Leah McClimans is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of South Carolina and co-Director of the Ann Johnson Institute for Science, Technology & Society. Her research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of medicine and medical ethics. She has authored numerous articles on measurement in quality of life research and clinical ethics. From 2017-2019 she held a Marie Curie ASSISID fellowship at the University College Cork. 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. In 2015 she was named a Distinguished Faculty Member in the College of Arts and Sciences at University of South Carolina. She is currently working on a book length manuscript, Patient-Centered Measurement.