Faculty

Medical Director
University of Washington Medical Center

Cheryl M Scott/Group Health Cooperative Professor
University of Washington,
Health Services


Department of Health Services Program Affiliations:
  -  Master of Health Administration Program

Dr. Walker's areas of interest include: organizational behavior, physician leadership development, emotional intelligence and personality type, organizational governance, change management, leadership theory, conflict management and negotiation, consultation-liaison psychiatry in primary care settings, somatization and chronic pain, medical and psychological effects of childhood maltreatment, rural mental health consultation and telemedicine.

Box:  356330
(voice)  206-598-6600
edwalker@u.washington.edu

Clinical systems management, physician leadership training

• HSMGMT 510   (Executive MHA Program)
  Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
• HSMGMT 550   (Certificate in Medical Management)
  Medical Practice Quality Measurement and Management
• HSMGMT 567   (Executive MHA Program)
  Clinical Systems Management
• HSMGMT 567
  Clinical Systems Management
• HSMGMT 590
  Professional Development Assessment
• HSMGMT 590   (Executive MHA Program)
  Professional Development Assessment
• HSMGMT 592   (Certificate in Medical Management)
  Leadership and Change Management

Integration of mental health into primary and specialty care medical settings National Institute of Mental Health
PI:   Grembowski           Dates:    08/1998 - 06/2010
This program is designed to train physicians for academic research careers aimed at improving recognition and management of mental health problems encountered in primary medical care settings.

Walker EA, Gelfand A, Katon W, Koss M, Von Korff M, Bernstein D, Russo J: Adult health status of women HMO members with histories of childhood abuse and neglect. Am J Med 1999;107:332-9.

Walker EA, Unützer J, Rutter C, Gelfand A, Saunders K, Von Korff M, Koss M, Katon W: Costs of health care utilization by women HMO members with a history of childhood abuse and neglect. Arch Gen Psych 1999; 59:609-613.

Walker EA, Wolf, FM, Thielke S, Oberg L., Brock DM., Schaad DC: Formative evaluation of Web problem-based learning: Virtual primary care clinics in Human Behavior/Developmental Medicine. J Am Med Informatics Assoc 1999; 6(AMIA Fall Symposium Supplement).

Walker EA, Katon W, Russo J, Von Korff M, Lin E, Simon G, Bush T, Ludman E, Unützer J: Predictors of outcome in a primary care depression trial. J Gen Intern Med 2000;15:859-67.

Walker EA, Newman E, Dobie DJ, Ciechanowski P, Katon W. Validation of the PTSD checklist in an HMO sample of women. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2002 Nov-Dec;24(6):375-80.