Jim Walker

Dr. Walker, a native of Montana, was the Sport Science Program director at TOSH-Intermountain Healthcare for 27 years. His professional interest and expertise is in the connection between physiology and movement mechanics and how they relate to performance, and injury risk and prevention. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications and abstracts, and has presented on these topics at numerous local, regional and national professional conferences. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Exercise and Sport Science with emphases in Exercise Physiology, Biomechanics, Training Theory, and Sport Nutrition from Montana State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Utah respectively. He competed as a distance runner collegiately and post-collegiately, and he was a US Junior National Champion and US Olympic Trials qualifier. He has advised and coached athletes in multiple sports over the years, most notably some of America's best distance runners, at the high school, collegiate, and Olympic levels and most recently was a nationally ranked USA Track and Field Masters runner at 1500 meters, the mile, and 5000 meters before he hung up his racing shoes.