Dr Alfredo E Walker HBM (Gold), FRCPath, DMJ (Path), MB.BS, MFFLM, MCSFS

Forensic Pathologist & Coroner, Eastern Ontario Forensic Pathology Unit

Director of Education and Vice Chair

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa.

 Dr Alfredo E Walker is a registered forensic pathologist in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Hospital, Canada, a position he has held for the last 12 years. Previously, he was a Consultant Forensic Pathologist in England, being the only Black pathologist to be admitted to the Home Secretary’s Register of Forensic Pathologists in England and Wales.

He is a medical graduate of the School of Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, Class of 1996. He pursued postgraduate training in Anatomical Pathology and subspecialty training Forensic Pathology in the UK. He attained Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of the United Kingdom and the Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence by examination. He holds professional memberships of the UK Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, and the US National Association of Medical Examiners.

Since 2012, Dr Walker has been a Visiting Lecturer in Forensic Pathology on the postgraduate Master’s in Forensic Sciences programme at the UWI Mona campus. He consistently organizes outreach training initiatives for medicolegal practitioners throughout the Caribbean, and collaborates with the Saint Lucia Forensic Science Laboratory every year for their annual expert witness testimony training programme.

In 2022, he received the Hummingbird Medal Gold from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for his “loyal and dedicated service.’’  The Canadian Chapter of the UWI Medical Alumni Association and the Trinidad and Tobago Association of Ottawa, Canada also honoured Dr Walker in December 2022 and October 2023 respectively.

In 2021, he was appointed co-chair of an international team of seven experts by the Office of the Attorney General, of Maryland, USA to design an audit for the review of deaths in custody cases overseen by the former Chief Medical Examiner for Baltimore, in response to complaints received about testimony as a defence expert in the George Floyd murder trial.

Dr Walker is Member of the Advisory Council of Physicians for Human Rights and the Advisory Board of the Medicolegal Death Investigation International Community of Practice.