Judith Walsh, MD, MPH

Dr. Walsh is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. She is a practicing primary care physician at the UCSF Women’s Health Primary Care Practice and she is a cancer control researcher. Her research focuses on cancer screening, early detection and prevention and other preventive interventions in primary care practice and in diverse populations. She has been funded by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute to conduct research on increasing rates of age-appropriate cancer screening. She has also been funded by the California Tobacco Related Disease Research Program to encourage smoking cessation and lung cancer screening in high risk individuals. She is currently a co-investigator on a CDC funded grant focused on identifying factors that predict early identification of ovarian cancer. In the current study, she and her team will evaluate barriers and facilitators to early diagnosis of ovarian cancer in a multi-ethnic population.