Prof Janice Walshe

Professor Janice Walshe
Consultant Medical Oncologist
St Vincent’s University Hospital, Ireland.

Janice Walshe, MD is a Clinical Professor in Medical Oncology specialising in breast cancer in St Vincent’s University Hospital, Ireland. She earned her medical degree from National University of Ireland, Galway in 1997 and completed her specialist training in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin while gaining a masters in Molecular Medicine at Trinity College, Dublin.

She completed her Fellowship in the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland where her focus was novel approaches in Her-2 positive locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer. She returned to Ireland in 2006 where she is a key member of Cancer Trials Ireland Research Group ensuring access to novel agents and research opportunities for Irish women affected by breast cancer. Through the clinical research clinic in St Vincent’s University Hospital, she has served as National principal investigator for many important international trials in breast cancer. She served as a three year member of the ASCO Scientific Program Committee in triple negative breast cancer from 2013-2015. She is also a senior lecturer at University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin.

Her research has been presented at numerous international meetings and published in prestigious peer reviewed journals. She continues to serve on the editorial board of several prominent oncology journals. She was co-chair of the Irish society of medical oncologists from 2011-2021.