Conveniently located in Menlo Park near downtown Palo Alto, Dr. Marisa Walker's new dental practice is now accepting new patients. Whether you need a dentist for routine care or one to solve your complex problems we are ready to help.
DR. MARISA WALKER, DDS, DENTIST
Dr. Marisa Walker grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where she attended dental hygiene school and worked with several internationally known practitioners, including Dr. Rory Hume, Dr. Paul Abbott and Dr. Geoffrey Heithersay, whose research she helped organize, write and publish. Dr. Walker later moved to the US to attend school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a BS in Biology and a DDS from graduate dental program.
Dr. Walker moved to California in 2008, where she was an associate Dentist in Palo Alto and a clinical instructor at the Foothill College for 5 years. Dr. Walker is invested in teaching and continues to teach in the dental hygiene clinic as well as lecture in nitrous oxide sedation and oral pathology. She will also be part of the school’s faculty as it brings the first BS in Dental Hygiene to Foothill College here in Northern California.
In 2014, Dr. Walker was honored to be chosen by Dr. Rich Jensen to carry on his practice and to welcome her own patients to the newly designed and built dental facilities on 150 Middlefield Road in Menlo Park.
Dr. Walker is a proud member of the American and Australian Dental Associations, the California Dental Association and the Mid-Peninsula Dental Society. She is on the advisory board of the dental hygiene program at Foothill College and on the New Dentist Welcoming Board of the Mid-Peninsula Dental Society. She is certified in Invisalign Clear Braces.
She is also an invited member of several dental study groups in the area, including the ITI Straumann International Study group and the Mid-Peninsula Interdisciplinary Study group, where she continues to take additional courses to stay abreast of medical findings and dental findings, new techniques and equipment.
You can read more about Dr. Walker’s background on her LinkedIn page.
