Hamilton Crowne Plaza Hotel
1001 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tuesday, April 30
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
Commission Chair
James W. Wagner, Ph.D.
Commission Vice-Chair
9:15 – 9:30 a.m. Session 1: Overview of Incidental Findings
Lisa M. Lee, Ph.D., M.S.
Executive Director
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Session 2: Ethical Challenges of Emerging Technologies
Ruth Schwartz Cowan, M.A., Ph.D.
Janice and Julian Bers Professor Emerita
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Robert C. Green, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director for Research
Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Mildred Cho, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Session 3: Incidental Findings in Research
Alex John London, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University
Director, Center for Ethics and Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Bandettini, Ph.D.
Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition
National Institute of Mental Health
Sarah Hilgenberg, M.D.
Recipient of a finding incidental to research
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Session 4: Roundtable Discussion
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Session 5: Incidental Findings in the Clinic
Haavi Morreim, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, New York University School of Medicine
Editor-In-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review
Carol Krucoff
Recipient of a finding incidental to clinical care
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Session 6: Incidental Findings in the Direct-to-Consumer Context
Thomas Donaldson, Ph.D.
Mark O. Winkelman Professor of Legal Studies
Director, Zicklin Center for Research in Business Ethics
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Gail Javitt, J.D., M.P.H.
Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP
Research Scholar, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University
Joanna Mountain, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Research
23andMe
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 – 4:45 p.m. Session 7: Roundtable Discussion
4:45 – 5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Amy Gutmann, Ph.D.
James W. Wagner, Ph.D.
