Director, Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD, HEC-C, FCCM
Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Mary Faith Marshall is the Director of the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics and Director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She is Professor of Public Health Sciences in the School of Medicine, and Professor in the Department of Acute and Specialty Care in the School of Nursing. She co-chairs the UVA Health System Ethics Committee, directs its Ethics Consult Service, and serves on its Moral Distress Consult Service. Her expertise includes reproductive, clinical and research ethics, and moral distress.
She is past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) and the American Association for Bioethics. She served on the ASBH Health Care Ethics Certification Task Force from 2016-2017 and is a member of the inaugural class of Health Care Ethics Consultants to be certified by the ASBH (2019). She is an elected fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine where she is immediate past chair of the SCCM Ethics Committee. She currently co-chairs the SCCM panel that is writing new end-of-life guidelines. In 2017, 2019, and 2022 she received SCCM Presidential Citations for Outstanding Contributions to the Society of Critical Care Medicine.