Judy Illes, PhD – UBC

Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at University of British Columbia Director of the National Core for Neuroethics at UBC

Dr. Illes is a co-Founder and Member of the Governing Board of the International Neuroethics Society. As a pioneer and eminent scholar in the field of Neuroethics, she has made ground-making contributions to ethical, social, and policy challenges at the intersection of biomedical ethics and neuroscience, including advances in stem cells, neuroimaging, neuroscience and the law, and the commercialization of health care.

Web Information

Department webpagehttp://www.ubcneurology.com/Staff

National Core for Neuroethics websitehttp://neuroethics.med.ubc.ca/

National Core for Neuroethics Blog: https://neuroethicscanada.wordpress.com/

Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Illes

Contact Information

Email: jilles@mail.ubc.ca

Phone: (604) 822-0746

Address: 2211 Wesbrook Mall National Core for Neuroethics Koerner S124 Vancouver BC Canada V6T 2B5

Biography

Professional Training

1981: Brandeis University

1983: McGill University

1987: Stanford University

2001: Department of Medical History and Ethics, University of Washington

Academic positions

2008 – present: Adjunct Professor, School of Population and Public Health (University of British Columbia)

2007 – present: Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology (University of British Columbia)

2007 – present: Faculty Associate, Brain Research Centre (University of British Columbia)

2006 – 2007: Associate Professor, ...

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Karen Rommelfanger, PhD – Emory

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology  at Emory University Secondary appointment, Department of Psychiatry Program Director, Emory’s  Neuroethics Program 

Dr. Rommelfanger’s current research explores the nature and utility of placebo using Psychogenic Movement Disorders as a therapeutic model. She is also the Neuroscience Editor-in-Residence for the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience.

 

Web Information

Emory web page: http://ethics.emory.edu/people/Faculty/Karen_Rommelfanger.html

Personal websitehttp://karenrommelfanger.com/

Neuroethics Bloghttp://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/

NEW Leaders website: http://neuroethicswomenleaders.com/

Contact Information

Email: krommel@emory.edu

Phone: (404) 727-1150

Address: 1531 Dickey Drive Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Biosketch

Karen Rommelfanger is the Neuroethics ProgramDirector at the Center for Ethics and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Rommelfanger received her PhD in Neuroscience from Emory University, her research focused on movement disorders. Her current research explores the nature and utility of placebo using Psychogenic Movement Disorders as a therapeutic model. She is also the Neuroscience Editor-in-Residence for the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience.

Dr. Rommelfanger has been a neuroscience researcher for over 10 years and her work has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Neuroscience; her research on Parkinson Disease has been featured in the popular media including Scientific American. She has presented ...

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NeuroEthics Women Leaders

NeuroEthicsWomen (NEW) Leaders aims to continue to cultivate professional networks and skills for women currently in and entering into the field of neuroethics by way of a women in neuroethics network.

The NEW Leaders website aims to act as a living document reflecting the scholarly work and progress in the field of neuroethics by its NEW Leaders and also serves as a resource for professional development and networking.

Web Information

NEW Leaders website: http://neuroethicswomenleaders.com/

Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/NeuroEthicsWomenLeaders

Twitter: @NEWomenLeaders

About

Welcome to the NEW Leaders!

Neuroethics as a field is intellectually diverse including scholars from neuroscience, ethics, philosophy, psychology, law, policy, and many more disciplines. The field explores how neuroscience informs our social value systems (e.g., using brain pathology to determine culpability for crimes) as well as the neuroscientific basis of our value systems (e.g., neuroimaging of humans in moral decision making tasks).

Cultivating neuroethical discourse and thinking is valuable not only for understanding the larger implications of our work as it is related to neuroscience, but also for cultivating a practice of challenging our assumptions—a crucial part of any creative, forward thinking scientist’s or scholar’s tool-kit.

Neuroethics is a fairly young field, pioneered by many women scholars. This is reflected in the name, ...

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