Education

M.D. in Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Med, Lubbock, Texas, 2010

Current position

General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (2010 – present)

Publications

1. Finkbeiner, S. R., Hill, D. R., Altheim, C. H., Dedhia, P. H., Taylor, M. J., Tsai, Y. H., Chin, A. M., Mahe, M. M., Watson, C. L., Freeman, J. J., Nattiv, R., Thomson, M., Klein, O. D., Shroyer, N. F., Helmrath, M. A., Teitelbaum, D. H., Dempsey, P. J. and Spence, J. R. (2015). Transcriptome-wide Analysis Reveals Hallmarks of Human Intestine Development and Maturation In Vitro and In Vivo. Stem Cell Reports. [Epub ahead of print]
   
2. Mahe, M. M., Sundaram, N., Watson, C. L., Shroyer, N. F. and Helmrath, M. A. (2015). Establishment of human epithelial enteroids and colonoids from whole tissue and biopsy. J Vis Exp(97).
   
3. Watson, C., King, A., Mitra, S., Shaaban, A. F., Goldstein, A. M., Morowitz, M. J., Warner, B. W., Crombleholme, T. M. and Keswani, S. G. (2015). What does it take to be a successful pediatric surgeon-scientist? J Pediatr Surg 50(6): 1049-1052.
   
4. McGrath, P. S., Watson, C. L., Ingram, C., Helmrath, M. A. and Wells, J. M. (2015). The Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factor NEUROG3 Is Required for Development of the Human Endocrine Pancreas. Diabetes 64(7): 2497-2505.
   
5. Watson, C. L., Mahe, M. M., Munera, J., Howell, J. C., Sundaram, N., Poling, H. M., Schweitzer, J. I., Vallance, J. E., Mayhew, C. N., Sun, Y., Grabowski, G., Finkbeiner, S. R., Spence, J. R., Shroyer, N. F., Wells, J. M. and Helmrath, M. A. (2014). An in vivo model of human small intestine using pluripotent stem cells. Nat Med 20(11): 1310-1314.
   
6. Balaji, S., Watson, C. L., Ranjan, R., King, A., Bollyky, P. L. and Keswani, S. G. (2014). Chemokine Involvement in Fetal and Adult Wound Healing. Advances in Wound Care.