Dr. Mary Lucille Walsh grew up in Ocean, New Jersey. She graduated from North Carolina State University in 2013 with a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science. She also completed veterinary school in 2017 at North Carolina State University. She moved back to New Jersey to complete a small animal rotating internship at Red Bank Veterinary Hospital in 2018. She moved to College Station later that year to start a specialty internship at Texas A&M University and went on to complete her residency in Comparative Ophthalmology in July 2022.