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Pamela J. Grace, PhD, RNCS is an Assistant Professor at the Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, where she teaches ethics, clinical and moral judgment, and adult health content. She has clinical expertise in critical care, gerontology, and primary health care. Her initial nursing education was undertaken in the United Kingdom where she gained registration in 1972. She received a BSN in 1987 and an MSN in 1990, both from West Virginia University. She gained Adult Nurse Practitioner certification at that time. In 1998 she received a PhD in philosophy with a concentration in medical ethics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her areas of ethics interest include advocacy, issues of professional obligation, and moral decision-making.

Dr. Grace was a Medical Ethics Research Fellow in the Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine for the 2000-2001 academic year. She has been awarded a Fulbright Lecture/Research Scholarship to Denmark for the Spring Semester of 2003.

Dr. Grace is the author of several publications on ethics, advocacy, and nursing philosophy. She has engaged in multiple presentations both nationally and internationally on the above topics.