Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.

University Distinguished Service Professor of Urology
The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and
Department of Urology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine


Dr. Walsh is best known for his pioneering work in the development of “the anatomic approach to radical prostatectomy”, which involves nerve-sparing techniques that have reduced the probability of impotence and incontinence, and for his 30 years as the Professor and Director of the Brady Urological Institute. He has also made major contributions to the basic understanding of benign and malignant neoplasms of the prostate. Along with co-workers, he was the first to describe the 5 alpha-reductase enzyme deficiency, to develop an experimental technique for the induction of benign prostatic hyperplasia, to demonstrate the influence of reversible androgen deprivation on BPH, and to characterize hereditary prostatic cancer. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, formerly named the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. For 15 years he was on the Editorial Board of the New England Journal of Medicine and for 25 years was the editor-in-chief of Campbell’s Textbook of Urology, which has been renamed Campbell Walsh in his honor. In 1996, Dr. Walsh received the Charles F. Kettering Medal from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation for “the most outstanding recent contributions to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.” Dr. Walsh was honored as the 2007 National Physician of the Year for Clinical Excellence by America's Top Doctors®, and received the 2007 King Faisal International Prize in Medicine for his contributions to prostate cancer. In 2012 he was awarded the Francis Amory Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Together with Janet F. Worthington, he authored the best-selling books for lay people The Prostate: A Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them, which is published by Johns Hopkins University Press (1995) and Warner Books (1997) and more recently, Dr. Patrick Walsh’s Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer, Warner Books (2001), Warner Wellness (2007), Hachette Book Group (2012). Dr. Walsh served as the president of both the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons and the Clinical Society of Genitourinary Surgeons. To learn more about Dr. Walsh and his views on prostate cancer, watch his interview with Charlie Rose:
http://urology.jhu.edu/prostate/videoWalsh.php

Birthdate February 13,1938
1956-60 A.B. - Case Western Reserve University
1960-64 M.D. - Case Western Reserve University
1964-65 Internship in Surgery
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston Massachusetts
1965-66 Junior Assistant Resident in Surgery
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
1966-67 Assistant Resident in Pediatric Surgery
The Children's Hospital Medical Center,
Boston, Massachusetts
1967-71 Resident in Urology
University of California, Los Angeles, California
1968-70 Fellow in Endocrinology
UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor General Hospital Campus, Los Angeles, California
1971-73 Urologist, Naval Hospital, San Diego, California
Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery/Urology
1973-74
Visiting Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Metabolism
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, Texas
1974-2004 David Hall McConnell Professor
Director, Department of Urology,
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1974-2004 Urologist-in-Chief
The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
2004- University Distinguished Service Professor of Urology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Baltimore, Maryland