Dr Orla Walsh

Dr Walsh completed her training in General Paediatrics in Ireland before undertaking a Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She then worked as an Adolescent Medicine Paediatrician and developed an Academic Division of Adolescent Medicine at North York General Hospital, and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto.

She currently works half time as an Adolescent Medicine Paediatrician within General Paediatrics in CHI where she runs a weekly adolescent clinic and provides an inpatient consult service. The other half of her job is developing and delivering the new service for adolescents with complex obesity in CHI, including the establishment of a transition pathway to adult services.

She has a MSc in Clinical Education and teaches on the MSc in Adolescent Health at NUIG. She established the Adolescent Medicine Network in the RCPI, and is the current Chair of the Clinical Advisory Group on Obesity. Her research interests include the medical management of adolescents with eating disorders, psychosocial outcomes for adolescents with severe obesity and transition to adult care of adolescents with chronic illness.