About John Ingram Walker, MD
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Dr. Walker had a joint medical and psychiatric appointment at Duke University Medical Center where he was Director of the Combined Medical Services Unit and Director of Continuing Medical Education in Psychiatry. When he returned to his home state of Texas, Dr. Walker was appointed Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Currently, he is the Associate Professor of Psychiatry at VCOM.
COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE
Dr. Walker speaks nationally on sales and marketing strategies, industrial change, time management, and stress management. He has written fourteen books. His book Leverage Your Time: Balance Your Life has become a corporate best seller. His blog brings encouragement, optimism, and hope.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dr. Walker owned and operated an 18-staff psychiatric clinic in Central Texas. He was medical director for HCA Hill Country Hospital in San Antonio and, later, the 12-county St Joseph Regional Health Center, Bryan-College Station, Texas. He currently has a limited psychiatric practice in Blacksburg, Virginia.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Dr. Walker was a National Fellow in Research Training, NIMH and was Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke Medical Center.
PERSONALITY STYLE
On the DISC Dr. Walker scores an Inspirational Pattern (Dominant Director type with nearly equal Interacting Socializer characteristics). This indicates that he is motivated to be a master people mover.
“POP” WALKER is a life-long Methodist who yearns to put God first in his life. He and Vicki have been married for 53 years; they have two children, a daughter-in-law, son-in-law and four grandchildren. The family fails to spend enough time on their Navasota Ranch. His stallion, Flying Dust, gallops away from him at every approach so Pop is confined to wearing his spurs to the Lynn Grove Methodist Church. He is an expert sleep fisher; the fish never bite so he has long summer naps deep within the billowing Johnson Grass, underneath the shade of the towering branches of a water oak.
My Mission
To bring encouragement, optimism and hope to all I meet. Specifically I’d like to make you laugh a little, think some, appreciate more, and, perhaps, on rare occasions, shed a tear or two.
I want you to know that Life Works.