Dr. Walker recently joined Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine as the Vice Dean of Health Equity and Inclusion. Prior to her new role at Geisinger, she was the Associate Chief Diversity and Health Equity Officer for Nationwide Children’s Hospital and simultaneously held joint appointments as Associate Division Chief of Health Equity and Inclusion for the Division of Neonatology and Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. As a practicing neonatologist, Dr. Walker champions the elimination of health inequities for pregnant people and their infants. She also advocates for gender equity and speaks extensively throughout the country on intersectionality, microaggressions and anti-racist praxis in science, engineering and medical education.

A physician leader within organized medicine, Dr. Walker is an Executive Committee member for the AAP’s Section on Minority Health Equity and Inclusion, in addition to her position as Program Chair for the Section. She is a newly elected Administrative Board Member for the AAMC’s Council on Faculty and Academic Societies after transitioning out of her role as the Central Region Representative for the AAMC’s Group on Diversity and Inclusion. Previously, she served as president for the Association of Black Women Physicians, a nonprofit organization dedicated to diversifying the physician workforce, advocating for under-resourced communities and promoting health equity.

Dr. Walker completed her undergraduate studies at Florida A&M University. She received her medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine then finished her Pediatrics residency at UT Memphis and her Neonatology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She also holds a MPH in Health Policy from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.