
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medicine
Clinical Interests: Dr. Walsh is a primary care physician practicing at UCSF Women's Health Primary Care Clinic. Her focus is on disease prevention and women's health.
Research Interests: Dr. Walsh's research focuses on disease prevention and on implementing cancer screening interventions in primary care practice.
Educational Interests: Dr. Walsh frequently teaches about variety of women's health and primary care topics, including cancer screening, menopause, osteoporosis and current women's health issues.
Publications
LungCARE: Encouraging Shared Decision-Making in Lung Cancer Screening-a Randomized Trial.
Journal of general internal medicine
PreView: a Randomized Trial of a Multi-site Intervention in Diverse Primary Care to Increase Rates of Age-Appropriate Cancer Screening.
Journal of general internal medicine
Capsule Commentary on Jin et. al., Cost-Effectiveness of Primary HPV Testing, Cytology and Co-testing as Cervical Cancer Screening for Women above Age 30 Years.
Journal of general internal medicine
A workplace colorectal cancer screening program in firefighters: lessons learned.
Occupational medicine (Oxford, England)
The FLU-FOBT Program in community clinics: durable benefits of a randomized controlled trial.
Health education research
Preferences for genetic testing to identify hereditary colorectal cancer: perspectives of high-risk patients, community members, and clinicians.
Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
Update in women's health for the general internist.
Journal of general internal medicine
Healthy colon, healthy life: a novel colorectal cancer screening intervention.
American journal of preventive medicine
Physicians' approaches to recommending colorectal cancer screening: a qualitative study.
Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
Healthy colon, healthy life (colon sano, vida sana): colorectal cancer screening among Latinos in Santa Clara, California.
Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
Update in women's health.
Journal of general internal medicine
Acculturation and colorectal cancer screening among older Latino adults: differential associations by national origin.
Journal of general internal medicine
Improving colorectal cancer screening: a partnership between primary care practices and the American Cancer Society.
Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
Offering annual fecal occult blood tests at annual flu shot clinics increases colorectal cancer screening rates.
Annals of family medicine
Preferences for human papillomavirus testing with routine cervical cancer screening in diverse older women.
Journal of general internal medicine
Association between cancer risk perception and screening behavior among diverse women.
Archives of internal medicine
Implementing effective hypertension quality improvement strategies: barriers and potential solutions.
Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)
Breast cancer screening is risky business.
Journal of general internal medicine
Brief report: Coronary heart disease events associated with hormone therapy in younger and older women. A meta-analysis.
Journal of general internal medicine
Promoting use of colorectal cancer screening tests. Can we change physician behavior?
Journal of general internal medicine
Effect of 5-aminosalicylate use on colorectal cancer and dysplasia risk: a systematic review and metaanalysis of observational studies.
The American journal of gastroenterology
Raloxifene and colorectal cancer.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Mortality associated with hormone replacement therapy in younger and older women: a meta-analysis.
Journal of general internal medicine
Barriers to colorectal cancer screening in Latino and Vietnamese Americans. Compared with non-Latino white Americans.
Journal of general internal medicine
Lipids in women: screening and treatment.
Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)
Colon cancer screening in the ambulatory setting.
Preventive medicine
Prevention in the year 2002: some news, some issues.
Primary care
Predictors of physical activity in community-dwelling elderly white women.
Journal of general internal medicine
Update in women's health.
Annals of internal medicine
Detection, evaluation, and treatment of eating disorders the role of the primary care physician.
Journal of general internal medicine
Lipid screening in women.
Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)
Exercise counseling by primary care physicians in the era of managed care.
American journal of preventive medicine
Prevention training and medical residency.
American journal of preventive medicine
Predictors of screening for hypercholesterolemia in a general internal medicine practice.
The Western journal of medicine
Cancer screening in older adults.
The Western journal of medicine
A systems model of clinical preventive care: an analysis of factors influencing patient and physician.
Health education quarterly