Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
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Physician Investigator (Cl)
Mass General Research Institute
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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.