Prof Paul Walker

After graduating in medicine and surgery from the University of NSW in 1982, Conjoint Professor Paul Walker was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1991. Following this, he spent time at the Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicag- USA, and then was the Fellow in Paediatric Otolaryngology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, 1991-1992. At the Hospital for Sick Children, Paul focused on acquiring a wide range of skills in both the operative and the non-operative management of disorders affecting the ear, nose, and throat in children. Paul has had a practice in Newcastle exclusively for the care of children, since 1992. He was elected t- the prestigious American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology in 1995. Paul gained his Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 2000. He is currently the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology. He is a member of the RACS Section of Academic Surgery, the RACS Ethics Committee, and the Australian Association of Bioethics and Health Law. Paul als- received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.