University of Tasmania, Australia

Professorial Fellow

General Responsibilities

Professor Walters graduated in Natural Science and Medicine from Oxford University in 1975 with First Class Honours. He did postgraduate medical training and research in the UK, obtaining FRCP and DM. He was a post doc fellow at CVRI, University of California San Francisco with Fulbright Senior Scholarship. Professor Walters came to Australia in 1992 as Foundation Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Monash University and Director of Respiratory Medicine at the Alfred Hospital. In 2001 he moved to Hobart as Professor of Medicine and Clinical Chief of Medicine at the Royal Hobart Hospital.

Publications

• Soltani Abhari, A., Muller, H. K., Sohal, S. S., Reid, D. W., Weston, S., Wood-Baker, R., & Walters, E.H. (In press). The distinctive characteristics of bronchial reticular basement membrane and vessel remodelling in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) versus asthma: they are not the same disease. Histopathology.
• Bereznicki, B., Peterson, G., Jackson, S., Walters, E. H., DeBoos, I., & Hintz, P. (2011). Perceived feasibility of a community pharmacy-based asthma intervention: a qualitative follow-up study. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 36(3), 348-355.
• Bereznicki, B., Peterson, G., Jackson, S., Walters, E. H., & Gee, P. (2011). The sustainability of a community pharmacy intervention to improve the quality use of asthma medication. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 36(2), 144-151.
• Burgess, J. A., Matheson, M. C., Gurrin, L. C., Byrnes, G. B., Adams, K. S., Wharton, C. L., Giles, G. G., Jenkins, M. A., Hopper, J. L., Abramson, M. J., Walters, E. H., & Dharmage, S. C. (2011). Factors influencing asthma remission: a longitudinal study from childhood to middle age. Thorax, 66(6), 508-513.
• Cochrane, B., Quinn, S., Walters, H., & Young, I. (2011). Investigating the adverse respiratory effects of beta-blocker treatment: six years of prospective longitudinal data in a cohort with cardiac disease. Internal Medicine Journal.

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Additional Information

Research Interests

With Professor Richard Wood-Baker and Associate Profesor David Reid, Professor Walters established the Respiratory Research Group as part of the re-engineering of research efforts within the School of Medicine between 2001 and 2006, when Professor Walters was a leader of that initiative as Associate Dean for Research.

He is Co-Director of the CRE for Chronic Respiratory Disease, and in 2012 will take up an NHMRC senior practitioner fellowship. He is also Mercy Professor of the University of Notre Dame; a Professorial Fellow in Population Health at University of Melbourne; and an Adjunct Professor in Epidemiology at Monash University.