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Local doctor named trustee for foundation
Dr. Robert B. Walker has been elected as a new trustee for the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.
Purchase this photoHUNTINGTON -- Dr. Robert B. Walker has been elected as a new trustee for the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.
The foundation announced that G. Randolph Worls, CEO of the Oglebay Foundation, has stepped down as an active trustee of the foundation and has been elected an emeritus trustee.
Walker, vice chancellor for health sciences for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, was elected to replace Worls effective Jan. 1.
Walker served as a professor and chairman of family and community health at the Marshall University School of Medicine and dean of clinical affairs. He has served as executive vice dean of the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall, where he has held leadership and faculty positions since 1979. He also was instrumental in developing the Lincoln County primary care center in Hamlin, where he still practices.
In 2000, Walker received the National Rural Health Association's Distinguished Educator Award. He has been named "West Virginia Professor of the Year" and a "Distinguished West Virginian" and has served on task forces for the governor and as a rural health adviser to the U.S. Congress. He is a member of the West Virginia Academy of Family Physicians and has special interests in rural health, medical zoology, parasitology and epidemiology.
He received his meidal degree from the University of Florida College of Medicine and received further training from Wake Forest University's Bowman-Gray School of Medicine. He is board certified in family practice and preventive medicine, holds a master's degree in community health, a certificate of added qualification in geriatrics, and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Fraternity.
Worls, who served as a trustee since 1994, will maintain a close relationship with the foundation and its work serving the people of West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation was established in 1944 by Michael and Sarah Benedum, natives of West Virginia, as a memorial to their only child, Claude Worthington, who died in 1918 at the age of 20.
More information is available at www.benedum.org.
