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Alumna and victimology/forensic nursing pioneer presented “Shattering Silence: Clinical Perspectives on Sexual Violence 1970 - 2020”
On Thursday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m., Ann Wolbert Burgess, DNSc, MS ’59, APRN, FAAN, professor of psychiatric nursing, Boston College Connell School of Nursing, kicked off the University of Maryland School of Nursing’s (UMSON) 2020 - 21 Dean’s Lecture series as the featured guest lecturer of The Ann Ottney Cain Lecture in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, presenting “Shattering Silence: Clinical Perspectives on Sexual Violence 1970 - 2020.” The lecture also commemorated the 65th anniversary of UMSON’s psychiatric nursing program, now the Doctor of Nursing Practice Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner – Family specialty, of which Burgess is an alumna.
At this lecture, UMSON paid tribute to Ann Ottney Cain (1934 - 2020), PhD, RN, CSP, FAAN, professor emerita, who was a leader in psychiatric mental health nursing, specifically in family systems therapy. Her tenure at UMSON spanned more than three decades, and upon her retirement in 1994, her colleagues, students, and friends created the Ann Ottney Cain Endowed Lecture in Psychiatric Nursing. Cain passed away in February.