User:Geworthomd/Grant walker

Grant Walker, DC, MD Dr. Grant Walker was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 25, 1959 to Lorraine and Roy Walker. They moved to Calgary, Canada when he was one years old. He was one of 8 children and went to Catholic elementary, junior high and high school. He entered into his long martial arts career at the age of 13, winning a silver medal for the NKA Provincial Finals in 1980. He remains a devote practitioner of mixed martial arts. He attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and practiced as an electrical engineer for Lamb McManus Associates in Calgary, Canada. The baseball stadium in Calgary was one of his electrical designs. He attended Mount Royal College and the University of Calgary for pre-med but ended up moving to the United States to attend the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic instead. He won the Chemistry Student of the Year at Mount Royal College. He graduated from L.A.C.C. in 1988 suma cum laude. He twice won the $6,000 Louise McKinna Award for being in the top 2 percentile for students in Alberta. He won the King Koil Scholarship and the Women's Auxilliary WCA Scholarship. He also won a scholarship award for the student of the year at L.A.C.C. The same year upon graduating chiropractic college, he enrolled in medical school. He graduated in 1992 from the Albany Medical College, Albany New York. His internship was in General Surgery at the University of Colorado, Health Sciences Center. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ. He then did a one year spine surgery fellowship with Gary Lowery, MD, PhD in Phoenix at MedPro Orthopaedics, the orthopaedic department of Maricopa Medical Center. He accepted an offer to build a spine surgery program and overhaul the operative /perioperative systems at Bingham Memorial Hospital in Blackfoot, Idaho. He opened practices in Blackfoot, ID and Idaho Falls, ID under the name of the Idaho Spine Center, amidst later competition from Bingham Memorial Hospital sponsored neurosurgeons as the Spine Center of Idaho, Spine Idaho and the like. He moved his practice in 2009 to Gillette, WY. He enjoys his 4 dogs (2 Scottish Deerhounds and 2 Spinone Italianos), several quarter horse paints and his collection of John Deeres. He is a hobby farmer, orthopaedic surgeon /spine surgeon, martial artist and animal lover. He enjoyed being the event physician for the Mild Seven Outdoor Adventure Race and was on staff for the first Eco-Challenge which was held in Utah. His friends call him an arm chair philosopher and an over achiever. He describes himself as on a life long quest to find the center of inner peace through friends, humor, introspection and aerobic exercise.