Dr. Watt earned his master of science degree in biotechnology from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.He earned his medical doctorate from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Watt completed a fellowship in biochemistry at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research inWashington, DC. He was a research scholar in radiation oncology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed an internship and residency in general surgery at TheUniversity of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, where he also went on to complete a fellowship in surgical critical care and acute care surgery. He has also served as a United States Army Reserve Officer for many years. Dr. Watt has published a number of articles in medical journals and has presented several posters on his research.