Title: Vice-President, Medicine
Email: robin.walker@iwk.nshealth.ca

Dr. C. Robin Walker is Vice-President, Medicine at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, NS and a Full Professor of Pediatrics at Dalhousie University. He was educated in the U.K. at King's School, Macclesfield before receiving the degree MB, ChB in medicine in 1971 from the University of Manchester. His postgraduate work in pediatrics and neonatal-perinatal medicine was at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS and he received his FRCPC (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada) in pediatrics in 1977, as well as subsequently the designation FAAP (Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics). Dr. Walker has been Director of Perinatal Pediatrics at The Moncton Hospital, Moncton, NB; Chief of Neonatology at Queen's University in Kingston, ON; and Medical Director of Critical Care at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa ON. His research as Co-Principal Investigator of the Medical Information Technology Research Group is in decision-support systems using artificial intelligence tools in neonatal medicine, as well as evidence-based approaches to improving practice in neonatal intensive care. Dr. Walker has published over 170 peer-reviewed papers and conference abstracts as well as having given 150 invited presentations at regional, national and international events. He is Chair of the Committee on Pediatric Education of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a former President of the Canadian Paediatric Society.

Outside of his daily work, Dr. Walker has been an active advocate for the health needs of children and youth for over two decades. In the past he has been designated an "Honoured and Outstanding Citizen of Moncton", elected President of the Canadian Council on Children and Youth (during which term the CCCY with 3 other organizations made the public declaration that led to Campaign 2000, Canada's national public awareness movement to end child poverty), cited for outstanding research achievement by the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, elected Vice-President of the North American Foundation for the University of Manchester, and awarded the Commemorative Medal for the Queen's Golden Jubilee in recognition of work advancing the rights of children & youth ("for his commitment to the right of all children to a healthy start in life"). On Canada Child Day in 2004 in the Nation's capital he was cited as a "Luminary, who gives profound meaning and power to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child".