Anne-Marie Barron

PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC

Associate Dean, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Simmons College. Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist (part-time) Inpatient Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital . Dr. Barron is Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Simmons College. She received her B.S. in nursing from Boston College, her M.S. in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her PhD from Boston College. Anne-Marie has taught across the undergraduate curriculum in a number of courses, most notably, Psychiatric Nursing and Caring at the End of Life, a semester-long course based on the ELNEC Curriculum. Dr. Barron’s teaching, practice, and research interests are focused on meaning and illness and the understanding and alleviation of suffering. Her central goals in nursing and health science education are to guide and support students as they develop perspectives and skills that enable them to offer healing presence in the lives of their patients. Anne-Marie currently practices part-time as a Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist on the Inpatient Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital where she also holds an appointment as Faculty Nurse Scientist. Anne-Marie has had the privilege of consulting on nursing education in Bangladesh since 2009 as part of an interprofessional team. The Nursing Program at Simmons College, Massachusetts General Hospital and MGH Center for Global Health, and the A.K. Khan Healthcare Trust in Dhaka, Bangladesh have collaborated on the education of practicing nurses at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The collaboration is part of larger initiative between the Government of Bangladesh and Massachusetts General Hospital to establish the first Bone Marrow Transplant Program within Bangladesh. Anne-Marie has been teaching the ELNEC curriculum since 2004 and is in close communication with leaders at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in planning the offering of the ELNEC Train-the-Trainer Program in Bangladesh.