Dr. Martha Jurchak is the Director of the Ethics Service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is an ethics consultant at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and South Shore Hospital. She has taught ethics at the MGH Institute for Health Professions, Mass College of Pharmacy and Allied Health, Boston College, and Tufts University School of Medicine and the Division of Medical Ethics at the Harvard Medical School, where she also holds a faculty position as instructor.
Her clinical background is in medical-surgical nursing and psychiatric nursing. She has held clinical positions as a staff nurse, nurse in charge, and clinical specialist as well as having had a private practice in psychotherapy.
Dr. Jurchak holds a BSN from Penn State University, MS in psychiatric nursing from Boston University, and a PhD in nursing from Boston College. Her dissertation research involved development of a survey tool which was used in a national survey on the practice of ethics consultation, the results of which were published in the Journal of Clinical Ethics and Thomasma and. Monagle’s book Health Care Ethics: Critical Issues for the 21st Century. She has also published in the American Journal of Nursing and Nursing Clinics of North America. Her research interests include clinical ethics consultation, organizational ethics, and medical futility.
Send Feedback to: 
