Neuroethics Program of the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute, in conjunction with the Brain Sciences Institute The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences (PEBS), founded in July 2003, represents the first formal collaboration between the Brain Sciences Institute and the Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute, both at Johns Hopkins University. The goal of this program is to ensure that research in brain science proceeds with an informed and sophisticated understanding of attendant ethical and social issues, and that philosophical and empirical analysis of the advances in brain research proceeds with an informed and sophisticated understanding of the science. Currently, the Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences is focusing on three concepts that are critical to understanding the moral dimensions of scientific advances in the clinical management of disease and injury to the brain—personal identity, moral responsibility and free will, and the meaning of the neural basis of morality. The Program has recently received funding to bring together the best minds in neurology and philosophy to discuss the first of these concepts, that of personal identity. This exchange will result in an edited volume that will bring together various philosophical theories of personality with clinical insight into the feasibility of these theories. The Program in Ethics and Brain Sciences is an interdisciplinary endeavor, both in subject and in membership. During the regularly scheduled faculty meetings, the discussion ranges from moral philosophy to novel therapeutic approaches to disease and from public policy to basic science. Program in Ethics and Brain Science Faculty and Staff
(as of December14, 2004) Program Co-Directors | | Hilary Bok, Ph.D. | Henry R. Luce Professor of Bioethics and Moral and Political Theory, Department of Philosophy; Core Faculty, Berman Bioethics Institute | Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H. | Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry; Core Faculty, Berman Bioethics Institute | Assistant Director for Science Programs | Debra Mathews, Ph.D., M.A. | Berman Bioethics Institute | Program Coordinator | | Alan Regenberg, M.Be. | Berman Bioethics Institute | Program Faculty | | Marilyn Albert, Ph.D. | Professor, Neurology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Director, Division of Cognitive Neurosciences | David M. Blass, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Faculty Affiliate, Berman Bioethics Institute | Ted M. Dawson, M.D. Ph.D. | Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience | J. Raymond DePaulo, M.D. | Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Director and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics; Professor, Health Policy & Management; Executive Director, Berman Bioethics Institute | John Freeman, M.D. | Professor, Neurology and Pediatrics; Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Center; Core Faculty, Berman Bioethics Institute | Michela Gallagher, Ph.D. | Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience; Chair, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences; | Gail Geller, Sc.D. | Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Health Policy & Management; Core Faculty, Berman Bioethics Institute | John W. Griffin, M.D. | Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Pathology; Director and Neurologist-in-Chief, Department of Neurology. | Kay Jamison, Ph.D. | Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Richard Johnson, M.D. | Professor, Neurology, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and Neuroscience | Steven Knapp, Ph.D. | Provost; Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs | Susan McDermott, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Neurology | Paul McHugh, M.D. | Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry; Chair Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Mental Hygiene | Guy M. McKhann, M.D. | Professor, Neurology; Professor, Neuroscience, Director Zanvyl Krieger Mind-Brain Institute | Christopher A. Ross, M.D, Ph.D. | Professor, Psychiatry; Professor, Neurology; Professor, Neuroscience; Director, Division of Neurobiology, | Andrew Siegel, J.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Assistant Scientist, Health Policy and Management; Core Faculty, Berman Bioethics Institute | Maura Tumulty, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Philosophy | Michael Williams, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery; Core Faculty, Berman Bioethics Institute | Research Staff | | Patrick Duggan, A.B. | Research Assistant, Berman Bioethics Institute | Affiliate Faculty | | Solomon Snyder, M.D., D.Sc., D.Phil. | Professor, Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences; Director, Department of Neuroscience | Meredith Williams, Ph.D. | Professor, Philosophy |
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