Prof. Gerald Watts

Prof. Gerald Watts      

 DSc, MB, BS, PhD, DM, FRCP, FRACP, Royal Perth

Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

 

 

Gerald F. Watts is a senior consultant physician, university professor and chair of The Familial Hypercholesterolaemia-Australasia Network. He trained at Imperial and King’s Colleges in the University of London before moving to Australia. He is currently director of the Metabolic Research Centre, Cardiometabolic Services (Department of Cardiology), Head of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology Unit (University of Western Australia) and Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine at the Royal Perth Hospital campus. Research interests include lipid disorders, obesity and cardiovascular prevention, and clinical interest focuses on delivering improved health care for FH and related conditions. Professor Watts is actively involved in teaching and supervisors several MD and PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. He has authored over 500 published works and is on the editorial board of Atherosclerosis, Clinical Science, Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Lipidology, and Current Opinion in Lipidology.