Dr. Richard Walker

Biography

Clinical Academic Head Richard Walker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, and is affiliated with Alberta Health Services. He graduated with a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Saskatchewan in 1992 and completed his residency training in Family Medicine there in 1994. Later, he pursued residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine, followed by a Musculoskeletal Imaging Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Walker's primary research interests include multimodal imaging of sports-related injuries and joint trauma, imaging appropriateness, quality improvement, and opportunistic screening. He is involved in numerous collaborative research projects with colleagues from the Department of Orthopaedics and members of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, as well as Image Scientists at the University of Calgary. Additionally, he has served as a consultant radiologist for the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships and volunteered as a musculoskeletal radiologist at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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