
Jacqueline Walker, M.D., M.P.H.E., F.A.A.P., associate professor of pediatrics, has been appointed vice-chair clinician of the School of Medicine Council on Curriculum. She will also serve as chair of the Clerkship Directors Subcommittee.
A pediatric hospitalist and academic medical educator at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Walker serves as Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Director and is vice-chair of the national Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Directors Executive Council. She was elected to the School of Medicine Council on Curriculum in 2017 and joined the council’s steering committee the following year.
Walker is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and completed her residency and chief residency at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She then joined the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Division at Children’s Mercy. She has since served in multiple educational leadership roles on local and national levels across the spectrum of undergraduate and graduate medical education.
With scholarly interests including faculty development and implementation of academic medical curricula, Walker earned an advanced degree in education from the School of Medicine’s Master of Health Professions Education program in 2017.