CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN

CRAIG M. WALKER, MD
Founder, Medical Director, Interventional Cardiologist
Cardiovascular Institute of the South
Houma, LA

Dr. Walker is a native of Bourg, Louisiana and a graduate of Nicholls State University, Thibodaux. He attended LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He received his postgraduate training in cardiology at Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans and completed a research and teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, before returning to Houma to establish Cardiovascular Institute of the South, where he remains its medical director.

Dr. Walker was named one of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce's Ten Outstanding Young Americans for 1992. He has published hundreds of articles and many book chapters. He was a first tier investigator for most new interventional devices.

He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Cardiovascular Interventionists, the International College of Angiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions and the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Walker performs live case demonstrations throughout the world on interventional techniques.