Eugene Haydn Walters, MA, DM, DSc, FRCP, FRACP, FCCP, FTSANZ

Prof. Haydn Walters graduated with First Class honours in Physiological Sciences and Medicine from Oxford University in 1975, and did postgraduate medical training in a number of centres in England. He undertook doctoral research training with the UK MRC at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in Cardiff under John Cotes, and then a post-doc fellowship at University of California SF CVRI under Jay Nadel as a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Radcliffe Travelling Fellow from Oxford University, in 1982-3.

His first senior appointment in 1985 was as Senior Lecturer/Physician at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University Hospitals, before coming to Australia as Foundation Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne in 1992. In 2001, he took up the Chair of Medicine at the University of Tasmania and became Chief of Medicine at Royal Hobart Hospital.

Prof. Walters has had a long career in medical research, extending from clinical to basic laboratory domains, and more recently a main focus on epidemiology. Almost all of this effort has been in respiratory diseases, but including in asthma, COPD, IPF, CF, airway infection and chronic rejection following lung transplantation. He has published almost 500 papers, with a H index of 65.

Professor Walters is a Fellow of the TSANZ by election, as well as having clinical Fellowships in General and Respiratory Medicine by examination. He currently holds professorial appointments at both University of Tasmania (Emeritus) and Melbourne (Hon Professorial Fellow in Epidemiology). He has been awarded the Research Medal for exceptional research contributions by the TSANZ and University of Tasmania. He has higher doctorates in Medicine and Science, and has supervised more than 40 research students to successful thesis completion.

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Terms of Appointment: June 2020 - May 2022