Jennifer R. Walton MD, MPH, FAAP

Jennifer Walton, MD, MPH, FAAP, is an assistant professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Ohio State University, and an attending physician in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, her fellowship in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and earned her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.

Dr. Walton is the Director of Clinical Services at the Ohio State University’s Nisonger Center, one of the nation’s University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). Dr. Walton is also an Associate Director of the Ohio State’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Program, one of fifty-two LEND programs funded by the Maternal Child Health Bureau (MCHB), with the purpose of providing trainees from diverse professions with leadership development and education in interdisciplinary care and management of individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Dr. Walton is the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Resident Rotation Director for Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s pediatric residency program, and the Co-Director of the hospital’s Williams Syndrome Clinic. Dr. Walton specializes in the identification and management of children with Williams syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, developmental delay, intellectual disability, and other behavioral and developmental disabilities, as well as the interdisciplinary collaboration and management of these individuals.