Beatrice Yorker is a Professor of Nursing and Criminal Justice & Criminalistics at California State University, Los Angeles. Professor Yorker earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Indiana University, a Master’s in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, and a Juris Doctor from Georgia State University. From 2005 to 2015,Professor Yorker served as Dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Cal State LA, following four years as the Director of the School of Nursing at San Francisco State University. Prior to that, Professor Yorker held several roles at Georgia State University, including Professor of Nursing, Department Chair of Psychiatric Nursing and Associate Provost. Her clinical career includes work in child-psychiatric nursing, forensic nursing and as an expert witness in criminal, family and civil cases. Professor Yorker’s research focuses on Munchausen by Proxy (MBP), a form of child abuse, and serial murder by nurses and other healthcare professionals. She published a law review article on covert video surveillance of MBP and was Co-Editor of The APSAC Advisor2018 the me issue on MBP that included APSAC’s Guidelines for Practice—a consensus document from the APSAC Munchausen by Proxy Task Force. Professor Yorker is a past board member of APSAC and currently serves on the Munchausen by Proxy Committee. She continues to teach psychiatric nursing and frequently offers training in MBP and Medical Child Abuse.