Jennifer Bartlett, PhD, MEDSURG-BC, CNE, CHSE

Georgia

Dr. Jennifer L. Bartlett, an Associate Dean and Professor at Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University, has served on the American Nurses Association Ethics Advisory Board (EAB) since 2019.  She chaired their Ethics Education Subcommittee (2019-2023) and led the development of a faculty toolkit with the National League for Nursing. Dr. Bartlett completed a two-year ethics consultation training program at Bon Secours Virginia. She presents on nursing ethics locally, nationally, and internationally and served as a planning committee member for the National Nursing Ethics Conference (NNEC) for almost ten years. Dr. Bartlett served as the lead Co-Chair on the 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses, collaborating with almost 50 thought leaders to revise the Code. Dr. Bartlett is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) with extensive experience in simulation. Dr. Bartlett is also the third author of the 9th/10th/pending 11th editions of the textbook, Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Person-Centered Care.

Marsha Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN, FRSA (London)

Southern California

Marsha Fowler is Professor Emerita in Nursing and Ethics with a focus on the history and development of nursing ethics nationally and internationally, as a foundation to reclaiming and advancing nursing ethics for today’s nurses. She has long served as a clinical ethics consultant. Marsha was a Kennedy Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard University (1978), Kellogg National Leadership Fellow (1992), Fulbright Research Fellow, US/UK (2019), Chair of the ANA Committee on Ethics, and Code Historian and Scholar for ANA Code of Ethics Revisions (2001, 2015).  She has served on the writing subgroup for the ICN Code of Ethics revision (2021), and on successive revisions of the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, serving as co-chair for the 2015 revision.  She has particular interests in social ethics (social criticism, social change, and social policy), identity-grounded ethics, and religious ethics in health care.  Her most recent book, Nursing Ethics, 1800s to the present: An Archeology of Lost Wisdom and Identity (2024, Routledge) received two ANA Book of the Year Awards..

Deborah (Deb) Kenny PhD, DBe, RN, FAAN

Denver, Colorado

Deb Kenny serves as Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045. She received her undergraduate nursing degree from the University of Northern Colorado in 1975; an EdM from Boston University in 1983; MSN from Vanderbilt University in 1986; PhD in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2002; and MA in Bioethics from Loyola University Chicago in 2021; Doctorate in Bioethics from Loyola University in May 2026. Dr. Kenny spent 24 years in the US Army Nurse Corps, holding various positions throughout her career, culminating as the Executive Director of the TriService Nursing Research Program, a $6M grants program for military/veteran nurses to conduct militarily relevant research and evidence-based practice. While there, she got the program permanently funded and out of Congressional earmark status. She received many awards from the military, including the Legion of Merit, and is a member of the Order of Military Medical Merit. Upon her retirement from the military in 2010, Dr. Kenny joined the Johnson Beth-El College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and spent 12.5 years as faculty there. Since June 2022, Dr. Kenny has been an Associate Professor and Division Chair for Health Systems at the College of Nursing for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She considers this campus home as she was stationed at Fitzsimons twice and actually helped close its doors as an Army Medical Center in 1996. In 2008, she was named an Outstanding Alumna from the University of Massachusetts Graduate School. In 2010, she was inducted as a Fellow in the prestigious American Academy of Nursing. Since then, she has earned numerous awards for her research, professional service, and community service.

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Pamela Grace, PhD, MSN, RN, HEC-C, FAAN

Massachusetts

Pamela Grace is an Associate Professor Emerita in Nursing and Ethics at the William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College and volunteers as a clinical ethics consultant at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.  An experienced ICU nurse and former Nurse Practitioner with a PhD in philosophy/medical ethics, she is an internationally recognized expert in nursing and healthcare ethics. She has written and presented extensively on issues of advocacy, professional responsibility and social justice. Her award-winning book – Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice is in its 4^th edition and, along with her former PhD student Aimee Milliken, she recently published the Clinical Ethics Handbook for Nurses (2022) that is international in scope and aimed at helping point-of care nurses with their ethical decision-making. Most recently she served as an expert panel member for the recently published American Nurses Association (ANA) 2025 revision of the Code of Ethics for Nurses.

Elizabeth Peter, PhD, MScN, BA, BScN, MScN, RN, FAAN, FCAN

Toronto

Elizabeth Peter serves as Professor, Professor Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Member Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in Medicine, Collaborative Program in Bioethics; a BA in Philosophy, an MScN and BScN in nursing. Dr. Peter is an associate editor of Nursing Ethics and an ethicist on the Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board. Previously, she served as Chair of the Bioethics Expert Panel for the American Academy of Nursing and as chair of the Health Sciences Research Ethics Board at the University of Toronto and the Ethics Review Board of Public Health Ontario. Her interdisciplinary academic background in nursing, philosophy, and bioethics has framed her scholarship over the past 30 years. Theoretically, she locates her work in feminist ethics which aligns her scholarly pursuits both substantively and methodologically. 

