Research interests

Professor Coats is a former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and his major area of research is cardiology. He has publications in excess of 800 in various medical journals.

His main research interests are clinical integrated pathophysiological and treatment studies of heart failure; the clinical pathophysiology of familial and non-familial cardiomyopathies; the epidemiology of hypertension; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; the development, assessment and management of hypertensive heart disease; integrated human cardiovascular physiology, and research policy and governance.