David Walton, MD earned his BA from Augustana College in 1998 and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2003. He completed the Doris and Howard Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2007. Dr. Walton is currently an Associate Physician and Hospitalist in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He divides his time between Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Hôpital de Lascahobas in Haiti, where he serves as the Associate Director of the hospital. His responsibilities in Lascahobas include directing and supervising a team of healthcare professionals and community health workers, leading HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention programs, going on home visits to see patients, and conducting operational research. His most recent projects have focused on the scale up of healthcare delivery in central Haiti; this included the design and construction of a new 56-bed hospital for which Dr. Walton is now medical director. In addition to supervising GHE residents in Haiti, Dr. Walton also supervises five Haitian resident physicians. He focuses on case-based teaching and providing both informal and formal evaluation and feedback to the residents.
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