Ian Walsh’s Profile
Professor Ian Walsh is a Urologist and Senior Lecturer at Kingsbridge Private Hospital, Kingsbridge Maypole Clinic and Queen’s University Belfast/Oxford University and now resident Urologist at Kingsbridge Private Hospital Sligo.
Professor Walsh was Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of California, where he completed a subspecialty Fellowship in Reconstructive and Neuro-Urology before returning to Belfast. Prior to this, he trained in Northwest England, Northern Ireland and USA (Urology Fellowships in Chicago, Boston and Miami).
His subspecialty areas of expertise include functional urology, sexual dysfunction, urinary incontinence and bladder dysfunction, psychosexual medicine, neurourology, human factors, patient safety, cognition, arts in medicine and qualitative research (for which he was awarded a Master of Science degree with distinction). He has produced two theses and circa 130 publications. He has been conferred Senior Fellowship of The Higher Education Authority and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.
Professor Walsh is Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Irish Association of Sexual Medicine and a founding member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons Society for Female, Neurological and Urodynamic Urology; as well as Editor of both The Journal of Psychosexual Medicine and Healthcare. He leads both Healthcare Human Factors in N. Ireland and Medical Humanities at Queen’s University Belfast and is a senior Council Member of The Institute of Psychosexual Medicine.
Professor Walsh was recently appointed Honorary Professor of Practice, Queen’s University Belfast, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences in the disciplines of Urology, Surgery and Psychosexual Medicine.
Current NHS Posts
Clinical Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast
Clinical Tutor at Oxford University
