Christopher Walker, RN, NP, NEA-BC

Christopher Walker is COO of Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. In this role, he oversees strategic planning, clinical practice excellence, regulatory compliance, financial performance and daily operations for all aspects of inpatient/outpatient care delivery, surgical/procedural departments and clinical service lines. Sharp Memorial is a 656-bed hospital and is the largest, non-university, quaternary care campus in San Diego County.

Walker has 25 years of acute hospital, post-acute care and outpatient clinical nursing experience, and he has more than 15 years of progressive advancement in hospital leadership. He has demonstrated the ability to lead organizational change at the highest level with proven results in efficiency and quality. As the chief nursing and operating officer, Walker led Sharp Coronado Hospital through a fourth consecutive gold-level Planetree Patient-Centered Hospital certification. He helped lead Sharp Memorial Hospital toward an Emergency Nurses Association’s Lantern Designation for Emergency Nursing Excellence, the first awarded in the San Diego region, and three consecutive ANCC Magnet Recognitions. 

Walker received his Bachelor of Science in nursing from Saint Louis University and his Master of Science from San Diego State University for advanced practice nursing.