ProfessorDavid Watters
Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Surgery
Faculty of Health/School of Medicine
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- Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in SurgeryFaculty of Health/School of Medicine
- 03 4215 2001 (Work)
- Barwon Health, 272-322 Ryrie Street, Geelong Victoria 3220
TEACHING EXPERTISE
* HM301 Surgery Working Group Convenor
* Assessment and Curriculum development in Surgery
* Teaching General Surgery in wards, operating theaters and surgical outpatients in addition to surgical tutorials.
* He has taught ATLS (EMST), DSTC, Care of the Critically Ill courses to surgeons and surgical trainees and run surgical audit workshops around rural and regional Australia (2000-2010)
* He is one of the founding faculty of the Management of Surgical Emergencies Course (MOSES), designed to teach advanced trainees clinical decision making skills in emergency general surgery. (Since 2011)
* A founding faculty membership of the RACS "Surgeons as Everyday Leaders Course" and the "Clinical Decision Making Course"
* Assessment and Curriculum development in Surgery
* Teaching General Surgery in wards, operating theaters and surgical outpatients in addition to surgical tutorials.
* He has taught ATLS (EMST), DSTC, Care of the Critically Ill courses to surgeons and surgical trainees and run surgical audit workshops around rural and regional Australia (2000-2010)
* He is one of the founding faculty of the Management of Surgical Emergencies Course (MOSES), designed to teach advanced trainees clinical decision making skills in emergency general surgery. (Since 2011)
* A founding faculty membership of the RACS "Surgeons as Everyday Leaders Course" and the "Clinical Decision Making Course"
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISIONAcute Colonic Pseudo-obstruction
- CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISIONSurveillance colonoscopies for colonic polyps at Barwon Health: are we following the national guidelines?
- CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISIONPreoperative Localisation of Parathyroid Adenomas: An Updated Comparison of Diagnostic Modalities
- CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISIONIs socioeconomic status associated with postoperative outcomes after colorectal surgery?
- CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISIONIs CT-Defined Psoas Sarcopenia a Predictor of Outcome Following Emergency Laparotomy in Older Adults?
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONToxic epidermal necrolysis: Factors associated with mortality in adult Victorian burns-centre treated patients
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLynch Syndrome: Natural History and Colonoscopic Surveillance
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLearning and Teaching Clinical Decision-making in Surgery
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe effect of bowel preparation for colonoscopy on depression symptomatology and gut microbiota composition
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONAlcohol-related facial injury
- COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISIONOutcomes of transanal total mesorectal excision in Australasia
- COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISIONOptimising Sarcopenia Measurement to Improve Surgical Risk Assessment
- COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISIONThe Impact of COVID-19 on General Surgery in Geelong