Catherine Robichaux, PhD, RN

Texas

Adjunct faculty, UT Health, San Antonio, TX; University of Mary, Bismarck, N.D.

Catherine Robichaux is Assistant Professor, adjunct, at UT Health in San Antonio, Texas and the University of Mary in Bismarck N.D. where she currently teaches in the ethics and informatics program. Dr. Robichaux has conducted research, presented, and published on moral distress and ethical climate in adult, pediatric, and neonatal intensive care units, quality end-of-life care in rural ICUs, ethical care of individuals with IDD, and other nursing ethics focused topics. As a faculty consultant to University Health System in San Antonio, Dr. Robichaux collaborated with staff nurses to establish a continuing hospital based nursing ethics consortium that received a Magnet innovation award. She also received the AACN Circle of Excellence Award for this work, among other endeavors. Her current efforts continue to focus on nursing ethics education, and feminist/care disability ethics. Dr. Robichaux edited the text, Ethical Competence in Nursing Practice (Springer, 2017) and is the editor of the OJIN ethics column. She is a past member of the ANA Ethics Advisory Board where she developed and chaired the Ethics Education Subcommittee and, as a member of the expert panel, participated in the revisions of the 2015 and 2025 Code of Ethics.

Martha Turner, MS, MA, PhD, RN, FAAN, COL USAF NC (ret)

Michigan

Martha Turner, PhD, RN, FAAN – a native of Minnesota, was Associate Director and then Consultant to the Center for Ethics and Human Rights (CEHR) at the American Nurses Association. She is an adjunct professor at the U of M School of Nursing. As Associate Director of CEHR (2006-2017), she was content editor, revision coordinator, and co-lead writer for the 2015 revision of the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements. From 2018-2021 she represented the US, revising the ICN Code of Ethics.  Most recently, from 2023-2025, Martha participated as Co-Chair of the 2025 Code of Ethics Re’Vision, coordinating the writing efforts of over 40 nurses across the country and editing the final drafts. Last year, she was honored with the 2025 Ethics of Caring National Nursing Ethics Leadership Award. Colonel Turner retired from the Air Force after 30 years active duty. Her responsibilities included: Inpatient and outpatient Staff Nursing, Hospital Education Coordinator, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Nursing, Director of the International Health Program at Uniformed Services University, and Ethics Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General. She provided formal and informal ethics education across the U.S. and abroad. Her educational preparation includes Pre School at St Caterine’s in 1952, and later the University of Minnesota for a BS and PhD, Loma Linda University for an MSN and Ball State University for an MA in Counseling Psychology.

Connie Ulrich, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN

Pennsylvania

Lillian S. Brunner Chair and Professor of Nursing and Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Ulrich is a nurse bioethicist and the Lillian S. Brunner Endowed Chair at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she is a Professor of Nursing and Medical Ethics and Health Policy. She also holds a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. Dr. Ulrich graduated from the University of Maryland with her PhD and a concentration in nursing ethics. She went on to be the first nurse postdoctoral fellow in bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, Department of Bioethics. Dr. Ulrich’s research has focused on the intersection of professional and ethical agency, clinical and research practice, and outcomes of care. Dr. Ulrich’s research and commentaries have been published in medicine, nursing, bioethics, and other professional and lay consumer forums with her work being highlighted in an ethics publication by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethics under President Obama.

Maya Zumstein-Shaha, Dr., MSN, RN, FAAN

Switzerland

Maya Zumstein-Shaha is the Deputy Head of the Master of Science in Nursing program at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. In this position, she teaches philosophy of science classes to graduate nurses. She also runs the Master-Thesis seminar, which is a year-long program to accompany graduate students in the elaboration of their Master’s thesis. As such, she also addresses ethical issues in nursing, in particular in relation to Advanced Practice Nursing. In research, her expertise includes Advanced Practice Nurses and their implementation into various settings in healthcare, nursing theory development and implementation as well as nursing ethics issues such as conscientious objection. In addition, she has contributed to the establishment of an annual symposium for graduate students and program alumni on advanced practice in nursing. She also interacts regularly with practice partners and policy representatives to promote the cause of the Advanced Practice Nurse in the Swiss healthcare system. Prior to her current position, she was elected by the Federal Council to the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics, and has served as a member between 2012 and 2023. During the Covid-19 pandemic, as a member of this commission, she has worked on issues of vaccination, access to care and justice. Between 2021 and 2026, she has served as a member on the Board of the Swiss National Nurses’ Association. Since 2021, she is Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. As such, she has chaired the former Bioethics Expert Panel. She is now the facilitator of the Nursing Ethics Thought Leadership Collaborative as part of the American Academy of Nursing.