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Patricia F. Walker

Associate Professor
infectious Disease and international Medicine
HealthPartners Research Foundation
United States of America

Professor Infectious Diseases
Biography

Patricia F. Walker is Associate Professor and Associate Program Director, Global Health Pathway, Division of infectious Disease and international Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota. she completed her MD, Mayo Medical School; Residency in Internal Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine; Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; Certificate in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; Certificate in Travel Health, International Society of Travel Medicine; Bush Foundation Medical Leadership Fellowship in Clinical Tropical Medicine, Thailand. Dr. Walker has been a clinician and medical educator focused on refugee and immigrant health care since 1979. She is internationally recognized for her work in defining the body of knowledge that encompasses refugee and immigrant health care. From 2002 to 2004, she chaired the State of Minnesota Immigrant Health Task Force, a group of 70 experts who developed best practices in care for refugees and immigrants in Minnesota that are being shared internationally. Dr. Walker has published multiple clinical articles, invited commentaries and book chapters on refugee and immigrant health and co-edited a 2007 medical textbook, Immigrant Medicine. She has received more than 16 grants totaling more than $1.5 million, focused primarily on defining best practices in culturally competent care and disseminating them in HealthPartners and nationally. She has served on HealthPartners Equitable Care Sponsor and Oversight Groups since their inception and helped lead the subgroup that defined HealthPartners demographic data collection, which is critical to reducing health disparities. She also led the design for the current Equitable Care Fellows Program at HealthPartners. She is currently president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Her work was profiled in the Lancet in February 2017. Dr. Walker speaks Thai and Cambodian.

Research Intrest

Her areas of expertise include refugee and immigrant health care, travel and tropical medicine, globally mobile populations, health disparities and culturally competent health care.

