Dr. Walsh is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and a member of the medical retina service at the Doheny Eye Institute. He has an engineering degree from Stanford University and an MD from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. After a medical internship on the Osler Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Walsh completed his ophthalmology residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He came to the Doheny Eye Institute as a Retina Fellow in 2002 and subsequently joined the faculty.
Dr. Walsh’s research interests include diagnostic medical imaging, telemedicine and surgical instrument design. He wrote his first piece of medical software at the age of seventeen. Immediately following college, he was recruited to Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Eugene de Juan to help start the MADLAB – now housed at Doheny. As a resident, Dr. Walsh developed the largest free, online atlas of ophthalmic disorders in the world - www.RedAtlas.org. His research at Doheny has focused on quantitative retinal imaging.