Dr. Judy Watt-Watson is a Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Executive Director of their new Centre for Advanced Studies in Professional Practice. She is a member of the UofT Centre for the Study of Pain Executive Committee, a Faculty Associate at University Health Network Hospital, and an Associate Scientific Staff member of Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital. She has served on international, national, and provincial committees related to pain management standards and curricula for health science faculties. She is a member of the IASP Education Initiatives Working Committee and chair of the subgroup developing an interprofessional pain curriculum. She was the inaugural chair of the UofT Centre for the Study of Pain Interfaculty Pain Curriculum involving six Health Science Faculties.

She is the recipient of the Canadian Pain Society Distinguished Career Award as well as their Award for Excellence in Interprofessional Education, the University of Toronto Award of Excellence for Research, Teaching, and Professional Contributions, the Sigma Theta Tau - Lambda Pi Chapter Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Toronto Faculty of Nursing.

Her research has focused on a) establishing pain prevalence and related risk factors, particularly for cardiac surgical patients and b) interventions involving health professionals and patients with funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and The Heart & Stroke Foundation.