U of M MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS RESEARCH GROUP

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John R. Walker, Ph.D.
Member
Anxiety Disorders Program
M5 - St. Boniface General Hospital
409 Tache Ave.
Winnipeg,MB, Canada, R2H 2A6
(Phone) 204-237-2055
(Fax) 204-237-6264
(Email) jwalker@cc.umanitoba.ca

Dr. Walker, is a clinical psychologist and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Program at St. Boniface General Hospital. He is also a Professor of Clinical Health Psychology at University of Manitoba and adjunct professor in the Departments of Psychology and Community Health Sciences. Dr. Walker is active in research, particularly in the areas of anxiety disorders and epidemiology. He supervises senior clinical psychology students in their training in research and treatment in the anxiety disorders area and provides individual and group treatment services himself. He is an editor of a book titled Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia: A Comprehensive Guide for the Practitioner (1991) and more recently has written chapters on social anxiety disorder and treatment of intense illness worries. He has just completed a self-help book for individuals with social anxiety with his colleague Dr. Murray Stein. Dr. Walker has a special interest in self-help approaches to treatment of anxiety disorders and has completed treatment evaluation studies demonstrating the benefits of self-help materials with panic disorder and social phobia. He serves on the board of a local self-help association (the Anxiety Disorders Association of Manitoba) and has worked with them to develop self-help programs that provide assistance to individuals with anxiety disorders in a large region around Winnipeg. Areas of research interest include epidemiology and risk factors for anxiety disorders and major depression and cognitive-behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Chartier, M.J., Walker, J.R., & Stein, M.B. (in press). Examining the relationship between childhood adversities and social
phobia in a community sample. Psychological Medicine.

Stein, M.B., Norton, G.R., & Walker, J.R. (in press). Do SSRIs enhance the efficacy of very brief cognitive behavioral
therapy? Psychiatry Research.

Van Ameringen, M.A., Lane, R.M., , Walker, J.R., Bowen, R.C., Chokka, P.R., Goldner, E., Johnson, D., Lavallie, Y-J,
Nandy, S., Pecknold, J.C., Hadrava, V., & Lane, R.M. Swinson, R. (in press) Sertraline treatment of social phobia: A
20-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. American Journal of Psychiatry.

Walker, J.R., Van Ameringen, M.A., Swinson, R., Bowen, Chokka, P.R., Goldner, E., FRCP(C), MHSc, Johnston,
    D.C., Lavallie, Y-J., Nandy, S., Pecknold, J.C., Hadrava, V., & Lane, R.M. (in press). Prevention of relapse in
    generalized social phobia: Results of a 24-week study in responders to 20-weeks of sertraline treatment. Journal of
    Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Cox, B.J., Walker, J.R., Enns, M.W., & Karpinski, D.C. (2002). Self-criticism in generalized social phobia and response
to cognitive-behavioral treatment. Behavior Therapy, 33, 479-491.

Cox, B.J., Enns, M.W., Freeman, P., & Walker, J.R. (2001). Anxiety sensitivity and major depression: Examination of
affective state dependence. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39, 1349-1356.

Cox, B.J., Enns, M.W., Walker, J.R., Kjernisted, K., & Pidlubny, S.R. (2001). Psychological vulnerabilities in patients with
major depression versus panic disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39, 567-573.

Stein, M.B., Torgrud, L.J., Walker, J.R. (2000) Social phobia symptoms, subtypes, and severity: Findings from a
community survey. Archives of General Psychiatry, 57, 1046- 1052.

Stein, M.B., Walker, J.R., & Forde, D.R. (2000). Gender differences in susceptibility to posttraumatic stress disorder.
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38(6), 619-628.

Vincent, N., & Walker, J. (2000). Perfectionism and chronic insomnia. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 49, 349 - 354.

Walker, J.R., & Kjernisted, K.D. (2000) Fear: The impact and treatment of social phobia. Journal of Psychopharmacology,
14(2) (Supplement 1), S13-S24.

Walker, J.R., Vincent, N., Furer, P., Cox, B.J., & Kjernisted, K.D. (2000). Treatment preference in hypochondriasis.
Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 30, 251-258.

Norton, G.R., Norton, P.J., Walker, J.R., Cox, B.J., & Stein, M.B.. (1999). A comparison of people with and without
nocturnal panic attacks. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 30(1), 37-44.

Norton, G.R., Buhr, K, Cox, B.J., Norton, P.J., & Walker, J.R. (1999). The role of depressive versus anxiety-related
cognitive factors in social anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 28, 309-314.

CHAPTERS:

Walker, J. R., & Stein, M.B. (1995). The epidemiology of social phobia. In M.B. Stein (Ed.), Social phobia: Clinical
and research perspectives. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

Furer, P., Walker, J.R., & Freeston, M. Practical approaches to individual and group cognitive behavior therapy. In
G. Asmundson, S. Taylor, B. Cox (Eds.) (In Press). Health anxiety: Clinical and research perspectives on
hypochondriasis and related disorders. London: John Wiley.

BOOKS:

Walker, J.R., Norton, G.R., & Ross, C.A. (Editors) (1991). Panic disorder and agoraphobia: A comprehensive guide
for the practitioner. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole.

Stein, M.B., & Walker, J.R. (in press, expected July, 2001) Triumph over shyness. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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