ProfessorDavid Watters

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Surgery

Faculty of Health/School of Medicine

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Surgery
    Faculty of Health/School of Medicine
  • 03 4215 2001 (Work)
  • Barwon Health, 272-322 Ryrie Street, Geelong Victoria 3220

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* Clinical Governance, Quality of Health Care, Surgical Audit, Surgical outcomes, Clinical Quality Registries, Health IT, Health system strengthening, Performance Monitoring and Assessment, Surgical Education,
* International Health
* Clinical: Colorectal surgery, Endocrine surgery, Emergency Surgery
* Surgical History, particularly the History of Surgery in Papua New Guinea, including an 800 page book, Stitches in Time Two centuries of surgery in Papua New Guinea (2011), ANZAC surgeons of Gallipoli, and the role of women in Surgery throughout two millenia [Gave Guthrie Lecture on topic in 2017].
* Emergency Laparotomy
* B12 and dementia
* Long Covid
* Microbiome and health/microbiome and colorectal outcomes

* Professor Watters was an author of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (2015) and is a leading figure in International Health, particularly with regard to surgery as practiced in the tropics. He has experience in Zambia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Islands and East Timor. He also acts as an external examiner to the Fiji School of Medicine, and regularly teaches and examines in PNG.

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    The prevention of alcohol related facial injury
    18 Dec 2017 - 31 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Watters D,
    • Lee K
    Australian and New Zealand Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons - $2,545.96