Wendy Walters has been in direct clinical practice for over 30 years, with the bulk of that experience in end-of-life care. She spent the first 17 years of her career in hospice work, ultimately returning to UAB in 2006. She joined the UAB Hospital Ethics Committee in 2009 and began taking ethics consults for the hospital, returning to graduate school at Albany Medical School’s Alden March Bioethics Institute for advanced training in clinical ethics. Wendy has developed a number of different programs for UAB, including a bereavement program, beginning a local chapter of Schwartz Rounds, developing the Psychosocial and Spiritual Grand Rounds as well as Ethics Case Conferences. Wendy has been in a full-time ethics consultant role since 2016.
