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    Kathryn Walker, PharmD, BCPS, CPE

    Kathryn Walker, PharmD, BCPS, CPE

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    Associate Professor of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research

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    School of Pharmacy

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    Pain and Palliative Care

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    Phone: 410-706-5820

    Email: kwalker@rx.umaryland.edu

    Dr. Walker is an associate professor at the School of Pharmacy and assistant vice president for palliative care at MedStar Health, where she creates palliative care strategy, demonstrates its value within the health system, and leads and collaborates on interdisciplinary research focused on health services related to telehealth and appropriate medication use. She teaches in both the School’s PharmD program and its MS in Palliative Care program. She also serves as site director for the pain/palliative care residency program that is shared between the University of Maryland and MedStar Health. At MedStar, she serves as the clinical co-leader for the health system and oversees inpatient palliative care consultation teams at nine hospitals as well as the community-based Palliative Telehealth Connecting to Home (PATCH) program, which she started in 2015. Dr. Walker completed one of the only specialty residencies at the time in palliative care at University of Maryland after completing her Doctor of Pharmacy degree. She is the past president of the Maryland Pain Initiative (MPI) and served on the Board of Directors for MPI and the Maryland Society of Health System Pharmacists.

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    Tagged: The Future of Health Care Caring for the Human Condition Research and Innovation


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