Dr Michael Walker (BDS, FICD, FPFA) has provided sedation training in Singapore, New Zealand and throughout Australia. He is a past President and past Treasurer of the Australian Society of Dental Anaesthesiology (ASDA).

Dr Walker is the Clinical Senior Lecturer for the Diploma in Intravenous Sedation at the University of Sydney, and is also the external examiner for the diploma. He has been a credentialed assessor for AHPRA and currently sits on the Dental Board conscious sedation advisory panel.

He has been a consultant to a number of state health departments on sedation and anaesthesia in dentistry, and has been involved with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists consultation committee on the PS-09 guidelines for sedation in interventional medical, dental or surgical procedures.

Dr Walker also runs a very busy full-time private sedation practice, providing nitrous oxide sedation and intravenous sedation daily.