Dr Woodruff Walker has held the post of Consultant Radiologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford since 1981. He was Director of Radiology for 7 years and is currently Clinical Tutor. He also works at the London Clinic in London, Mount Alvernia and the Nuffield Hospitals in Guildford and the Ashtead Hospital. He has and international in interventional radiology and has been carrying out embolisations since 1974. He is experienced in all types of interventional radiology, CT, ultrasound and MRI scanning and is particularly interested in fibroid embolisation and other gynaecological interventional procedures and scanning.
Medical Education & Main Post Graduate Appointments:
Qualifications
MB, BS, 1970, FRCR 1977, FFR(SA) 1977
Current Appointments
Professional Bodies
Society Memberships
Chapters, Articles and Papers on Gynaecological Interventional Procedures and Diagnosis excluding Fibroid Embolisation
Chapters
Laparoscopic and Ultrasound Guided Transvaginal Management of Benign Ovarian Tumours
Walker W J, Sutton C. Gynaecological Endoscopic Surgery. Ed Sutton C, Chapman & Hall 1997
The Role of Imaging Techniques in the Diagnosis of Menorrhagia. Walker WJ. Menorrhagia, Isis Medical Media, Oxford. April 1999: 53-71. Ed Sheth C, Sutton C
Articles
Ultrasound guided ovarian cyst aspiration in pregnancy
Thomas SJ, Walker WJ. Journal of Interventional Radiology 1996. 11: 4. 169-72
Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration of ovarian cysts: diagnosis and treatment in pregnant and nonpregnant women
Khaw KT, Walker, WJ. Clinical Radiology. 1990: 41: 105-8
Ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration of ovarian cysts: diagnosis and treatment in pregnant and nonpregnant women
Khaw KT, Walker WJ 1990. Abstracts published Mosby Year Book. (Voted outstanding publication in its field and republished in Clinical Digest).
Invited Lectures and Demonstrations
University of Southern California - Los Angeles - June 1991
Lectures on thrombolytic therapy and ovarian cyst aspiration
National and International Meetings at which Dr. Walker has been invited to speak on fibroid embolisation
Embolisation of the uterine arteries in the treatment of fibroids. 6th Congress of the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy, Walker WJ
Birmingham UK December 1997
Interventional radiology in severe OBGYN haemorrhage, Walker WJ
Symposium on Pelvic Embolisation, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, 5th March 1998
Uterine artery embolisation for myomata, Walker WJ
International Society of Gynaecological Endoscopists,
26-29 August 1998, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Uterine artery embolisation for fibroids, Walker WJ
10th Anniversary International Conference
The Society for Minimal Invasive Therapy (SMIT)
September 3-5 1998
Embolisation of uterine myomata, Walker WJ, Green A
First International Congress on Uterine Myoma.
Cairo. 5th & 6th November 1998
Bilateral uterine artery embolisation for fibroids, Walker WJ
Joint RSOG/BSGR Meeting, Royal Society of Obstetrics & Gynaecology,
London, 5-7th November 1998
Embolisation of Uterine Myomata, Walker WJ
7th Congress of the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
Lausanne, Switzerland, 6-9 December 1998
Bilateral Uterine Embolisation for fibroids, Walker WJ. New Developments in Diagnosis and Treatment in Gynaecology. Joint Meeting
Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Royal Society of Medicine, 12th February 1999
Uterine Artery Embolisation, Results, Complications and Controversies, Walker WJ
SMIT ’99 (2nd International Symposium on Uterine Artery Embolisation)
Boston, MA, USA, September 1999
Complications in Uterine Fibroid Embolization, Walker WJ
Society of Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiology
Washington, USA,October 1999
Submitted Papers on Fibroid Embolisation
Arterial embolisation for uterine fibroids. The end of the endoscopic approach? Walker WJ, Dover R, Sutton CS
6th Congress of the European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
Birmingham UK December 1997
Arterial embolisation for uterine fibroids the end of the endoscopic approach, Walker WJ, Dover R
The International Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
South Africa, March 1998
Bilateral uterine artery embolisation for fibroids, Walker WJ
British Society of Interventional Radiology Annual Meeting, 3rd-5th November
1998, Glasgow
Current Research
Bilateral Uterine Artery Embolisation for Fibroids
Observational Ethically Approved Trial commenced 1996.
Invited Teaching Abroad and Demonstrations on Fibroid Embolisation
Lectures and Demonstrations Symposium on Bilateral Uterine Artery Embolisation for Fibroids
April 8th and 9th 1999, Zaragoza (MAZ)
Lectures and Demonstrations on Bilateral Uterine Artery Embolisation for Fibroids
Charles University, Prague, November 1999
Publicity on Fibroid Embolisation
TV
BBC News, Dec 1997 Fibroids Fergus Walsh
Carlton Today, March 8 1999
Newspapers & Journals
The Telegraph, Nov 9 1997 Breakthrough that replaces Womb surgery
The Telegraph, Jan 27 1998 When shrinking is less of an Ordeal C. O’Brien
The Times, Feb 19 1998 An easy cure for fibroids T. Stuttaford
Women’s Journal, 1997 Your health risks (page 119)
TV Quick, 19-25 July 1997 Quick Health (page 28) C. Steele
General Practitioner, Feb 20 1998 Reducing fibroids with embolisation (page 66)
You (Sunday Mail Magazine) All you need to know: fibroids Jane Dewar
Sunday Express, Feb 13 2000 Good news for a growing Problem Mary Salmon