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2019
December 11 Future (Brain) Identities: Lost in Translation, Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroethics Workshop, Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 18 Global Neuroethics Dilemmas: Engaging Neuroethics, International Neuroethics Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 25-27 Global Neuroethics Summit, Daegu, S. Korea
September 24 IBRO Neuroethics, Daegu, S. Korea
August 19 NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group Meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA
July 18 No Longer Unthinkable: Neuroethics Questions for the 21st Century Neuroscientist. Allen Institute for Brain Science Distinguished Seminar Series, Seattle, Washington, USA
July 8 Neuroethics: IBRO School, Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai, China
June 8 Grey Matters: Brain technology, Ethics, and the Public, ECSITE Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark
May 30 Ethical Challenges in Digital Phenotyping: Predicting Brain Health with Phones, Social Media, and Beyond, Neuroscience in the Wild, Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
May 19-21 Global Neuroethics Pre-Summit Workshop, Uppsala, Sweden
May 7 Values in Neurotech Innovation: Rethinking and Retooling Brain Health with Ethics, SharpBrains Virtual Summit
April 9-11 4th Annual BRAIN Principle Invesigator’s Meeting, Rockville Maryland
March 19 Global Neuroethics, International Brain Initiative Coordinating Body Meeting, Shanghai, China,
February 15 Ethical Challenges in Digital Phenotyping: Predicting Brain Health with Phones, Social Media, and Beyond, Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, Atlanta, USA
January 23 What can we learn from Deep Brain stimulation? Ethical Considerations in innovative neural devices, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
2018
November 11-12 Global Futures Council Meeting of the World Economic Forum, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
November 1-3 International Neuroethics Society, San Diego, CA, USA
October 11-14 Neuroethics Questions for Neuroscientists in the International Brain Initiatives, Global Neuroethics Summit 2018, Seoul, S. Korea
October 6 Ethical Issues and Novel Technologies for the Practicing Clinician, 22nd International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Movement Disorders Society, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong [cancelled]
September 13-15 Setting a Research Agenda in Functional Neurological Disorders, Emory Center for Ethics, Atlanta, GA, USA
September 3-6 Global Neuroethics, http://www.oecd.org/sti/emerging-tech/workshop-on-minding-neurotechnology.htm, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Shanghai, China
August 13 Neuroethics Division Meeting of the NIH BRAIN Initiative, Bethesda, MD
August 10 Association of Baha’i Studies: Neuroscience, Religion, and Ethics, Atlanta, GA
July 5 International Brain Initiative Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland
May 22- July 2 Neuroethics Course, Emory Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology in Paris, France
May 10-11 Global Neuroethics, International Brain Initiative, Daegu/Seoul, S. Korea
April 10 Neuroethics Guiding Principles Town Hall, NIH BRAIN 4th Annual Investigators Meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA
April 8 Ethical Implications of Brain Behavior Quantification, Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
March 28 NIH BRAIN Neuroethics Division Meeting, Ex Vivo Brains, Bethesda, MD, USA
March 20-21 Ethical Considerations in Transnational Neuroscience Data Collaboration, Data Governance in International Neuro-ICT Collaborations, University of Oxford, England
February 15 Neuroethics in the big brain initiatives: Necessity or luxury? Human Brain Project Student Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia
February 6 (Moderator), Perspectives from the public in Direct-to-Consumer Neurotechnologies, Banbury Center (Science Think Tank), Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
February 5 Internet-Based Brain Training Games, Citizen Scientists and Ethical Issues in Unprecedented Virtual Territories, Banbury Center (Science Think Tank), Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
January 19 NIH BRAIN Neuroethics Division Meeting, Stanford Law School, Menlo Park, CA, USA
2017
December 25 Mind Over Matter: Placebo for Functional (Psychogenic) Movement Disorders. National Taiwan University, Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
November 12 Global Brain Projects: cross-cultural perspectives and value conflicts in experimental design. (Panel with AAAS Dialogues on Science & Religion), Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, USA
November 9 (Co-chair) Reflecting on our international roots and planning our collaborative futures, International Ambassador Session, International Neuroethics Society, Washington, DC, USA
October 26 Moderator, Ethical Issues in Research with Invasive and Non-Invasive Neural Devices in Humans. National Institutes of Health Department of Bioethics, Bethesda, MD, USA
October 19 Introduction to Neuroethics, International Brain Research Organization, Advanced School on Functional Brain Mapping and Advanced Neurotechnologies, Daegu, South Korea
October 17-18 (Chair) Global Neuroethics Summit, Daegu, South Korea
September 14-15 Expert Consultation on Neurotechnology and Society, National Academy of Sciences, hosted by Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, Washington DC
September 6-8 Attitudes and Ethics that Inform Medical Practice: What have we not said yet? Third International Conference on Functional (Psychogenic) Neurological Disorders. Edinburgh, Scotland
