Patricia F. Walker
Associate Professor
infectious Disease and international Medicine
HealthPartners Research Foundation
United States of America
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 Interest
Her areas of expertise include refugee and immigrant health care, travel and tropical medicine, globally mobile populations, health disparities and culturally competent health care.
Publications
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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.
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When the market fails, the poor pay. Patnaik MM, Stauffer WM, Campagna A, Stauffer CI, Walker PF. Minnesota medicine. 2007; 90(3):38-40.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Neglected tropical disease: challenges, progress, and hope. Campagna AM, Patnaik MM, Walker PF. Minnesota medicine. 2008; 91(7):42-4.
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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.
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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.
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Migrants, detainees, and misconceptions. Stauffer WM, Kluznik J, Dicker S, Boulware DR, Walker PF. Lancet (London, England). 2009; 373(9681):2112.
