Michael Walsh qualified in Perth in 1964 and after junior posts was RMO at the Sir Charles Gairdner and the Princess Margaret hospitals, where he specialised in ophthalmology. He went to England as a registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle on Tyne, followed by posts in Leeds and Bradford. He returned to Perth as visiting medical officer at the Royal Hospital in 1972 and by 1987 had become director of the ophthalmic department at the Sir Charles Gardner Hospital, and had set up the Claremont Eye Clinic. He died in April 2005 leaving a widow, Ann.