Kathryn Watson, Esq. is Senior Counsel at Nixon Gwilt Law and an Adjunct Faculty with the MedStar Health Institute for Quality and Safety in collaboration with Georgetown University. Prior to joining Nixon Gwilt Law, Katie was counsel to two safety-net hospitals, overseeing the compliance of operations and working to assure health care initiatives were successfully serving the community.
Doctors at Massachusetts community health centers have been advised not to authorize any of their more than 638,000 patients to obtain marijuana for medical purposes because the centers fear they would lose their federal funding.