Ita Walsh - European Medicines Agency

Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Ita Walsh
WORK EXPERIENCE
September 2007–Present
Clinical Assessor
Medicine Evaluations Board (MEB), (Netherlands)
Assessment of clincal parts of medicinal product dossiers
April 2001–May 2006
Laboratory Specialist
Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis, (Netherlands)
I shared responsibility for the blood transfusion laboratory and all aspects of laboratory diagnosis in
routine and special haematology including morphological assessment of bone marrow aspirates,
flowcytometry, special coagulation tests and limited diagnostics in thalassemia.
September 1996–March 2001
Training position for the medical specialty of Laboratory Doctor
Sophia Ziekenhuis, Zwolle, (Netherlands)
This was a broad general training, while also working, in all aspects of clinical chemistry and
laboratory haematology and included routine monitoring of patients on oral anticoagulants and also
some months in the clinical paediatric and internal medicine departments
January 1992–August 1996
Three research positions
Leiden University (Netherlands) and also Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf Germany (1993),
(Netherlands)
Studied voltage dependent ionic currents in neurons from the rat hypothalamus
Studied electrophysiological characteristics of endothelium cells.
Studied penetration, in vitro and in vivo, of a protein into the epithelium of the oral mucosa of pigs.
January 1987–December 1991
PhD research position
Leiden University, (Netherlands)
Studied electrophysiological characteristics of cultured neurons from the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus
using the patch-clamp technique.
April 1985–December 1986
Home help
Katholieke Inst.voor Maatschappelijk Werk, Utrecht, (Netherlands)
June 1981–December 1984
Junior hospital doctor
Various Dublin hospitals, (Ireland)
The positions covered adult general medicine and surgery with some paediatric experience.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
September 1975–May 1981
Bachelor of Medicine
Trinity College Dublin, (Ireland)
January 1987–December 1991
PhD Medicine
Leiden University, Faculty of Medicine. , (Netherlands)
Thesis: "Electrophysiology of rat suprachiasmatic neurons in culture".
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Curriculum Vitae
Ita Walsh
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Expertise
Haematology in general, including congenital coagulation factor deficiencies and to some extent
haemato-oncology.
Blood products and related biotech or other products used in bleeding disorders or deficiencies of
plasma proteins.
Hereditary angioedema
Publications
Poodt J., Fijnheer R., Walsh I.B.B., Hermans M.H.A., A sensitive and reliable semi-quantitative realtime PCR assay to detect JAK2 V617F in blood, Hematol. Oncol. 24(4)(2006)227-33.
Walsh I., van Litsenburg E., Cornelissen L., van de Ven W., Janssen S., Pijlman B., Bosscha K., Het
voorkomen van onnodige bloedtransfusies door het volgen van de Groningse 4-5-6 flexinorm.
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Bloedtransfusie Bulletin Oktober (2005)27-32.
Poodt. J, Hagenaars H., Martens H., Bernsen M.J., Walsh I.B.B., Mulder A.B., Felix-Schollaart B., en
Hermans M.H.A., A newly identified deletion at the α-globin locus removing the promoter region of the
α1 gene, Nederlandse Tijdschrift voor Klinische Chemie en Laboratoriumgeneeskunde 30(2005)6162.
Walsh I., van den Berg R.J., Marani E., and Rietveld W.J., Ionic currents in cultured rat
suprachiasmatic neurons, Neuroscience 69(1995)915-929.
Vorobjev, V. S., Sharonova, I. N., Walsh, I. B., and Haas, H. L., Histamine potentiates N-methyl-Daspartate responses in acutely isolated hippocampal neurons, Neuron, 11(1993)837 844.
Walsh I., van den Berg R.J., Marani E., and Rietveld W.J., Spontaneous and stimulated firing in
cultured rat suprachiasmatic neurons, Brain Research 588(1992)120-131.
Walsh I., van den Berg R.J., Marani E., Rietveld W.J., and Boon M.E., Cell typing of cultured
hypothalamic neurons of the suprachiasmatic region: morphology, physiology and
immunocytochemistry, Proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the European Society for
Chronobiology (1990), in Chronobiology and Chronomedicine: basic research and applications, Peter
Lang, Frankfurt am Main.
Walsh I., van den Berg R.J., Marani E., and Rietveld W.J., The suprachiasmatic nucleus of the rat
hypothalamus in culture: An anatomical and electrophysiological study, Eur. J. Morph., 28(1990)317329.
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