2022 RT Hall Prize winner at CSANZ ASM – Prof Gerald Watts

The 2022 R T Hall Prize is awarded to Prof Gerald Watts.

Professor Watts is the Winthrop Professor of Cardiometabolic and Internal Medicine at the University of Western Australia and Senior Consultant Physician at the Royal Perth Hospital.

Over the course of the last 25 years he has established a globally recognised translational research program in Perth, which has extended his fundamental interest in dyslipidaemia and diabetes to developing world class models in health service delivery. He published the seminal paper outlining the importance of lipid lowering in the regression of angiographic disease in an era prior to the use of more advanced arterial wall imaging. His work has enabled a fundamental understanding of the clinical and pharmacological factors that influence lipoprotein metabolism and he has played a pivotal role in the early development of a number of novel therapies that target cardiometabolic risk. In recent years, he has led national efforts to develop effective, multidisciplinary clinical models of care for familial hypercholesterolaemia and associated research and training initiatives.