Expertise with particular emphasis on

Preventative Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging

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Qualified as a Cardiologist in 1986

Completed Specialist Physicians Examination in 1983

passed at first sitting – achieved by only one in ten candidates

Graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery

(with Honours)

University of New South Wales – 1978

Ranked 7^th in a class of 250

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• Extent of coronary artery calcification in elderly healthy Adventist volunteers compared to a healthy age matched general population.

• Coronary artery calcium scores show excellent agreement between fast gated helical CT and EBCT in two large populations of similar age and coronary risk.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Suppl.A), Vol. 37(2): 428A

• Lp(a) is an independent predictor of coronary atherosclerotic burden.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Suppl.A), Vol. 37(2): 296A.

• A nomogram for the Australian population developed from coronary artery calcium scores using fast gated CT.

• Lp(a) is an independent predictor of coronary atherosclerotic burden in asymptomatic males and females.

• Potential impact of coronary calcium screening on targeting cholesterol lowering therapy in asymptomatic middle aged men.

 Appeared on American television with Dr Robert Atkins and Dr Dean Ornish discussing diet and lifestyle.

 

1999 Established Sydney Heart Image in conjunction with the Sydney Adventist Hospital. Sydney Heart Image was the first service in Australasia to offer gated coronary calcium scoring, the current best non-invasive method to detect early heart disease.

1999-present Director of Sydney Heart Image.

1995-present Professional Speaker. Dr Walker lectures extensively throughout the world to many business and medical groups on lifestyle, health and stress management issues.

He delivers keynote addresses, seminars and workshops on various topics including:

• The Five Point Way to a Health Life
• Diet, Antioxidants and Health
• The Five Point Way to a Stress Free Life
• How to Discover Perfect Sleep
• Advanced Brain Power
• Building Strategic Partnerships.

Dr Walker has published three best-selling books on preventative health:

• “If I Eat Another Carrot I’ll Go Crazy!”, Kingsclear Books (1996)
• “What’s Cookin’ Doc”, Kingsclear Books (1998)
• “Highway to Health”, GoKo Management, Kingsclear Books (2000)

and is in the process of completing two further books on related topics. He has also commenced writing a novel.

Dr Walker also has a series of video and audio productions on preventative health.

He has performed 22,000 echocardiograms, 11,000 stress echocardiograms and 2,500 trans-thoracic echocardiograms.

He has the largest experience in the world in non EBCT calcium scoring of the coronary arteries using helical CT. Dr Walker has performed 11,000 studies.

Appointed to the Sydney Adventist Hospital to provide a comprehensive service in Echocardiology.

As the largest Cardiology department in New South Wales in the State’s largest private hospital, this hospital employs 20 cardiologists and conducts 15 bypass procedures per week.

1993-1994 Established the Baringa Cardiology Centre in Coffs Harbour, on the coast of New South Wales, half-way between Sydney and Brisbane.

Performed the first multiplane trans-oesophageal echocardiogram in Australia.

Established a state-of-the-art service in stress echocardiography

Enrolled over 200 patients in the LIPID trial, a trial of cholesterol reduction of patients with acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina, with cholesterol abnormalities – making the Centre the largest in New South Wales.

University of Bonn, Germany

The Thorax Centre, Rotterdam, Holland.

1991 Commenced training in trans-thoracic echocardiography

Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane

1987-1991 Consultant Cardiologist (private practice)

Coffs Harbour, New South Wales

Principal investigator for the Coffs Harbour region for two thrombolytic therapy trials.

Prince Henry, Prince of Wales Hospitals, Sydney

Played a key role in the establishment of the first Doppler service in Australia.

Developed skills in echocardiography and Doppler echocardiography.

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 Delivered a seminar on all aspects of echocardiography at the Jerudong Park Medical Centre in Brunei – September 1995

● Delivered a seminar on echocardiography and trained local cardiologists in trans-thoracic echocardiography in Indonesia – July 1995

● Member of the teaching faculty at the 4^th Wellington Echo-Doppler Conference in Wellington, New Zealand – conducting a seminar on Stress Echocardiography and demonstrating multiplane trans-thoracic echocardiography – 1994

● Conducted a two-week lecture tour through six cities in China – 1993

● Lectures to life insurance companies on executive health and executive stress

● Lectures on Preventative Cardiology to a wide range of groups in the community interested in health, diet and exercise.

● Lectures regularly throughout the world to medical, business and community groups on preventative health and other important lifestyle issues

● Has three regular radio programs in Australia – 2CH in Sydney, 3AK in Melbourne and 6PR in Perth

● Appears frequently in the Australian media discussing health issues.