Associate Professor Philosophy and Co-Director of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology, and Soceity

Biography

Leah McClimans is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of South Carolina and Co-Director of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology, and Society. Before coming to the University of South Carolina she held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics (2006-7). She also held an Ethox Research Fellowship (2009-2010) at the University of Warwick Medical School, and was awarded a Marie Curie ASSISTID fellowship to address the ethical and epistemological questions regarding the evidence base for assistive technologies at the University of College Cork (2017-2019). In 2015 she was named a Distinguished Faculty Member in the College of Arts and Sciences at University of South Carolina, and in 2016 she was awarded the Provost’s Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award. She has authored numerous articles on measurement and evidence in medical research, as well as articles in clinical and medical ethics, and is currently working on a book project, “Patient Centered Measurement.”