About Me
Katie Watson, JD is Associate Professor of Medical Education and Obstetrics & Gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is an award-winning teacher of bioethics, law, and medical humanities to medical students and graduate students, and a member of the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Ethics Committee. Professor Watson graduated from New York University School of Law, clerked in the federal judiciary, and practiced public interest law before completing Fellowships in Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School’s MacLean Center, and in Medical Humanities at Northwestern. In her role as an ethics professor, Professor Watson has been elected a Board member of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Chair of the Ethics Committee and Board member of the National Abortion Federation, and Bioethics Advisor to and Member of the National Medical Council of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In 2017 Watson reduced her time at Northwestern, and took on a new role at the ACLU of Illinois as Senior Counsel for the Women’s and Reproductive Rights Project. Her book “Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion” will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017.