Dr. Walker received his undergraduate education at Brigham Young University and Mississippi College. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1969. An internship in General Surgery at Latter-Day Saints Hospital in Salt Lake City, 1969-1970, was followed by residency training in General Surgery from 1970-1971 at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. He completed his neurosurgery residency training between 1971 and 1976 at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. He also completed a 12-month fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario.

He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. He is certified by The American Board of Neurological Surgery and the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery. Dr. Walker is the immediate Past-Chairman of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is also the immediate Past-Chairman of the Board of the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery and is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, the official Journal of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons and the Neurosurgical Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has previously served as Chairman of the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and President of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons.

Dr. Walker's Publications