St. Regis Hotel
923 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 638-2626
Monday, February 28
9 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
Commission Chair
James Wagner, Ph.D.
Commission Vice Chair
9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Session 1: Bioethics Research at NIH
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, National Institutes of Health
9:45 – 10:30 a.m. Session 2: State of the Science
Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Director, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Department of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Genetics
James P. Evans, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Professor and Bryson Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Medicine
Department of Genetics
University of North Carolina, School of Medicine
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 – 11:45 a.m. Session 3: Ethics of Emerging Diagnostic and Predictive Tools
Martha Farah, Ph.D.
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in Natural Sciences
Professor of Psychology
Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Director, Center for Neuroscience and Society
Senior Fellow, Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania
Hank Greely, J.D.
Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics
Stanford Medical School
Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences
Director, Stanford Interdisciplinary Group on Neuroscience and Society and its Program in Neuroethics
Stanford Law School
Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics
11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch Break
1:15 – 2:15 p.m. Session 4: Current Issues in Genetics
Ellen Wright Clayton, J.D., M.D.
Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Law
Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Vanderbilt University
Susan Wolf, J.D.
McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy
Faegre & Benson Professor of Law
Professor of Medicine
Faculty Member, Center for Bioethics
University of Minnesota
Erik Parens, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scholar
The Hastings Center
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Session 5: Current Issues in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Judy Illes, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics
Director, National Core for Neuroethics
Faculty, Brain Research Centre
University of British Columbia
Stephen Morse, J.D., Ph.D.
Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law
Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania Law School & School of Medicine
Adina Roskies, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Dartmouth College
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Session 6: Roundtable
All Guest Speakers
4:30 – 4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
James Wagner, Ph.D.
Tuesday, March 1
9 – 9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks and Executive Director’s Report
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
James Wagner, Ph.D.
Valerie H. Bonham, J.D.
Executive Director
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Session 7: Medical Research – The Global Landscape
Lawrence Corey, M.D.
President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Principal Investigator, HIV Vaccine Trials Network
Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Medicine
University of Washington
Robert M. Califf, M.D.
Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research
Duke University
Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Director, Duke Translational Medicine Institute
10:30 – 10:40 a.m. Break
10:40 – 11:40 a.m. Session 8: Social Justice and Ethics Issues
Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D.
Robert Turell Professor of History of Medicine and Bioethics
Chair, Medical History and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Dan W. Brock, Ph.D.
Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Director, Division of Medical Ethics
Harvard Medical School
Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D.
Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
Dean (Bioethics) and Professor of Medicine, Medical and Molecular Genetics, Public Health, and Philosophy
IU School of Medicine
Director, Indiana University-Moi University Academic Research Ethics Partnership
11:40 – 11:50 a.m. Break
11:50 a.m. – 12:35 p.m. Session 9: Roundtable
All Guest Speakers
12:35 – 1:20 p.m. Session 10: Public Comment
1:20 – 1:30 p.m. Concluding Remarks
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
James Wagner, Ph.D.
