Dr. Walker serves as the MedStar Health System Senior Clinical Director for Palliative Care, where she is charged with developing clinical outcomes, research, and education. She also acts as an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, contributing to both didactic and experiential pharmacy education.
Dr. Walker completed her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Duquesne University and specialty residency at the University of Maryland. She has served as principle investigator on several grants and co-investigator on an NIH/NINR R01 grant to validate a pain assessment tool for non-communicative patients. She continues to serve as a research mentor to medical students from University of Maryland School of Medicine and Georgetown University.