Xaviour Walker MD, MPH

Xaviour Walker MD, MPH, DTMH is board certified in internal medicine, public health and preventive medicine, and also board-eligible in geriatric medicine. He is passionate about improving people's health and wellbeing through lifestyle and personal development along with improving the built environment. A life long athlete, Dr. Walker has played represented his home state (province) in New Zealand in athletics, cricket and soccer, including playing international age group soccer against Paraguay, Newcastle United and has trained at the Liverpool academy. A top ranked marathoner; he has completed over 15 marathons including Boston marathon six times and NYC marathon five times with a best time of 2 hour 36 minutes. Dr. Walker obtained his medical degree in New Zealand, working in both New Zealand and Australia. He then did his internal medicine residency at Mount Auburn Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Boston where he was also chief resident, medical education fellow, and an academic hospitalist. He did his public health and preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he also received his Masters in Public Health. During this time he gained experience at the city, state, federal levels working at Baltimore Health Department, Maryland Department of Health and Hygiene and as a fellow at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH and also worked in occupational and travel medicine at GSK. He has a Diploma in a Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the renowned Gorgas Institute in Peru and has traveled to over 50 countries. Dr. Walker is involved in medical advocacy and policy and was the cofounder and inaugural chair of the Junior Doctors Network, World Medical Association. He has just his fellowship in geriatrics at the University of California Irvine and currently lives in Irvine with his wife and two children.