Hugh Christian Watkins

Hugh Christian Watkins (born 7 June 1959) is a British cardiologist. He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, an associate editor of Circulation Research, and was Field Marshal Alexander Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in the University of Oxford between 1996 and 2013.

Early life and education The son of Dr David Watkins, a Norfolk physician, and his wife Gillian Mary, Watkins was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk and the St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, graduating in 1983 with both Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degrees. In 1984 he gained the Brackenbury & Bourne Prize in General Medicine. He was awarded a PhD from the University of London in 1995.

Watkins was elected to Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1987, graduated MD and PhD from the University of London in 1995, and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1997.

Honours and awards British Heart Foundation Clinical Scientist Fellow, 1990

Publications Clinical Implications of Beta Cardiac Myosin Heavy Chain Mutations in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (University of London, 1996) Papers in scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, and Nature Genetics

Personal life In 1987, Watkins married Elizabeth Bridget Hewett, and they have one son and one daughter. In Who's Who his recreations are stated as "photography and Oriental porcelain".