Dr. Christine M. Walsh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco and has been doing neuroscience-based research for the past 20 years.

Christine received her bachelor’s degree in human physiology at Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland. Christine received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan and did her postdoctoral research in the Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco. There, Christine established a program of sleep research in healthy older adults and individuals with neurodegenerative disease. Christine has taught classes and given lectures at the University of Michigan and San Francisco State University on a variety of neuroscience-based topics, and has given dozens of scientific and community based lectures on her research. Further, during graduate school, Christine took part in an annual reverse science fair called Brains Rule, teaching middle school students about how the brain works. Over the years Christine has mentored numerous individuals who are now successful doctors, nurses, psychologists and researchers (both in academia and industry).

Christine is highly committed to mentoring and developing the next generation of the neuroscience researchers, psychologists and neurologists.