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

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"

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Acute Colonic Pseudo-obstruction
    Nicholas Johnson - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Surveillance colonoscopies for colonic polyps at Barwon Health: are we following the national guidelines?
    Joyce Lok Gee Ma - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Preoperative Localisation of Parathyroid Adenomas: An Updated Comparison of Diagnostic Modalities
    Roi Yisrael Kagan - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Is socioeconomic status associated with postoperative outcomes after colorectal surgery?
    Traudi Almhofer - School of Medicine
  • CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Is CT-Defined Psoas Sarcopenia a Predictor of Outcome Following Emergency Laparotomy in Older Adults?
    Daniel Garcia - School of Medicine
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Toxic epidermal necrolysis: Factors associated with mortality in adult Victorian burns-centre treated patients
    Patrick David Mahar - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Lynch Syndrome: Natural History and Colonoscopic Surveillance
    Douglas Annesley Stupart - School of Medicine - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Learning and Teaching Clinical Decision-making in Surgery
    Wendy Crebbin - School of Medicine - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The effect of bowel preparation for colonoscopy on depression symptomatology and gut microbiota composition
    Amelia Jane Mcguinness - School of Medicine - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Alcohol-related facial injury
    Kai Lee - School of Medicine - 2019
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Outcomes of transanal total mesorectal excision in Australasia
    Steve Lau - School of Medicine - 2022
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Optimising Sarcopenia Measurement to Improve Surgical Risk Assessment
    Louis Scarrold - School of Medicine - 2022
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    The Impact of COVID-19 on General Surgery in Geelong
    Henry Richard Edward Drysdale - School of Medicine - 2022