Erin E. Watson appointed medical director of Middletown Emergency Department

Erin Elizabeth Watson, M.D., FACEP, has been appointed medical director of the freestanding Middletown Emergency Department.

Dr. Watson received the Christiana Care Nurse-Physician Partner Award in 2013. She has been an Emergency Medicine attending physician at Christiana Care since 2012.

She graduated from Christiana Care’s dual Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine Residency program in 2010. She received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College) at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, and her undergraduate degree in biological sciences from the University of Delaware. She was a nationally registered emergency medical technician from 1997 to 2002.

Dr. Watson is a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College and a member of Christiana Care’s ED Residency Clinical Competency Committee.

She has given 11 presentations at Christiana Care on a broad range of medical and emergency medicine topics and has published four peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Watson is a 4th degree black belt and master instructor in the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do.