Cynda Hylton Rushton, an international leader in bioethics and nursing, is the Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics and Nursing at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing. Dr. Rushton holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics and is co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee.  A founding member of the Berman Institute, she co-led the first National Nursing Ethics Summit that produced a Blueprint for 21st Century Nursing Ethics. In 2016, she co-led a national collaborative State of the Science Initiative: Transforming Moral Distress into Moral Resilience in Nursing and co-chaired the American Nurses Association professional issues panel that created A Call to Action: Exploring Moral Resilience Toward a Culture of Ethical Practice. Dr. Rushton is the chief synergy strategist for Maryland’s R³ Resilient Nurses Initiative, a statewide initiative to build resilience and ethical practice in nursing students, faculty and practicing nurses.  She is co-creator of the Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy (MEPRA). She was a member of the National Academies of Medicine, Science and Engineering Committee that produced the report: Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-being. Dr. Rushton is a Hastings Center Fellow, Past-Chair of the Hastings Center Fellows Council, and Trustee Emeritus and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is the editor and author of Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare and co-creator of the Rushton Moral Resilience Scale (RMRS).  She received the Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Distinguished Career Award and the Distinguished Researcher award from American Association of Critical Care Nurses. A prolific author and researcher, her current scholarship focuses on moral suffering of clinicians, moral resilience, and designing a culture of ethical practice.