Janice Walshe obtained her medical degree from National University of Ireland - Galway (NUIG) in 1997, she completed her initial oncology training in the Mater Misericordiae hospital while gaining her Masters in Molecular Medicine at Trinity College, Dublin.In 2003, she began her Fellowship in Medical Oncology at the NCI based in Bethesda, Maryland, where she was actively involved in clinical breast cancer research. In 2006, she returned to Ireland having been initially appointed to the Adelaide and Meath hospital and later St Vincent's University Hospital.