Judith Walsh, M.D., MPH

Assistant Clinical Professor Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Director Women's Health Elective Attending Physician, DGIM UCSF/Mount Zion and Bay Spring Women's Medical Group

Education

• Undergraduate: Biology and Psychology
• Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
• Graduate School: University of California, Los Angeles
• Residency: University of California, San Francisco
• Fellowship: General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco

Areas of Interest

• Evidence based medicine
• Women's health
• Cancer screening and prevention
• Women and CHD prevention
• Hormone replacement therapy
• Eating disorders

Walsh JME, McPhee SJ, A systems model of clinical preventive care: an analysis of factors influencing patient and physician. Health Educ Quart 1992; 19: 157-175.

Hulley SB, Walsh JME, Newman TB. Health policy on blood cholesterol: time to change directions. Circulation 1992; 86: 1026-1029.

Walsh JME. Cancer screening in older adults. West J Med 1992; 156: 495-500.

Walsh JME, Baron RB, Browner WS. Screening for hypercholesterolemia in a general internal medicine practice. West J Med, 1993; 158: 359-363

Walsh JME, Papadakis MA. Prevention training and medical residency. Am J Prev Med 1994; 10:168-171.

Walsh JME, Grady D. Treatment of hyperlipidemia in women. JAMA 1995:274:1152-1158.

Walsh, JME, Brown J et al. Hormone replacement therapy: factors influencing women's decision making. Menopause 1997:4: 1-6

Walsh JME. A primary care approach to managing complex cases of hyperlipidemia in women. Medscape, Women’s Health, 1998.

Walsh, JME. Cervical cancer. New developments in screening and evaluation of the abnormal Pap smear. West j Med 1998;169: 304-310.

Charney P, Walsh, JME, Nattinger A. Update in women’s health. Ann Intern Med 1998;129: 551-8.

Walsh, JME, Swangard D, Davis T, McPhee S. Exercise counseling by primary care physicians in the era of managed care. Amer J Prev Med 1999; 16: 307-313.

Atkins D, Walsh JME, Pignone M. Lipid screening in women. Journal of the Women’s Medical Association. 1999 in press.

Walsh, JME, Posner, SF, Perez-Stable, EJ. Colon Cancer Screening in the Ambulatory Setting. Submitted for publication.

Book Chapters

Walsh JME. Lipids: Natural History and Pharmacologic Management. In Women and Heart Disease. P Charney editor. American College of Physicians 1998, Philadelphia.

Letters

Walsh JME. Cholesterol lowering for primary prevention (letter) JAMA 1999:281:416-417.

Walsh JME, Newman TS. Cholesterol screening in young adults (letter). JAMA 1993;270:1546.

Abstracts

Walsh JME, Baron RB, Browner WS. Predictors of screening for hypercholesterolemia in a general internal medicine practice. Presented at 14th annual meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine. 1991.

Walsh JME, Browner WS, Gullion D, Baron RB. Predictors of screening for hypercholesterolemia in a community setting. Presented at 15th annual meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine. 1992.

Walsh JME, Browner WS, Cauley JA. Factors associated with walking for exercise in independent living elderly women. Presented at 15th annual meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine. 1992.

Walsh JME, Papadakis MA. Prevention training and medical residency. Presented at 16th annual meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine. 1993.

Walsh JME, Brown J, Kagawa M, Grady D. Hormone replacement therapy: factors influencing women's desision making . Presented at North American Menopause Society 1995.

Walsh, JME, Posner, S, Perez-Stable, EJ. Colon cancer screening in the ambulatory setting. Presented at 22nd annual meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine. 1999