Jamie Watson, PhD, HEC-C

Jamie Watson, PhD, HEC-C is a clinical ethicist at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics and Associate Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western. And he serves on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). Dr. Watson has extensive experience as a clinical ethics consultant in both adult and pediatric settings, teaching health care staff and students, and translating health information into plain language for a wide range of audiences. His primary scholarship is in expertise studies (especially clinical ethics expertise) and health literacy. In addition to a number of articles on expertise and the profession of clinical ethics, he is the author of A History and Philosophy of Expertise (Bloomsbury 2022), Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury 2021), and Winning Votes by Abusing Reason: Responsible Belief and Political Rhetoric (Lexington 2017). He is co-author of Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well, 3rd Ed. (with Robert Arp and Skyler King, Bloomsbury 2024), The Critical Thinking Toolkit (with Peter Fosl and Galen Foresman, Wiley-Blackwell 2016), What’s Good on TV? Understanding Ethics Through Television (with Robert Arp, Wiley-Blackwell 2011), and Philosophy Demystified (with Robert Arp, McGraw-Hill 2011). He is also co-editor of Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics (with Laura Guidry-Grimes, Springer 2018) and author on the Core Competencies for Healthcare Ethics Consultants published by ASBH.