Address:
Brody School of Medicine
East Carolina University
600 Moye Boulevard
Greenville, NC 27834
Phone: (252)744-2393 (clinical)
(252)744-2832 (administrative)
E-mail: walshd@ecu.edu
Current Professional and Academic Appointment:
2011 - present Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Brody
School of Medicine East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
Certification and Licensure:
Certified in General Surgery, American Board of Surgery
Certified in Pediatric Surgery, American Board of Surgery
Florida
North Carolina
Education:
1988 – 1991 Columbia College Columbia, SC
Bachelor of Arts with Chemistry Major and Mathematics Minor
Summa cum laude
1991 - 1995 University of South Florida College of Medicine Tampa, FL
Doctor of Medicine, with Honors
Postgraduate Training:
1995 - 1996 Intern in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
1996 - 1998 General Surgery Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
1998 - 2000 Fetal Surgery and Research Fellow, Children's Hospital of
Philadelpha, Philadelphia, PA
2000 - 2002 General Surgery Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
2002 - 2004 Pediatric Surgery Fellow, Children's National Medical Center
Washington, DC
Professional Society Memberships and Committees:
American College of Surgeons
American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow (FAAP)
American Pediatric Surgical Association
Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
Pediatric Liason Group
Vice Chair
Membership Committee
Legislative Committee
International Pediatric Endoscopy Group
Association of Women Surgeons
American Medical Association
Massachusetts Medical Society
Other Committees
Vascular Access Team Physician Advisor, Wolfson Children's Hospital
Academic Appointments:
1995 - 2002 Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2002 - 2004 Clinical Fellow, The George Washington University Medical Center
Washington, DC
2004 - 2011 Staff Surgeon, Wolfson Children's Hospital, Jacksonville, FL
2005 - 2011 Assistant Professor, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education
Jacksonville, FL
2009 - 2011 Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2011- present East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor Pediatric Surgery, Greenville, NC
Awards and Honors:
1988 Columbia College Presidential Scholar
1988 Lillian Pate Whitehead Scholarship
1989 Alpha Lambda Delta Academic Honor Society
1989 American Chemical Society Outstanding Chemistry Major
1990 Chi Beta Phi Scientific Honor Society
1990 Omnicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society
1991 Marion Griffin, Jr. Scholarship
1992 Alpha Omega Alpha, Gamma Chapter President
1993 Representative to the Association of American Medical Colleges
1993 Dr. and Mrs. David B. Allman Medical Award
1995 Cambridge University Externship, Cambridge, England
1995 University of South Florida Senior Honors Surgery Program
1995 Surgical Student of the Year
1996 Harvard Combined Residencies Delegate the American College of Surgeons
Laparoscopic Shootout
1996 Laparoscopic Award from Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
1998 The Kazanjian Fellowship from Massachusetts General Hospital for Research
2003 Judson Randolph Fellowship Recipient
2004 American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award
2005 Jacksonville's Best Surgeons Listing
2010 Wolfson Children's Hospital Doctor of the Year Nominee
2010 Jacsonville's Best Doctors Listing
2010 Named to America's Best Doctors (nomination and vote of peers)
2010 Nemours Physician's Award for Service Excellence Nominee
Scholarly Work:
Presentations
Vitamin A to Counteract the Effect of Steroids - November 1995.
Massachusetts General Hospital Baker Surgical Service Conference
Hyperbaric Oxygen for the Vascular Surgeon - January 22, 1998.
Massachusetts General Hospital Vascular Surgery Grand Rounds
Hyperbaric Oxygen for Wound Healing - January 29, 1998.
Massachusetts General Hospital General Surgery Grand Rounds
Superior mesenteric venous thrombosis in malrotation with chronic volvulus
September 24, 1999. Canadian Association of Pediatric Surgeons.
Montreal, Canada
A new minimally invasive technique for fetal tracheal occlusion in congenital
diaphragmatic hernia - October 10, 1999. Association of Women Surgeons.
San Francisco, CA
A new minimally invasive technique for fetal tracheal occlusion in congenital
diaphragmatic hernia - October 13, 1999. American College of Surgeons.
San Francisco, CA
Assessment of fetal lung volumes and liver herniation with magnetic resonance
imaging in congenital diaphragmatic hernia - February 3, 2000. Society of
Maternal Fetal Medicine. Miami, FL
Head circumference and ventricular size following in utero closure of
myelomeningocele - February 3, 2000. Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine. Miami, FL
Assessment of fetal lung volumes and liver herniation with magnetic resonance
imaging in congenital diaphragmatic hernia - September12, 2000.
International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society. Nantucket, MA
Head circumference and ventricular size following in utero closure of
myelomeningocele – September 12, 2000. International Fetal Medicine and
Surgery Society. Nantucket, MA.
Histologic evaluation of fetal spinal cords in myelomeningocle - October 24, 2000.
American College of Surgeons. Chicago, IL.
Pediatric renovascular disease – September 6, 2001. Massachusetts General
Hospital Vascular Surgery Grand Rounds.
Fishing for foreign bodies – August 29, 2002. Children's National Medical
Center Professor Rounds.
