Taylor Watterson
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy
Biography
Taylor Watterson, assistant professor, Retzky College of Pharmacy. (Photo: Jenny Fontaine/UIC)
Taylor Watterson is an assistant professor of pharmacy systems, outcomes and policy in the UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy. She directs the Systems-based Collaborative Research for Patient Safety Lab, focused on health services research to improve patient safety.
Watterson’s innovative research spans high-quality patient care, medication safety, health information technology, workforce utilization and the well-being of pharmacy students and community pharmacists, including occupational fatigue.
She is also an affiliate at the UIC Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research and a member of the UIC Institute for Equitable Health Data Science Research. In addition, she is a Public Voices fellow of the The OpEd Project. Earlier in her career, Watterson was a practicing pharmacist at an independent community pharmacy.
