Renee' Watson,
MD
Physician
Smithfield, NC
Renee' Watson, MD is a dedicated and skilled physician with over 25 years of exemplary service in the medical field, ranging from pediatric to geriatric. She is a founding physician at Johnston Family Medicine in Smithfield, North Carolina.
Dr. Watson was raised on a small farm in eastern North Carolina, where she developed the strong work ethic, integrity, and compassion that guide her medical career. Inspired early on by a family physician who cared for four generations of her own family, Dr. Watson is committed to delivering comprehensive, relationship-centered care.
Dr. Watson says that not only the dedication , but also the scope of which family medicine encompasses, is appealing to her: "Only in family medicine have I been able to comfort a sixty-three year old cancer patient in the morning, and on that same afternoon experienced the exhilaration of delivering a healthy newborn."
She values treating not only diseases, but rather the person. From the emergency department, to the nursing home, to the personal relationships the physician develops with patients and their families, family medicine offers Dr. Watson the opportunity to integrate her idea of what a physician should be with her personal values of compassion, hard work, and commitment.
Dr. Watson became a CCPN Dyad team member in 2022.
Dr. Watson became a CCPN Board of Manager in January 2026.