Beth Epstein Email & Phone Number

Beth Epstein received her BS in biochemistry from the University of Rochester, and her MS in Pharmacology, BSN, and PhD in nursing from the University of Virginia. She worked in maternal-child health and neonatal intensive care for 10 years before joining the UVA School of Nursing faculty in 2007 and is a core faculty member of the UVA School of Medicine’s Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities. She currently serves as Chair of the Acute and Specialty Care Department, is an active member of the UVA Health System’s Ethics Consult Service, and directs the health system’s Moral Distress Consult Service. Beth is active in research of ethical issues in acute and critical care settings and also studies parent engagement in the neonatal intensive care unit. She teaches ethics and pharmacology at the graduate and undergraduate levels, is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and became a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2017.