Ann B. Hamric, PhD, RN, FAAN

Dr. Hamric is a retired Professor and formerly the Associate Dean for Academic Programs at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing in Richmond, Virginia. She earned degrees from Vanderbilt University (BSN), the University of California at San Francisco (MS), and the University of Maryland at Baltimore (PhD in nursing with a concentration in ethics).

Her two areas of scholarship include advanced practice nursing and ethics. She has served as senior editor of seven books, including five on advanced practice nursing and two on the clinical nurse specialist role.

In the area of ethics, Dr. Hamric has served on five interdisciplinary ethics committees beginning in 1975 and currently is a member of VCU Health System’s Ethics Committee. She has developed and taught ethics courses at undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. She has worked with interprofessional teams to develop courses and study research ethics. Since 2000, her writing and research have focused on the phenomenon of moral distress, including the first quantitative study of moral distress in physicians (Hamric & Blackhall, CCM, 2007). In 2017, she was awarded the "Ethics of Caring National Leadership Award" by the National Nursing Ethics Conference. She currently serves as the co-Chair of the Bioethics Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing.