Katie L Watson

Associate Professor, Medical Social Sciences
Associate Professor, Medical Education
Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Phone312/503-1675
Emailk-watson@northwestern.edu

211 Citations

Research output per year

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Personal profile

Research Interests

Professor Katie Watson is a lawyer (New York U School of Law) who clerked in the federal judiciary and practiced public interest law before coming to Northwestern, and a bioethicist who completed fellowships in clinical medical ethics (University of Chicago Medical School MacLean Center) and medical humanities (Feinberg School of Medicine). She currently teaches law, ethics, and humanities to medical students and students in the NU masters program in bioethics and medical humanities. She has been a member of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Ethics Committee for over a decade, she recently finished a term on the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities (ASBH), and she is a member of the Editorial Board of the AMA Journal of Ethics. Professor Watson is currently serving terms on the Board of the National Abortion Federation (NAF, the professional organization of independent abortion clinics) and on the National Medical Council of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In 2018 Watson published "Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Ordinary Abortion (Oxford University Press) which the New York Times called "revolutionary." Professor Watson also has a background in theater. She is a playwright and an adjunct faculty member at the training center of Chicago's Second City theatre. In 2002 she created a seminar in what she calls “medical improv” to improve doctor-patient communication, and in response to national recognition of her new training approach, in 2013 she began leading a yearly Train-the-Trainer workshop. She is the recipient of the medical school's Gender Equity Award, Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, and Joost Award for Large Group lecturing.

Training Experience

1999	Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago
2001	Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Education/Academic qualification

JD, New York University

… → 1992

Research interests

Medico-legal
Patient Communications
Performing Arts Medicine
Undergraduate Medical Education
Women's Health / Women's Reproductive Health

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Grants

1 Active

Reproductive Ethics Scholarship

Watson, K. L.

Anonymous Foundation (X)

6/1/18 → 5/31/21

Project: Research project

Research Output

211 Citations
10 Article
4 Review article
3 Comment/debate
2 Editorial
3 More
- 2 Letter
- 1 Book

Abortion as a moral good

Watson, K. L., Mar 23 2019, In : The Lancet. 393, 10177, p. 1196-1197 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

1 Scopus citations

Documenting moral agency: a qualitative analysis of abortion decision making for fetal indications

Gawron, L. M. & Watson, K., Feb 1 2017, In : Contraception. 95, 2, p. 175-180 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

5 Scopus citations