Stephen Walsh

I am an Ames native who studied pre-med at Iowa State 1956-59. I'm a life member of the ISU Alumni Association. I am announcing my retirement from 52 years of practicing general medicine and psychiatry since graduation from the U of I med school in 1963! After internship at LA County General Hospital I then served two years in the US Navy as a general medical officer in Vietnam and in San Francisco followed by psychiatric residency at Stanford University, completed in 1972. Subsequently I moved back to San Francisco where I have combined solo private practice with volunteer teaching as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Univ of California San Francisco (UCSF) medical school these many years. I have also served as Presidents of the San Francisco Medical Society, of the Northern California Psychiatric Society, and of the Association of the Clinical Faculty at UCSF where I've received several teaching, community service and clinical awards. Along the way I have also published three book chapters and over fifty articles, essays and editorials in various journals. I've enjoyed visiting Ames and Iowa State frequently over these many years and plan to continue that practice. I like to think this Iowa farm boy has done ok in the Big City of San Francisco over this long career in medicine. Greetings to old friends and classmates from Ames and ISU! Dr Steve Walsh