Benjamin Walker

Biographic Data

ID97359
NAMEBenjamin Walker
GIVEN NAMESBenjamin
FAMILY NAMEWalker
SIGNATUREWALKER B
AFFILIATIONSMedical Student, University of Oxford Academic Centre, Oxford, UK
ORCID0000-0002-5617-577X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1925
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Patient and Provider Concordance: Do Patients Prefer Physicians of Their Own Race or Ethnicity

    Benjamin Walker, Brigham Walker et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2026References: 34

    BACKGROUND: Understanding whether patients' preferences for physicians are influenced by racial or ethnic concordance is crucial for balancing patient care satisfaction and health care workforce diversity. OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether patients' preferences for physicians are influenced by racial or ethnic concordance and whether these preferences are reflected in the availability of physicians by race. RESEARCH DESIGN: A patient-focused ran…

  • Stroke Incidence and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein Among African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study

    Cellas A Hayes, Roland J Thorpe et al.ARTICLEEthnicity & Disease2025

    An increased and independent risk of nonfatal stroke appears at the highest quintile of hs-CRP values (≥0.0676 mg/L) among JHS participants

  • Building a Culture of Health Through the Built Environment: Impact of a Cluster Randomized Trial Remediating Vacant and Abandoned Property on Health Mindsets

    Open AccessKatherine P Theall, Jasmine Wallace et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2025References: 5

    Changing built environment conditions to impact health mindsets and health equity may be a promising target for public health interventions. The present study was a cluster randomized controlled trial to test the impact of remediating vacant and abandoned properties on factors related to health mindset-including well-being, health interconnectedness, social capital markers, neighborhood disorder, and worry-as well as direct and indirect violence …

  • Disparities in Access to Primary Care Appointments Among Asian American Subgroups, and the Impact of Concordance

    Open AccessJanna Wisniewski, Benjamin Walker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2024Cited by: 2References: 7

  • The social capital penalty paid by teetotallers

    Open AccessBenjamin Walker, Luke MunfordARTICLESSM - Population Health2023

    Social capital is important and helps protect health and reduce loneliness. Governments worldwide are pursuing policies to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed to protect public health but alcohol consumption remains a prevalent feature of social interaction in the UK. Previous studies have identified a strong relationship between alcohol and social capital which varies in direction depending on the dimension of social capital studied. Using a l…

  • Telehealth and Medicare Type 2 Diabetes Care Outcomes: Evidence From Louisiana

    Benjamin Walker, Brigham Walker et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2023References: 20

    BACKGROUND: At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services broadened access to telehealth. This provided an opportunity to test whether diabetes, a risk factor for COVID-19 severity, can be managed with telehealth services. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to examine the impacts of telehealth on diabetes control. RESEARCH DESIGN: A doubly robust estimator combined a propensity score-weighting strat…

  • Disparities in Telemedicine Use Among Louisiana Medicaid Beneficiaries During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Kevin Callison, Andrew Anderson et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2023References: 32

    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic led to an increased reliance on telemedicine. Whether this exacerbated existing disparities within vulnerable populations is not yet known. OBJECTIVES: Characterize changes in outpatient telemedicine evaluation and management (E&M) services for Louisiana Medicaid beneficiaries by race, ethnicity, and rurality during the COVID-19 pandemic. RESEARCH DESIGN: Interrupted time series regression models estimated pre-CO…

  • Opioid prescribing restrictions and opioid use among the Louisiana Medicaid population

    Open AccessKevin Callison, Dimitris Karletsos et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2022

  • Louisiana Medicaid Expansion and Pent-Up Demand

    Benjamin Walker, Brigham Walker et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2022References: 21

    BACKGROUND: Nearly half a million newly eligible people enrolled in Louisiana Medicaid following its expansion. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate postexpansion utilization trends in Louisiana Medicaid. RESEARCH DESIGN: We plotted utilization trends for expansion and traditional Medicaid beneficiaries and conducted regression analyses to evaluate differences in monthly trends for over 2 years following expansion. SUBJECTS: We restricted our sample to a bala…

  • Using point-of-care ultrasonography (Pocus) to empower medical education

    Benjamin Walker, Oscar Barnes et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2021

    "Using point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) to empower medical education." Medical Teacher, 43(7), p. 859

  • Medicaid Expansion and Medical Debt: Evidence From Louisiana, 2014–2019

    Kevin Callison, Benjamin Walker et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2021References: 18

    Objectives. To identify the association between Medicaid eligibility expansion and medical debt. Methods. We used difference-in-differences design to compare changes in medical debt for those gaining coverage through Louisiana’s Medicaid expansion with those in nonexpansion states. We matched individuals gaining Medicaid coverage because of Louisiana’s Medicaid expansion (n = 196 556) to credit report data on medical debt and compared them with r…

  • A 12-year comparison of students’ perspectives on diversity at a Jesuit Medical School

    Open AccessImran Mujawar, Matt Sabatino et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2014

    It may be postulated that the improvement in students' self-perceptions of equality and diversity over the past 12 years may have been influenced by a generational acceptance of cultural diversity and, the inclusion of diversity training courses within the medical curriculum. Diversity training related to race and sexual orientation should be expanded, including a follow-up survey to assess the effectiveness of any intervention

  • Examining Cohort Differences and Resilience among the Aging LGBT Community: Implications for Education and Practice among an Expansively Diverse Population

    Michael P Dentato, John Orwat et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Behavior in the…2014Cited by: 6References: 59

    The aging lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community continues to grow considerably while often being faced with unique and unmet needs separate from younger LGBT cohorts or their non-LGBT counterparts. This article explores some of the differences in attitudes among generational cohort groups regarding coming out decisions; sexual risk and safety; the impact of evolving policies within systems and society; as well as the demonstrat…

  • Organisational identity and alcohol use among young employees: A case study of a professional services firm

    Benjamin Walker, Benjamin W Walker et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Drug…2013

  • Ex Amicorum Epistolis

    Open AccessNicolas Van Der Blom, Jean Boulier et al.ARTICLEMoreana1971

  • Rattlesnake Root

    Benjamin WalkerARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1925