Associate Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School

Physician Investigator (Cl) Mass General Research Institute

MD Harvard Medical School 1980

eicosanoid biochemistry; hindlimb; ischemia; muscle skeletal; phenanthrenes; poly(adp-ribose) polymerases; reperfusion injury; signal transduction pathways; smooth muscle; vascular cell biology; vascular endothelium Dr. Watkins' clinical interests are in acute spinal cord and limb ischemia-reperfusion injury, vasculogenic impotence and autogenous vein grafting for arterial occlusive disease. He maintains basic science interests in vascular cell biology, eicosanoid biochemistry and signal transduction pathways in vascular endothelium and smooth muscle.