Dr. Walker is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Cardiovascular Interventionists, the International College of Angiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Council on Clinical Cardiology. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at LSU and Tulane Medical Schools. He is Clinical Editor of Vascular Disease Management and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Endovascular Therapy, Endovascular Today, Global Vascular Digest as well as many other vascular-based journals. Dr. Walker is on the Board of Directors of the Outpatient Endovascular and Interventional Society (OEIS). He has served as an associate director of multiple conferences throughout the US and the world. He is on the Scientific Board of Directors for many of the world’s largest peripheral interventional device companies.
Dr. Walker founded and is the chairman of New Cardiovascular Horizons. He established the conference to educate and train medical professionals on the latest techniques to treat coronary and peripheral vascular disease. From the beginning, this conference included multiple medical disciplines needed to ideally diagnose and treat PVD. It was the first conference to host a Critical Limb Ischemia Summit to address the challenges and improve therapy of CLI. In an effort to educate others on PVD, CLI and the relationship with cardiovascular diseases in general, Dr. Walker has created 18 regional Saturday conferences throughout the United States. These provide local updates on improvements in cardiovascular care as well as to stress the importance of peripheral, arterial, and venous disease diagnosis and treatment to primary care providers, interventionists, nurse practitioners, cath lab directors, and other allied health professionals.
