Brian Cyr, MSN, RN-BC works at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the Acuity Plus Coordinator in the Patient Care Services department of budget and analytics.  Brian earned his BSN degree from Regis College in MA in 2009, and his MSN with a concentration in Nursing Leadership from Framingham State University, also in MA, in 2018.  His capstone project was an integrative review entitled Strategies and Interventions for Nurse Leaders to Address Moral Distress.  Brian also holds a B.A. in History from Providence College, Rhode Island (2003).  Brian has a long-time interest in ethics, specifically in the areas of advance care planning and advocacy for palliative care.  Brian is an ethics leader at MGH.  He partners with other MGH ethics leaders to integrate the work of multiple ethics committees and departments throughout the organization and demonstrates an organizational commitment to ethical clinical practice.  Brian also serves as a member of the MGH Optimum Care (Ethics) Consult service and committee and is a member of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Leaders’ Group.  He also served as the former advisor to the MGH Patient Care Services Collaborative Governance Ethics in Clinical Practice Committee.  Brian has been a member of the National Nursing Ethics Conference (NNEC) planning committee since 2019 and was a presenter at the 2023 NNEC conference.