Gretchen Watson

Dr. Gretchen LeFever Watson is a licensed clinical psychologist whose research and intervention projects have received scholarly and media attention. She has served as a professor of pediatrics, psychiatry, behavioral sciences, and education at universities and medical schools in the U.S. and abroad and as director of patient safety at a large healthcare system. She has studied the epidemiology of psychotropic drug use in children and non-drug alternatives. She is an academic affiliate at the University of South Carolina and a member of the Southern Network on Adverse Reactions (SONAR), a national post-marketing drug surveillance initiative.