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Walden named new chairman at med school
HUNTINGTON -- Dr. John B. Walden has been named chairman of the Department of Family and Community Health at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.
Walden, who followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather in becoming a family physician in West Virginia, also is the medical school's associate dean for medical school outreach and development.
Walden also founded and directs the international health track in Marshall's family practice residency program. This program has recruited to West Virginia several medical residents from other states who remained here to practice once their training was complete. Walden has visited South America every year since 1966 to help improve health care.
Walden received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his medical degree from West Virginia University. A board-certified family physician, he pursued additional studies in clinical tropical medicine at Gorgas U.S. Army Hospital in the Canal Zone and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He also earned a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in England.
He has been a full-time member of Marshall's medical faculty since 1982. In addition to serving on many university and hospital committees, he has been president and chairman of the board of the West Virginia chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
