Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine
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Cynda Hylton Rushton,

Professor in the Johns Hopkins University schools of Nursing and Medicine

Biography

Cynda Hylton Rushton, an internationally recognized expert in bioethics and palliative care, shares her knowledge through clinical practice, teaching, research, consultation, and scholarship. She holds a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins University schools of Nursing and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and is Berman Institute of Bioethics core faculty. She serves as co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Hospital's Ethics Consultation Service and as program director of the Hopkins Children's Center's Harriet Lane Compassionate Care Program. Her scholarship focuses on palliative care, moral distress, and caregiver suffering, and conceptual foundations of integrity, respect, trust, and betrayal. She was named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Executive Fellow (2006-2009), has served on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on increasing rates of organ donation and was a consultant to its project When Children Die. She serves as an international co-director of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health. Her current work centers on the integration of palliative care into the care of children with chronic pediatric diseases and the ethical issues faced by neuromuscular clinicians.

Research Interest

Palliative care, moral distress, and caregiver suffering, and conceptual foundations of integrity, respect, trust, and betrayal

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