Elaine Walsh - she,her

Associate Professor
Affiliate Faculty, Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention

Dr. Elaine Walsh is an ANCC Certified Clinical Specialist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. She holds a Master of Nursing degree from UCLA and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on suicide prevention, co-occurring risk behaviors, program evaluation, and translating research interventions into community settings. She has provided mental health and suicide risk assessment, intervention, and training in inpatient, school and community settings. Dr. Walsh has been involved in oversight of a number of federally funded clinical trials addressing adolescent depression, suicide risk and other problem behaviors. Work at Seattle Children’s includes supporting nurses to develop and implement research projects. Dr. Walsh is on the editorial board of two scientific journals, and reviews manuscripts for a number of additional journals. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and is an executive board member of the Lois Price Spratlen Foundation, Seattle Nursing Research Consortium, and the National Pediatric Nurse Scientist Collaborative.