Mary Faith Marshall

Mary Faith Marshall is the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia, jointly appointed in the School of Nursing (20%) and School of Medicine (80%). She directs the Clinical Ethics Consult Service and the Program in Bioethics at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities.

Her research examines reproductive ethics, clinical ethics consultation frameworks, and policy approaches to perinatal substance abuse. She specializes in moral distress mitigation in healthcare environments and ethical dimensions of pandemic response planning.

Her recent publications explore moral distress in clinical research, ventilator allocation ethics during COVID-19, and coercive interventions in pregnancy. Her work integrates empirical analysis with normative ethics to address systemic challenges in healthcare.

Awards include the Trailblazer Award from the Charleston NAACP (2000), ELAM Fellowship (2003-2004), and recognition as a Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (1994).

She serves on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Ethics Committee and multiple NIH data safety monitoring boards.