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Dr. Cynda Hylton Rushton, an international leader in bioethics and nursing, is the Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee and Consultation Service. The recipient of many awards, she received the Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Distinguished Career Award and the Distinguished Researcher award from American Association of Critical Care Nurses. 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 presents the 2025 Conversations About Ethics with the topic of "Transforming moral suffering in healthcare by cultivating moral resilience," which helps to create a definition of moral resilience for clinical practice and create a dialogue on practical strategies for cultivating moral resilience.

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 • 12:00 - 3:30 p.m. CDT

Academic Learning & Teaching Center (ALTC) at UT Health San Antonio,

7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio

Free and Open to All

Visit https://www.texashumanities.org/lecture/ for more information.

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