Babies, Blockages and Bilious Emesis – September 22, 2004. Wolfson Children's
Hospital Grand Rounds. Jacksonville, Florida.
Prenatal Sacrococcygeal Teratoma – October 20, 2004. Baptist Hospital Fetal
Diagnosis and Therapy Center. Jacksonville, Florida.
Common Pediatric Surgical Problems – January 18, 2005. St. Vincent's Family
Medicine Center. Jacksonville, Florida.
Babies, Blockages and Bilious Emesis – July 2, 2005. Amelia Island
Conference: Pediatrics for the Primary Care Physician. Amelia Island, Florida.
Abdominal Pain: The Acute and Not So Acute Abdomen – July 2, 2005. Amelia Island Conference: Pediatrics for the Primary Care Physician. Amelia Island, Florida.
Surgical Anomalies: Triage, Transport and Treatment – May 11, 2006. 10th
Annual First Coast Symposium for Neonatal Care Professionals. World Golf
Village. St. Augustine, FL
The Future of Women Surgeons – October 11, 2006. The Association of Women
Surgeons 25th Anniversary Meeting and Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
Common Pediatric Surgical Problems – November 3, 2006. Department of
Pediatrics-University Of Florida/Jacksonville at Wolfson Children's Hospital.
Jacksonville, FL.
Twenty-one Questions – Pediatric Surgery for Absite – December 4, 2006.
St. Lukes Hospital Grand Rounds. Jacksonville, Florida.
Generation Differences. A Panel on Developing Leadership Diversity - October 8, 2007.
The American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Pediatric Surgery Review – January 21, 2008. St. Lukes Hospital Grand Rounds.
Jacksonville, Florida.
Babies, Blockages, and Bilious Emesis – May 16, 2008. Recertification Lecture
for NICU Nurses, Wolfson Children's Hospital. Jacksonville, Florida.
Pediatric Hernias – September 25 -26, 2008. Instructor for SAGES Advanced
Laparoscopic Hernia Repair Course (for residents). Norwalk, Connecticut.
Pediatric Surgery Careers – October 11, 2008. American College of Surgeons.
Medical Student Section. San Francisco, California.
The Generation Gap – February 02, 2009. Mayo Clinic Grand Rounds.
Jacksonville, Florida.
Generation Differences Redefined – February 12, 2009. Columbia College
Leadership Center. Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina.
H1N1: You Have Questions, We Have Answers – September 23, 2009.
Wolfson Children's Hospital. Jacksonville, Florida.
Not Just Little Adults – March 1, 2010. Mayo Clinic Grand Rounds. Jacksonville, Florida.
Nutrition for the Young Athlete – June 19, 2010. Starlight Gymnastic Compulsory
Camp. Jacksonville, Florida. Repeated August 2, 2010. CG Gymnastics.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Mind the Gap: Generational Differences in Surgery – January 12, 2011.
University of Florida Jacksonville Grand Rounds. Jacksonville, Florida.
Generational Differences in Medicine: Impact on Membership – April 4, 2001.
Duval County Medical Society Board Meeting. Jacksonville, Florida.
Cuts In Kids – April 15, 2011. University of Florida/Wolfson Children's Hospital.
Jacksonville, Florida.
Nutrion for the Young Gymnast – June 19, 2011. Starlight Gymnastics Compulsory
Camp. Jacksonville, Florida.
Poster Presentations
Cytokine Production in Acute Pancreatitis – December 1994. Saunders (Walsh) D,
Norman J. Student/Faculty Research Poster Competition (Honorable Mention)
1H NMR Spectroscopy for Fetal Myelomeningocele - February 5, 1999. Walsh DS,
Adzick NS, Crombleholme TM, Wehrli S. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research
Poster Day
Induction of Hindbrain Herniation in Myelomeningocele: A sheep model of the
Arnold-Chiari II malformation - January 28, 2000. Walsh DS, Bouchard S,
Olutoye OO, Adzick NS. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Poster Day
Use of Quantitative PCR to Detect Fetal-Maternal Transfusion Following Fetal Surgery
February 5, 2000. Crombleholme TM, Walsh DS, Long T, Howell LJ, Flake AW, Adzick NS, Johnson MP, Bianchi DW. Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Miami, FL
Induction of Angiogenesis by Adenoviral Mediated Ex-Vivo Gene Transfer of
Human VEGF121 in Cartilage - June 1, 2000. Samadi D, Jacobs I, Bouchard S,
Walsh D, Martin B, Herlyn M, Crombleholme T. American Society of Gene
Therapy. Denver, CO
Journal Publications
Walsh DS, Johnson, MP: Fetal intervention for obstructive uropathy.
Seminars in Perinatology 23:484-495, 1999.
Walsh DS, Long T, Olutoye OO, Crombleholme TM, Flake AW, Adzick NS: A new
minimally invasive technique for fetal tracheal occlusion in congenital diaphragmatic
hernia. Surgical Forum 50:505-506, 1999.
Walsh DS, Crombleholme TM: Superior mesenteric venous thrombosis in malrotation
with chronic volvulus. J Pediatr Surg 35:753-755, 2000.
