Ann Burgess

Dr. Ann C. Wolbert Burgess is an American researcher and Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her work has focused on victims of trauma and abuse. She is author of A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind. She co-founded one of the first hospital-based crisis counseling programs at Boston City Hospital with Boston College sociologist, Lynda Lytle Holmstrom. She also conducted extensive research regarding 1960s rape victims in Boston. She began to consult for John E. Douglas, Robert Ressler, and other FBI agents in the Behavioral Science Unit to develop modern psychological profiling for serial killers. Through interviews and finding patterns among the serial killers, her team was the first to find similar trauma amongserial killers. She was interviewed by the FBI in the Hulu docuseries "Mastermind:To Think Like A Killer", based on her work. She has four young children and knew it would take up time from her family. She currently teaches at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College and Professor Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania School of nursing.