UVA School of Nursing

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Biography

Mary Faith Marshall is a bioethicist (and former critical care nurse) who is jointly appointed in the faculty of the School of Nursing (20%) and the School of Medicine (80%). She is the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Program in Bioethics at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities in the Medical School. She directs the Clinical Ethics Consult Service in the Medical Center, and supervises students and faculty in academic bioethics pursuits.

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow: Hedwig van Ameringen, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine, Program for Women (ELAM), Drexel University (2003-2004)
  • President’s Service Award, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (2000)
  • Trailblazer Award, Charleston Chapter National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Charleston, SC (2000)
  • Fellow , Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (1995)
  • Fellow in Critical Care Medicine (elected), American College of Critical Care Medicine (1994)
  • Paddock Graduate Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1989)
  • Sigma Theta Tau, Beta Kappa Chapter (1983)

Research Focus

Reproductive Ethics, Research Ethics, Clinical Ethics, and Policy Approaches to Perinatal Substance Abuse.

Clinical Focus

Clinical Ethics Consultation and Moral Distress Consultation.

Teaching Focus

Clinical Ethics, Reproductive Ethics, Ethical Issues in Pandemic Planning, Research Ethics across multiple disciplines including advanced practice nursing, medicine, GME, graduate students and bioethics interns.

Service

  • Prevention-Africa DSMB, Division of Aids, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (2013)
  • Member, Expert Panel for the Stem Cell Network (Mid-Term Review Component, Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) Secretariat, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in partnership with Industry Canada and Health Canada, Ottawa, (Ontario) Canada (2011)
  • Chairman, NIH Grant Review Panel, RFA-OD-10-006 , Program to Enhance NIH-supported Global Health Research Involving Human Subjects, Washington, DC (2010)
  • Advisory Board, DNA as Unique Identifier: Privacy, Trust and the Future of Personalized Medicine, The Greenwall Foundation, Program in Professionalism and Bioethics, The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (2009-2010)
  • Committee on Ethics, American College of Gynecologists and Obstetricians, Washington, DC. (2006 - Present)
  • Special Emphasis Panel, Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health, National Library of Medicine/NIH, Bethesda, MD (2006, 2007, 2010)
  • International Data and Safety Monitoring Board, DSMB for Africa , Division of AIDS, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (2005-2012)
  • Consultant, Bioethics Review Committee, (Human Subjects Research, Eurasia), US Civilian Research and Development Foundation, Arlington, VA (2005-2011)