Professor Robert Baker, founder and director emeritus of the Bioethics Program, has been honored with the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ (ASBH) Lifetime Achievement Award. After being raised in a Bronx housing project by a widowed mother, Baker earned a BA in social science from City College of New York, a PhD in philosophy from the University of Minnesota, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Albany Medical College. He co-founded an online/onsite bioethics masters’ program, founded ASBH’s affinity group on the history of medical ethics, and served on ASBH committees that developed its code of ethics. A four-time National Endowment for the Humanities awardee and a Hastings Center Fellow, Baker has authored or coauthored over 150 articles and a dozen books including, the American Medical Ethics Revolution, The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics, Before Bioethics, and Making Modern Medical Ethics. Congratulations Professor Baker.