Anessa Foxwell, PhD, MBE, is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, supported by Dr. Connie Ulrich’s grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She studies clinician distress in caring for hospitalized patients with serious illness.
Foxwell is an instructor at Penn Nursing, where she teaches palliative care and bioethics. She also works part-time in the Perelman Oncology Evaluation Center. Previously, she served as a nurse practitioner with the Inpatient Palliative Care Service at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, providing inpatient consultation for patients with serious illness.
Foxwell was named one of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation Emerging Leaders in 2022 and was honored as a Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing by the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) in 2023. Her current research focuses on clinician distress and well-being. She has published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, Nursing Ethics, JAMA Network Open, and The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing. Foxwell received her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), with a minor in palliative care, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. She earned her PhD and Master of Bioethics (MBE) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 2024.