Ann Burgess

Ann C. Wolbert Burgess (born October 2, 1936) is an American researcher and psychiatric clinical nurse specialist whose work has focused on victims of trauma and abuse, and is author of A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind (2021) and Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance (2025). She is a professor at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College and Professor Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She received her Master's degree from the University of Maryland and her Doctorate from Boston University. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ann Burgess, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.