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Kingsbridge Hospital

UK 028 90 667 878  ROI 048 90 667 878 

Sligo Hospital

ROI 071 916 2649 

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ROI 048 9068 8858 

Professor Ian Walsh

Consultant Urologist

GMC No. 3199534 / IMC 424264
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Professor Ian Walsh is a Urologist and Senior Lecturer at Kingsbridge Private Hospital, Kingsbridge Maypole Clinic and Queen’s University Belfast/Oxford University and now resident Urologist at Kingsbridge Private Hospital Sligo.

Professor Walsh was Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of California, where he completed a subspecialty Fellowship in Reconstructive and Neuro-Urology before returning to Belfast. Prior to this, he trained in Northwest England, Northern Ireland and USA (Urology Fellowships in Chicago, Boston and Miami).

His subspecialty areas of expertise include functional urology, sexual dysfunction, urinary incontinence and bladder dysfunction, psychosexual medicine, neurourology, human factors, patient safety, cognition, arts in medicine and qualitative research (for which he was awarded a Master of Science degree with distinction). He has produced two theses and circa 130 publications. He has been conferred Senior Fellowship of The Higher Education Authority and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.

Professor Walsh is Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Irish Association of Sexual Medicine and a founding member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons Society for Female, Neurological and Urodynamic Urology; as well as Editor of both The Journal of Psychosexual Medicine and Healthcare. He leads both Healthcare Human Factors in N. Ireland and Medical Humanities at Queen’s University Belfast and is a senior Council Member of The Institute of Psychosexual Medicine.

Professor Walsh was recently appointed Honorary Professor of Practice, Queen’s University Belfast, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences in the disciplines of Urology, Surgery and Psychosexual Medicine

Current NHS / Academic Posts

Clinical Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast
Clinical Tutor at Oxford University

Personal profile

Professor Walsh is a professional musician (classically trained multi- instrumentalist) and works as a music producer. He is also a professional writer, with both fiction and nonfiction amongst his published works. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts..

Professor Ian Walsh is a proud supporter of Kingsbridge Foundation. Contributing monthly to aid charitable causes in Northern Ireland.

Qualifications

MD MSc FRCSGlasg FRCSI FRCSUrol SFHEA MIPM

GMC No. 3199534

Honorary Professor of Practice

Queen’s University Belfast, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences in the disciplines of Urology, Surgery and Psychosexual Medicine

Professional bodies (Positions held in last 3 years)

GMC Specialist Register (Urology)

Member of British Association of Urological Surgeons

Member of Institute of Psychosexual Medicine

Scientific Chair of Irish Association of Psychosexual Medicine

Fellow of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow

Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Senior Fellow of Higher Education Authority

British Medical Association

Ulster Medical Society

Chair of Healthcare Human Factors NI

The Balint Society

Renal Arts Group

Chair of Transatlantic Arts

Humanities and Healthcare

Irish Society of Urology

Board of Directors Arts Care NI

Royal Society of Arts

Publications

Walsh IK. Physical Aspects of the Sex Response.

Introduction to Psychosexual Medicine, 3rd Edition, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group 2019

Carswell C, Noble HR, Walsh IK, Reid J. Visual Arts-Based Interventions for Hospitalised Patients with Cancer: A Systematic Literature review.

British Journal of Healthcare Management 2018 24 (12), 611-16.

Walsh I, Quinn J, Spencer A, Noble H. AnArtomy: Arts, Anatomy and Medicine – Human Beings Being Human.

MedEdPublish, 2018, 7, [3], 66  

Walsh IK. Medicine and Humanities: Human Beings Being Human.

IPMJ 2017; 72: 13-17

Walsh IK, Murphy P. Healtheatre: Drama and Medicine in Concert.

Healthcare 2017. 5, 37

Editorial: Mindfulness in Healthcare. Healthcare Oct 2020

Complex arts-based interventions for patients receiving haemodialysis: A realist review. Arts and Health 2020

Treatments and areas of interest

  • Sexual dysfunction - male and female
  • Erectile dysfunction
  • Bladder problems
  • Urinary problems
  • Psychosexual dysfunction
  • Medicolegal services

Consultation Fee

Initial Face-To-Face Consultation Fee £220

Follow Up Consultation Fee £180

Video and Telephone Consultation (New and Review)  £150

Administration Fee

A £35.00 admin fee is charged in addition to the Consultation Fee

Associated Insurance Companies

  • H3
  • Bupa
  • AXA
  • Aviva
  • Vitality
  • WPA

Kingsbridge Private Hospital Sligo
Ray MacSharry Road, Gardenhill, Sligo, Co. Sligo, F91XO54

Kingsbridge Outpatient Clinic Maypole
5-7 Shore Rd, Holywood, BT18 9HX

Kingsbridge Private Hospital
811-815 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7GX

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Professor Ian Walsh's Services

At our Belfast location
Cancer Services Urological Cancers Urodynamics Enlarged Prostate BPH Urinary Retention Prostate Assessment Clinic Urology Clinic Vasectomy Clinic Urology and Testicular Clinic Circumcision
At our Sligo location
Urodynamics Urology and Testicular Clinic
At our North West location
Urology Clinic Vasectomy Clinic Urology and Testicular Clinic

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