Walker is the First Nurse to be the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador

Rachel Walker, nursing and CPHM, is the first nurse to be selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Lemelson Foundation as an AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador. Walker is a nurse inventor whose scholarship is grounded in her experiences as a rural emergency medical and disaster relief worker, U.S. Peace Corps volunteer and oncology nurse. She is also associate director for the UMass Amherst Institute for Applied Life Science’s Center for Personalized Health Monitoring.