Dr. Gerald Watts, MD

Professor Gerald F. Watts is an internal medicine doctor and lipid specialist based in Perth, Western Australia. He is Winthrop Professor of Cardio-metabolic and Internal Medicine at the University of Western Australia and a Senior Consultant Physician at Royal Perth Hospital, where he leads the Cardio-metabolic Service in the Departments of Cardiology and Internal Medicine (https://esc365.escardio.org/person/173683 ; https://rph.health.wa.gov.au/News/2022/08/19/Congratulations-to-Professor-Gerald-Watts).

His main focus is cholesterol and fat disorders in the blood (dyslipidaemia), especially familial hypercholesterolaemia — an inherited condition that raises cholesterol from birth — and the prevention of heart disease (https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/gerald-watts/). An older university page lists him as Director and Head of the Metabolic Research Centre and Lipid Disorders Clinic at Royal Perth Hospital (http://www.researchweek.uwa.edu.au/speakers/gerald-watts/).

He trained in the United Kingdom, at Imperial and King's Colleges of London University, and was a scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford. His listed post-nominals include DSc, DM, PhD, FRCP, FRACP and FCSANZ (https://esc365.escardio.org/person/173683). He has said his research began more than 35 years ago when he was a Senior Registrar at a London teaching hospital (https://rph.health.wa.gov.au/News/2022/08/19/Congratulations-to-Professor-Gerald-Watts).

He is active in research and guideline work. He is first author of the International Atherosclerosis Society roadmap for familial hypercholesterolaemia (Global Heart, 2024), chairs the Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Australasia Network, and his Google Scholar profile lists more than 117,000 citations (https://www.radcliffecardiology.com/authors/gerald-watts ; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4--FbJAAAAAJ). He also teaches medical students and supervises PhD students and post-doctoral researchers (http://www.researchweek.uwa.edu.au/speakers/gerald-watts/).