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MARRTC Researcher Named ACP-ASIM President-elect
Columbia, Mo. (March 14, 2001) - Sara Walker, M.D., MACP (Manipulation Association of Chartered Physiotherapists), a Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (MARRTC) researcher, has been elected President-elect of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
As a researcher with MARRTC, Walker is co-investigator on a project looking at depression and rheumatoid arthritis and a project to develop a model curriculum for arthritis health care professionals.
Walker is a physician with the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia, Mo., and an internist and rheumatologist at University of Missouri Health Care.
Walker also is a professor of internal medicine at MU's School of Medicine and performs research in lupus and other autoimmune diseases. She has been a Regent of the College since 1996 and will serve on the Board of Regents executive committee and the finance committee during her term as president-elect of the ACP-ASIM.
ACP-ASIM is the nation's largest medical specialty society. Its membership comprises more than 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students. Internists are specialists in the prevention, detection and treatment of illnesses that primarily affect adults. Walker will begin her one-year term as President-elect on March 31, 2001, and assume the presidency in April 2002.
Walker is chair of the national ACP-ASIM membership committee. The former ACP Governor for Missouri (1991-95), she has been a member of the membership committee, the credentials subcommittee, marketing and communications committee and the executive committee of the ACP Board of Governors.
Walker became a Fellow of the ACP in 1973. In 1996, she was elected a Master and was cited for her extensive contributions to the medical literature: 73 investigative publications; 16 clinical publications; 86 abstracts; and 16 book chapters.
The new president-elect received her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston and was a resident at the Baylor University College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals. Walker also completed a fellowship at the Rackham Arthritis Research at the University of Michigan. She is board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology. She has been with MU Health Care since 1980.
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