Dr. Richard Walker

Associate Professor

Department of Radiology

Doctor of Medicine

University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1992 (MD)

Resident, Family Medicine

University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1994 (CCFP)

Resident, Diagnostic Radiology

Boston University School of Medicine, USA, 2000 (FRCPC, ABR)

Fellow, Musculoskeletal Imaging

Harvard University/Tufts University, USA, 2001

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Biography

Clinical and Academic Head 

Dr. Richard Walker is an Associate Professor and Clinical and Academic Head, Department of Radiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services. After graduating from Medicine and completing residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, he practiced primary care in Northern Saskatchewan for 2 years. He then travelled to Boston, MA for residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine and a Musculoskeletal Imaging Fellowship at the New England Baptist Bone and Joint Institute and Harvard Medical School. His primary research interests include multimodal imaging of sports-related injuries and joint trauma, as well as imaging appropriateness, quality improvement and opportunistic screening. He is involved in multiple collaborative research projects with colleagues from the Department of Orthopaedics, members of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health and Image Scientists at the University of Calgary. He was a consultant radiologist for the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships held in Alberta in 2012 and a volunteer MSK radiologist for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.