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Douglas P. Olsen, PhD, RN, taught health care ethics and psychiatric nursing at the Yale University for 13 years before joining the Center for Ethics in Heath Care, Veterans Health Administration in 2009. He also chaired a Yale IRB for 10 years. His clinical career includes being the first person licensed as an advanced practice mental health nurse in Alaska where he worked for the Indian Health Service and then the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Corporation, a Native health corporation. His PhD in Nursing is from Boston College; he also has a Master's in psychiatric nursing from the University of Washington, and Bachelor's degrees from Hunter College and the Penn State. He is on the editorial board of Nursing Ethics and a contributing editor for ethics at The American Journal of Nursing. His publications have appeared in a variety of professional journals including Psychiatric Services, Nursing Research, Journal of Clinical Ethics and Advances in Nursing Science. He is a founding member of the International Centre for Nursing Ethics, Guildford, UK. He has lectured on ethics at the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy as a Fulbright Fellow; Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. as Visiting Associate Professor, Tokyo Women's Univ. and Central South Univ., China. His expertise includes research ethics, ethics in mental health care and the ethics of health care relationships.