Healthcare Professionals

Committed to helping you meet the evolving challenges and opportunities in patient care.

Healthcare Professionals
  • Primary Care

    Supporting every aspect of your clinical practice, including physical exam, diagnostic cardiology, vitals monitoring and vision screening

  • Hospital Care

    Advancing products and technologies designed to speed patient recovery and streamline clinical workflows

  • Surgical Care

    Delivering innovations that enable reduced operating times, faster patient recovery and improved outcomes

  • Kidney Care

    Pioneering care in hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) and digital health to support better outcomes for your patients

  • Nutritional Care

    Personalizing nutritional care designed to improve patients’ health in the hospital, the ICU and at home

  • Respiratory Care

    Helping your patients with respiratory therapies designed to simplify delivery and improve mobility

  • Our Products & Services

    Our portfolio of acute, nutritional, renal, hospital and surgical care products helps advance healthcare around the world.

Perspectives

For nearly a century, we have worked at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives.

Perspectives

Our Story

Our 90-year heritage gives us distinct perspective on the needs of patients and caregivers. We lead today by putting those insights to work to deliver new, better healthcare solutions and access to care in the communities where we live and work.

Our Story
  • Our Leadership

    Our forward-looking leadership team is a driving force in ensuring we meet the needs of all our stakeholders – every day and everywhere.

  • Our Governance

    We are proud of our strong commitment to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance.

  • Fueling Collaborative Innovation

    Nurturing a culture of innovation is critical to delivering on our mission to save and sustain lives. We partner with the healthcare community to continually find more efficient, smarter ways to help solve the world's most pressing healthcare challenges.

  • Corporate Responsibility

    We strive to create lasting value by empowering our patients, protecting our planet and championing our people and communities.

  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

    We are committed to attracting, motivating and retaining an inclusive and diverse workforce.

  • Our History

    For nearly a century, we’ve been focused on saving and sustaining lives and elevating patient care.

Patients

Helping you reach a healthy life, full of possibility.

Patients
  • General Healthcare

    Whether you are receiving care in the hospital, at your doctor’s office or at home, we are here to support every step of your journey.

  • Nutritional Care

    When medical conditions prevent you from adequately feeding yourself, we provide life-saving clinical nutrition options to help you regain your nutritional status.

  • Kidney Care

    Kidney disease is an ongoing journey for you and your family. While every journey is unique, Baxter is committed to supporting access to care options to meet your medical and lifestyle needs.

  • Respiratory Care

    We are committed to helping you with innovative products that deliver effective, proven respiratory therapy in the hospital and at home.

Tobi Karchmer, M.D., M.S.

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical & Scientific Officer

Tobi Karchmer, M.D., M.S.

Tobi Karchmer, M.D., M.S., is senior vice president and chief medical and scientific officer.

Prior to her appointment to chief medical officer in 2021, Karchmer served as vice president, Worldwide Medical, which consists of Baxter's Global and Regional Medical Affairs teams, Clinical Research team and Strategy and Delivery team.

Karchmer joined Baxter in 2019 from Becton Dickinson (BD), where she most recently served as vice president, Global Medical Safety and, prior to that, senior vice president of Global Medical Affairs and Clinical Development.  

Prior to joining industry, Karchmer was an assistant professor of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and was the director of Hospital Epidemiology for Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

She serves as executive sponsor of Baxter EnAbles, a business resource group of Baxter employees who support inclusion, awareness and respect for those living with disabilities. Karchmer also serves as a member of Baxter's Global Inclusion Council.

She received a bachelor's degree in biology from Princeton University, a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a master's degree from the University of Virginia.