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Research Assistant
Professor
Phone: (503) 220-8262, ext. 56212
Fax: (503) 220-3499
E-mail: silkwalk@ohsu.edu
BSN (1970)
University of Oklahoma, Nursing
MSN (1973) Wayne State University, Child Psychiatric Nursing and
Community Mental Health
PhD (1993) University of Washington, Nursing & Epidemiology
Dr.
Silk Walker is a child psychiatric clinical specialist with a focus
on community mental health and American Indians. She is project
director and co-investigator of an NIAAA funded project, housed
in the department of psychiatry, that studies urban American Indian
youth and women. Dr. Silk Walker's research is prospective, longitudinal
assessment of risk and protective factors associated with alcohol,
drug and other mental health problems. Her work in psychiatric epidemiology
is now in its tenth year of annual assessments with several cohorts
of young adults followed from age eleven.
(click below for a full list of publications)
Walker, R.D., Howard, M.O., Walker, P.S., Lambert,
M.D., Maloy, F., & Suchinsky, R.T. Essential and reactive alcoholism:
A review. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 52(1): 80-95. 1996
Howard, M.O., Walker, R.D., Walker, P.S. & Suchinsky,
R.T. Alcohol and drug education in schools of nursing. Journal of
Alcohol and Drug Education, 42(3): 54-80, 1997
Howard, M.O., Walker, R.D., Walker, P.S., Cottler,
L.B. & Compton, W.M. Inhalant use among urban American Indian
youth. Addiction, 94(1): 83-95, 1999
Silk
Walker Publications
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