Ray Watts

Ray L. Watts (born c. 1958 in Birmingham) is the President of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Watts earned his bachelor's degree in engineering at UAB in 1976 and then completed his doctorate at the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri in 1980. He completed his residency at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and trained in research at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Watts then served a 2-year fellowship at the National Institutes of Health and joined the faculty of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He participated there in the establishment of a Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Research and Clinical Center.

Watts returned to Birmingham in 2003 as John N. Whitaker professor of neurology and became chief of neurology services for UAB Hospital, where he helped create the UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center. He also served as interim CEO of UAB Health System during most of 2008.

In July 2010, Watts was named senior vice president for medicine and dean of the UAB School of Medicine. The University of Alabama Board of Trustees named him president of the University on February 8, 2013.

References

• "UAB names new medical school dean." (July 29, 2010) Birmingham Business Journal
• Ranaivo, Yann (February 8, 2013) "Ray Watts named new president of UAB." Birmingham Business Journal

External links

• Ray L. Watts at UAB.edu