When:
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where:
Online
Webcast Link
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: None
Contact:
Araceli Estrada
(312) 503-0691
Group: Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET)
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity
Date: Wednesday, July 22nd
Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Garth Walker on the impact COVID has had in Black communities and his experiences as a Black doctor.
Dr. Walker is an Emergency Medicine specialist, researcher, and founder in Chicago with academic, non-profit, and private sector experience in both start-ups and impact investing. Dr. Walker received his bachelors in economics and chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, medical degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago, master of public health at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, and emergency medicine training at the University of Chicago Pritzker school of medicine.
Dr. Walker is an attending physician at the Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs Hospital where he delivers emergency care to veterans and patients in the Chicagoland area. Dr. Walker also is an health equity fellow with the Northwestern Emergency Department and Northwestern Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics investigating social determinants of health in firearm injury recidivism and healthcare disparities related to opioid mortalities.
Dr. Walker’s civic interests are tied to firearm violence reduction, mentorship for diversity in medicine, and equitable education. Dr. Walker sits on the advisory board and research counsel for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM), a national non-partisan foundation aimed to support research for effective firearm policy, mentor for LINK unlimited for public school student within the Chicagoland area and advisory board with Turning the Page, a national literacy and parental advocacy non-profit aimed to improve literacy, and educational outcomes in Chicago’s west side and DC underserved public schools.