist Ballarat Victoria
Joshua Baker is a dedicated general surgeon with a strong commitment to regional and rural surgery and operates on a wide range of general surgical cases. Known for his relaxed and approachable style, Josh provides a full range of general surgery services, including minimally invasive hernia repairs, gallbladder surgery, thyroid surgery, skin cancer and skin excisions, carpal tunnel release and soft tissue hand surgery, and gastrointestinal surgery. He is also accredited by the CCRTGE for gastroscopy and colonoscopy.
Dr. Baker practices at Ballarat Base Hospital, St John of God Ballarat, and Colac District Hospitals, ensuring access to care for both insured and uninsured patients.
Josh graduated from the University of Newcastle in 2010 and completed residency at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney. Josh trained in Surgery in major teaching hospitals in Sydney such as St Vincent’s Hospital, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Prince of Wales Hospital but his love for general surgery was sparked when he worked in Alice Springs and Darwin where he experienced a wide array of complex presentations in general surgery and emergency trauma surgery. Josh loved the variety and complexity of surgery so much that he lived and worked in the Northern Territory for 4 years before moving back to Sydney to complete his surgical training at Prince of Wales Hospital where he did terms in Colorectal, Upper GI, HPB, Surgical Oncology and Head and Neck Surgery.
Josh has also completed a Masters in Traumatology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Surgical Anatomy. He enjoys teaching and helps surgical registrars with fellowship examination preparation.
Josh has a passion for global and rural health and has worked in hospitals in Madagascar, Malaysian Borneo and doing outreach surgery to remote Indigenous communities such as Katherine and Nhulunbuy in East Arnhem land. He loves the outdoors, four-wheel driving, camping, travelling and tinkering with his cars and combined all these interests by completing the Mongol Rally, driving 50,000kms from London to Mongolia (and back again) in a 1000cc hatchback through over 20 countries in Europe and Central Asia.
Josh is joined in Ballarat by his wife Ashlyn Baker, a Rehabilitation Physician working at Queen Elizabeth Centre, 4-year-old identical twin sons Xavier and Zeke, and 2-year-old daughter Zara.
