Ann Burgess

Ann Burgess, who publishes as Ann C. Wolbert Burgess and was born on 2 October 1936, is an American researcher and psychiatric clinical nurse specialist. Her work has concentrated on victims of trauma and abuse. She holds a master's degree from the University of Maryland and a doctorate from Boston University. She teaches as a professor at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College and is professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Her books include A Killer by Design, a 2021 account of murderers, mindhunters and her own quest to decipher the criminal mind, and Expert Witness, published in 2025, which considers the weight of expert testimony when justice hangs in the balance. She is recorded here as a living nurse-scientist whose clinical specialty is psychiatric nursing.