35 Facts About Neal Baer

Neal Baer was born on 1955 and is an American pediatrician and television writer and producer.

Neal Baer's father, Sylvan, was a surgeon and his mother was very active politically.

Neal Baer studied for a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Sociology and focused on family policy.

Neal Baer graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his internship in Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Neal Baer received the Jerry L Pettis Memorial Scholarship from the American Medical Association as the most outstanding medical student who has contributed to promoting a better understanding of medicine in the media.

Neal Baer balanced completing his medical internship with working in television, again practicing medicine in breaks in filming including working as a resident at Children's Hospital in December 1997 and March, April, and May 1998.

Neal Baer holds a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Neal Baer has written extensively on adolescent health issues for Scholastic Magazine, covering such topics as teen pregnancy, AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse, and nutrition.

Neal Baer taught elementary school in Colorado and worked as a research associate at USC Medical School, where he focused on drug and alcohol abuse prevention.

Neal Baer serves on the boards of many organizations related to health care, including the Venice Family Clinic, RAND Health, Children Now, the Huckleberry Fund of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

Neal Baer is a member of the Board of Associates at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

Neal Baer is currently engaged in work to improve the visibility of social determinants of health in media.

Neal Baer began his work in television by writing and directing an ABC Afterschool Special entitled "Private Affairs".

Neal Baer was hired by writer and producer John Wells to write for drama series China Beach.

The series focused on nurses in Vietnam and Neal Baer was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay in Episodic Drama his work on the episode "Warriors".

Neal Baer was hired by John Wells again as a staff writer for the first season of ER.

Neal Baer contributed directly to four episodes and his medical experience informed other storylines.

Neal Baer became a story editor for the second season, taking responsibility for compiling scripts and developing the medical storylines.

Neal Baer remained a regular writer and contributed scripts for the episodes "Hell and High Water" and "The Match".

Neal Baer was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series at the 1996 awards for his work on "Hell and High Water".

Neal Baer became a co-producer on the third season of ER and wrote a further four episodes.

Neal Baer was nominated a second Writers Guild of America award for Best Screenplay in Episodic Drama for the same episode in at the 1998 ceremony.

Neal Baer was promoted to producer for the fourth season and wrote two more episodes.

Neal Baer was promoted again to supervising producer for the fifth season.

Neal Baer was responsible for writing a two more episodes, continuing to develop medical storylines for all episodes, and supervising other aspects of production including casting, design, directing, and editing.

Neal Baer was responsible for answering mail relating to the medical aspects of the series and for developing projects that drew on ER to promote public health including a series of news segments covering issues related to the series.

The fifth season was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the 1999 awards and Neal Baer shared the nomination for a third time.

Neal Baer became a co-executive producer for the sixth season of ER and wrote a further three episodes.

The sixth season was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2000 awards and Neal Baer shared the nomination for a fourth time.

Neal Baer was promoted to executive producer for the seventh season of ER and wrote one more episode.

Neal Baer left ER following the seventh season, having been a producer for five seasons and with 18 episodes as a writer.

Neal Baer has written the pilot episode of two unproduced television series; The Edge for CBS and Outreach for the WB Network.

Neal Baer has written an unproduced film for Twentieth Century Fox entitled The Doctor Corps.

Neal Baer is a trustee of the Writers Guild of America Health and Pension Fund.

In 2018, it was announced that Neal Baer was hired as the showrunner for the third season of the political thriller drama series Designated Survivor.