Walsh DS, Adzick NS: Fetal intervention: Where we are, where we're going. Contemp
Pediatr 17:33-58, 2000. Walsh DS, Adzick NS: Fetal surgical intervention. Am J
Perinatol 6:277-284, 2000.
Walsh DS, Hutchins GM, Radu A, Adzick NS: Histologic evaluation of fetal spinal
cords in myelomeningocele. Surgical Forum 51:440-442, 2000
Walsh DS, Hubbard AM, Olutoye OO, Howell LJ, Crombleholme TM, Flake AW,
Johnson MP, Adzick NS: Assessment of fetal lung volumes and liver herniation
with magnetic resonance imaging in congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Am J
Obstet Gyn 183:1067-1069, 2001.
Walsh DS, Adzick NS, Sutton LN, Johnson MP: The rationale for fetal repair of myelomeningocele. Fetal Diagn Ther 16:312-322, 2001.
Walsh DS: Perspectives of a woman resident. Am J Surg 131:666-669, 2002.
Jacobs IN, Tufano RP, Walsh DS, Crombleholme T: The temporal course of
adenovirus-mediated gene transfer in the rat larynx. Otolaryngol Head Neck
Surg 126(3):281-9, 2002 Mar.
Samadi DS, Jacobs IN, Walsh D, Bouchard S, Herlyn M, Crombleholme TM:
Adenovirus-mediated ex vivo gene transfer of human vascular endothelial growth
factor in a rabbit laryngotracheal reconstruction model. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol
111(4):295-301, 2002 Apr.
Bouchard S, Davey MG, Rintoul NE, Walsh DS,Rorke LB, Adzick NS: Correction
of hindbrain herniation and anatomy of the vermis after in utero repair of
myelomeningocele in sheep. J Pediatr Surg 38(3):451-8; discussion 451-8, 2003 Mar.
Walsh DS, Adzick NS: Foetal surgery for spina bifida. Semin in Neonatol 8(3):197-205,
2003 Jun. Adzick NS, Walsh DS: Myelomeningocele: Penatal diagnosis, pathophysiology
and management. Semin in Pediatr Surg 12(3):168-74, 2003 Aug.
Walsh DS: Pediatric Surgery Career Development Resource. Am J Surgery
199(2):275-277, 2010 Feb.
Katz A, Mallory B, Gilbert J, Bethel C, Hayes-Jordan A, Saito J, Tomita S, Walsh D,
Shin C, Wesley J, Farmer D: State of the practice for pediatric surgery – career
satisfaction and concerns. A report from the American Pediatric Surgical Association
Task Force on Family Issues. J Pediatr Surg. 45(10: 1975-1982. 2010 Oct.
Other Publications
Olutoye OO, Walsh DS, Walsh DS: Women are Surgeons! A pamphlet produced
by the Association of Women Surgeons in conjunction with the National Institute
for Health Office of Women's Studies. 1999.
Walsh DS, Borst MJ (editors): Pocket Mentor. A handbook for surgical residents
produced by the Association of Women Surgeons. 3rd edition, 2001.
Walsh DS, Adzick NS: Fetal disorders and their prenatal management. In:
Rudolph's Pediatrics. 21st edition, 2002.
Walsh DS: CNMC Department of Surgery Resident Handbook. Published for the
Children's Walsh, Danielle. Babies, Blockages, and Bilious Emesis. Presented at
Nemours Children's Clinic's "Pediatrics for the Primary Care Physician" Conference,
Amelia Island, Florida, July 2, 2005, Published at Peds.Education.org
Walsh, Danielle. Pediatric Surgery – Career Development Resource Project.
The Association of Women Surgeons. On line publication October 2008.
Walsh, Danielle. Resident Handbook for Pediatic Surgery. Nemours Children's
Clinic. 4th Edition. December 2010. Walsh DS, Tepas J: Vascular Trauma.
In: Pediatric Surgery. 7th edition, anticipated publication 2011.
Research Experience
University of South Florida College of Medicine – Tampa, Florida
Cytokine Production in Acute Pancreatitis. Mentor: James Norman, M.D.
August - September 1994
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. Mentors: N. Scott Adzick, M.D.,
Alan Flake, M.D., Timothy Crombleholme, M.D. and Daniel von Allmen, M.D.
July 1998 - June 2000
Nemours Children's Clinic – Jacksonville, FL
Dynamic Contrast MRI in Thyroid Nodules – Co-Investigator.
July 2009 – June 2011
Grant Funding
"Endoscopic Technique for Tracheal Occlusion in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia"
Principle Investigator. Association of Women Surgeons and Ethicon
Endosurgery, 1998. $25,000
"The Role of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Fetal Tissue Engineering"
Co-Investigator. The Center for Innovative Minimally Invasive Therapy at
Harvard University, 1999. $200,000
"Surgical Creation and In Utero Repair of Myelomeningocle" - Research Fellow.
The March of Dimes, 2000. $94,314
"Dynamic Conrast Medium- Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in
Preoperative Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer in Children and Adolescents."
Co- Investigator. Nemours Children's Clinic, 2009. $56,127
