Ambassador - Dr Ross Walker
Dr Ross Walker is an eminent practising cardiologist with a passion for people and health. He is regarded as one of the world's best keynote speakers and is a best selling author.
Dr Walker is an Ambassador for Audioclinic Australia and Asteron Life Insurance.
He graduated from the University of New South Wales with Honours in 1979 and was awarded the FRACP in 1986. His special interests are advanced echocardiography, preventative screening & prevention of cardiovascular disease. He has performed more than 15,000 stress echocardiograms and 2,000 multiplane transophageal echos, has supervised over 25,000 Coronary CT scans & over 5,000 Arterial screening procedures. Dr Walker runs a busy cardiology practice in Pymble on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia, as well as his speaking & media commitments.
"Have you noticed that most people in our society are constantly tired, gaining weight (despite the health industry's incresasingly strident recommendation for low-fat diets) and are stressed beyond belief! Our everyday, modern environment of synthetic and convenience food, technology that reduces physical effort and exercise from the car you drive to work to the remote control for the television - not to mention the stresses and strains of the corporate and business world are all to blame. But what can we do about it?"
Strangely, most people seen to accept this state of affairs, and feel powerless to change their life and health for the better. But there is a solution that will ensure a longer, healthier life.
Dr Walker's life changing message is universal. Prevention is the key. From intimate corporate presentations to his speech to 35,000 people in an outdoor stadium in India, Dr Walker is empowering his audiences along the path to wellness.
Dr Walker is continually praised for the entertaining, emotive style of his presentations and constantly receives testimonial as to the effectiveness of his programs.
An internationally renowned health presenter and best-selling author, he is the author of six books: If I Eat Another Carrot I'll Go Crazy!; What's Cookin' Doc? Highway to Health, The Cell Factor and The Life Factor. His latest book released in 2006, Diets Don't Work was the number one best selling lifestyle book during the first week it was released. He regularly appears in the media.
Dr Walker has his own Health Living show at 6PM Saturday evening, Sydney time on radio 2UE, AM-954. For those of you outside Sydney, you can listen live on the internet or download the show as a podcast from the 2UE website. He is also on Melbourne's 3AW with Denis Walter and 4BC Brisbane every Thursday at 12.45pm with Moyd & Loretta. Dr Walker is a regular health presenter on Channel Nine.