Professor Katie Watson is a lawyer (NYU 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 (the professional organization of independent abortion clinics) and on the National Medical Council of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.