Kathryn Walker, PharmD, BCPS, CPE Senior Clinical Director of Palliative Care MedStar Health Baltimore, Maryland Bio: Kathryn Anne Walker, PharmD, BCPS, CPE is the Senior Clinical and Scientific Director for Palliative Care for MedStar Health System.
She is charged with developing clinical outcomes, research and education along with developing the palliative clinical services at the ten hospitals and in the outpatient community of MedStar Health. She also serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy where she contributes to both didactic and experiential pharmacy education. 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. Dr. Walker has been an invited speaker both nationally and internationally at professional conferences and disseminated her work through posters, paper sessions and peer-reviewed journal articles. She has served as a research mentor for over 10 years to medical students from University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and Medicine and Georgetown University. After her Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Duquesne University Dr. Walker completed the only specialty residency at the time in palliative care at University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. She is also a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and certified pain educator. Dr. Walker’s passion for safe and appropriate medication use includes a major focus on relief of suffering and drives her efforts in clinical practice, research and education.
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