List of Publications
Immigrant medicine Walker PF, Barnett ED. Walker PF, Barnett ED, editors. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2007. An introduction to the field of refugee and immigrant healthcare; p.1-9.
When the market fails, the poor pay. Patnaik MM, Stauffer WM, Campagna A, Stauffer CI, Walker PF. Minnesota medicine. 2007; 90(3):38-40.
Maltreatment of Strongyloides infection: case series and worldwide physicians-in-training survey. Boulware DR, Stauffer WM, Hendel-Paterson BR, Rocha JL, Seet RC, Summer AP, Nield LS, Supparatpinyo K, Chaiwarith R, Walker PF. The American journal of medicine. 2007; 120(6):545.e1-8. NIHMSID: NIHMS24074
Hypereosinophilic syndrome and mepolizumab. Boulware DR, Stauffer WM 3rd, Walker PF. The New England journal of medicine. 2008; 358(26):2839; author reply 2839-40. NIHMSID: NIHMS60647
Hypereosinophilic syndrome and mepolizumab. Boulware DR, Stauffer WM 3rd, Walker PF. The New England journal of medicine. 2008; 358(26):2839; author reply 2839-40. NIHMSID: NIHMS60647
Seasonality, annual trends, and characteristics of dengue among ill returned travelers, 1997-2006. Schwartz E, Weld LH, Wilder-Smith A, von Sonnenburg F, Keystone JS, Kain KC, Torresi J, Freedman DO. Emerging infectious diseases. 2008; 14(7):1081-8.
Neglected tropical disease: challenges, progress, and hope. Campagna AM, Patnaik MM, Walker PF. Minnesota medicine. 2008; 91(7):42-4.
Role of immigrants and migrants in emerging infectious diseases. Barnett ED, Walker PF. The Medical clinics of North America. 2008; 92(6):1447-58, xi-xii.
Tobacco-use prevalence in special populations taking advantage of electronic medical records. Solberg LI, Flottemesch TJ, Foldes SS, Molitor BA, Walker PF, Crain AL. American journal of preventive medicine. 2008; 35(6 Suppl):S501-7.
Migrants, detainees, and misconceptions. Stauffer WM, Kluznik J, Dicker S, Boulware DR, Walker PF. Lancet (London, England). 2009; 373(9681):2112.
CDC health information for international travel (Yellow Book) Walker PF, Stauffer WM, Barnett ED. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), editor. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); 2010. Chapter 9, After arrival in the United States: recommendations for screening and immunizations of new immigrants and refugees
Disparities in tobacco cessation medication orders and fills among special populations. Solberg LI, Parker ED, Foldes SS, Walker PF. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2010; 12(2):144-51.
A surveillance source of tobacco use differences among immigrant populations. Parker ED, Solberg LI, Foldes SS, Walker PF. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2010; 12(3):309-14
Vitamin B12 deficiency in resettled Bhutanese refugees--United States, 2008-2011 Walker PF, Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Cf. MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. 2011 March 25; 60(11):343-6.
Impact of global health residency training on medical knowledge of immigrant health. Bjorklund AB, Cook BA, Hendel-Paterson BR, Walker PF, Stauffer WM, Boulware DR. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 2011; 85(3):405-8.
Characteristics and spectrum of disease among ill returned travelers from pre- and post-earthquake Haiti: The GeoSentinel experience. Esposito DH, Han PV, Kozarsky PE, Walker PF, Gkrania-Klotsas E, Barnett ED, Libman M, McCarthy AE, Field V, Connor BA, Schwartz E, MacDonald S, Sotir MJ. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 2012; 86(1):23-8.
Global TravEpiNet: a national consortium of clinics providing care to international travelers--analysis of demographic characteristics, travel destinations, and pretravel healthcare of high-risk US international travelers, 2009-2011. LaRocque RC, Rao SR, Lee J, Ansdell V, Yates JA, Schwartz BS, Knouse M, Cahill J, Hagmann S, Vinetz J, Connor BA, Goad JA, Oladele A, Alvarez S, Stauffer W, Walker P, Kozarsky P, Franco-Paredes C, Dismukes R, Rosen J, Hynes NA, Jacquerioz F, McLellan S, Hale D, Sofarelli T, Schoenfeld D, Marano N, Brunette G, Jentes ES, Yanni E, Sotir MJ, Ryan ET. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2012; 54(4):455-62.
Effect of country of origin, age, and body mass index on prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in a US immigrant and refugee population. Campagna AM, Settgast AM, Walker PF, DeFor TA, Campagna EJ, Plotnikoff GA. Mayo Clinic proceedings. 2013; 88(1):31-7
Lost in translation. Krohn K, Walker P. Minnesota medicine. 2013; 96(4):24-5.
Spectrum of illness in international migrants seen at GeoSentinel clinics in 1997-2009, part 1: US-bound migrants evaluated by comprehensive protocol-based health assessment. Barnett ED, Weld LH, McCarthy AE, So H, Walker PF, Stauffer W, Cetron M. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2013; 56(7):913-24.
Spectrum of illness in international migrants seen at GeoSentinel clinics in 1997-2009, part 2: migrants resettled internationally and evaluated for specific health concerns. McCarthy AE, Weld LH, Barnett ED, So H, Coyle C, Greenaway C, Stauffer W, Leder K, Lopez-Velez R, Gautret P, Castelli F, Jenks N, Walker PF, Loutan L, Cetron M. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2013; 56(7):925-33.
Pre-travel consultation and hepatitis B: a double opportunity for preventing infection in at-risk patients and life-threatening complications in HBV carriers. Walker PF. Journal of travel medicine. 2013; 20(3):143-5
Pre-exposure rabies vaccination among US international travelers: findings from the global TravEpiNet consortium. Dolan SB, Jentes ES, Sotir MJ, Han P, Blanton JD, Rao SR, LaRocque RC, Ryan ET, Abraham GM, Alvarez S, Ansdell V, Yates JA, Atkins EH, Cahill J, Birich HK, Vitek D, Connor BA, Dismukes R, Kozarsky P, Dosunmu R, Goad JA, Hagmann S, Hale D, Hynes NA, Jacquerioz F, McLellan S, Knouse M, Lee J, LaRocque RC, Ryan ET, Oladele A, Demeke H, Pasinski R, Wheeler AE, Rao SR, Rosen J, Schwartz BS, Stauffer W, Walker P, Vinetz J. Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.). 2014; 14(2):160-7.
Culturally competent cancer screening Walker PF. Minn Physician. 2014 August; 28(5):22.
Chikungunya: acute fever, rash and debilitating arthralgias in a returning traveler from Haiti. Anderson KB, Pureza V, Walker PF. Journal of travel medicine. 2014; 21(6):418-20.
Healthcare for adult immigrants and refugees Walker PF, Barnett ED, Stauffer WM. In: UpToDate [Internet]. Waltham, MA: UpToDate; 2015. Available from: www.uptodate.com.
Best practices in refugee health: leading with head and heart. Keynote speaker. Walker PF. North American Refugee Health Conference: Health Means the World to Us; 2015; Toronto, ON, Canada.
National Partnership for Maternal Safety: Consensus Bundle on Obstetric Hemorrhage. Main EK, Goffman D, Scavone BM, Low LK, Bingham D, Fontaine PL, Gorlin JB, Lagrew DC, Levy BS. Obstetrics and gynecology. 2015; 126(1):155-62.
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