Agenda for Meeting Four: Feb. 28-March 1, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

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 and 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 and 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 and 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.