August 16-18 NIH BRAIN Neuroethics Division Meeting
August 4 Mind Over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders Memorial Health Grand Rounds, Savannah, GA, USA
August 3 Brain Enhancement: Gray Matters, Savannah, GA, USA
June 11 Predictive Brain Health: Ethical Issues in the Liminal Zone of Diagnoses. Lundbeck International Neuroscience Foundation, Helsingor, Denmark
May 22-24 Ethical Guidelines for Neurotechnologies Workshop, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
May 11 Ex Vivo Brains Workshop, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
May 4 United Nations Global Pulse: Building a Strong Ethics and Data Privacy Platform, UN Headquarters, New York, NY, USA
April 28 (Faculty-chair) The Use of Preclinical Biomarkers for Brain Diseases: A Neuroethical Dilemma, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
March 28 Updates on the BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics, Ethics Advisory Board for Human Brain Project, Bristol, England
March 3-4 Co-Chair, Partners in Treatment Innovation for Functional Neurological Disorders: Patients, Families, Researchers, and Providers, Brain Health Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Feb 14 NIH BRAIN Neuroethics Division Meeting, live webcast, Bethesda, MD, USA
2016
December 13 Neuroethics. BRAIN Initiative Investigator’s Meeting, Bethesda, MD
December 7 Brain Enhancement: Gray Matters. Voya, NYC
December 7 Future (Brain) Identities, Lost in Translation. Future. Today Summit, NYC
November 11 Moderator, Deconstructing Therapeutic Neurotechnology Narratives: A case study of DBS for Depression. International Neuroethics Society, San Diego, CA
October 7 Moderator, Dead Wrong? Ethical Implications of Misdiagnoses in Brain Death and the Vegetative State, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, DC
September 28 Better than Well? Neuroenhancement and Beyond, Paul Fernhoff Ethics in Science Memorial Lecture, Atlanta Jewish Academy, GA
September 9 Roundtable with NIH BRAIN Neuroethics Committee, Kavli Futures Symposium, Columbia University, NY
June 30 Is Placebo Use, Surgery or Drugs, Ethically Justifiable in Psychogenic Disorders? Neuroethics Network, Paris, France
April 22 When I becomes We: Ethical Implications of Emerging Brain-to-Brain Interfacing Technologies, Program on Values Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle
April 6 [CANCELLED] The Ethical Landscape of Bionic Technologies, Medical Bionics Summit, Arlington, VA
April 1 Mind Over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders, Neurology Grand Rounds, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
March 2 On the BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics, Ethics Advisory Board for Human Brain Project, Basel, Switzerland
January 21 Ethics and Implications for the Individual: Invasive Neural Enhancements. American Academy of Arts & Sciences Human Performance Enhancement Workshop, Cambridge, MA
2015
October 30 (Moderator/host) Zombies and Zombethics! Really, most sincerely, dead. Emory University, Atlanta, GA
October 9-10 Controversial labels and clinical uncertainties: psychogenic disorders, conversion disorder, and functional symptoms Consensus Conference, Atlanta, GA
October 9 (Moderator/host) Psychosomatic Disorders: Real or Imagined? Atlanta Science Tavern, GA
Sept 25 Ethical Decision-Making in Psychological Practice, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Sept 20 Audience talk-back, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA
August 10 Mind Over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders, University of Zurich, WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics, Switzerland
June 25 Self/less Screening Regal Atlantic Station, Atlanta, GA
May 17-20 (co-host) Biotechnology and the Ethical ImagiNation a Global Summit. Atlanta, GA
April 21 (Moderator) BEINGS Preview Event-Exploring the Promise and Pitfalls of Altering Human Cells. Atlanta European Science Cafe.
March 23 Atlanta Science Festival. Somewhere Over the Brain-Bow, Neurotechnology, Fact, Fiction, & Future, GA.
March 17 Barkley Forum and Committee on Academic Integrity, panel on Study Drugs: Exploring the Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
March 9 Mind Over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders, Skyland Trail, Atlanta, GA
2014
December 2 Mind Over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders, Nursing Grand Rounds, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
November 25 Beyond Therapy: Invasive and non-invasive brain technologies Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
October 31 co-host, Zombies and Zombethics!, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
October 15 Discussant on The Substance-Albert Hofmann’s LSD, Atlanta European Science Café (Consulate General of Switzerland/Atlanta Science Tavern)
August 31 Decatur Book Festival, GA
June 19 Neurosurgery Grand Rounds: Mind over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
April 12 Better than Well? Neuroenhancement and Beyond. Undergraduate Research Symposium Keynote, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
April 3 Mind Over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia [Psychosomatic Medicine]
March 25 Beyond Experimental Controls: Placebo as Therapy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
March 24 Atlanta Science Festival Decatur: Ask a Scientist Night, Decatur, GA
March 21 Panel Moderator, Neuroscience, Neuroenhancement and the Future of Bioethics, Embracing Change: Balancing Innovation and Our Humanity. 20th Annual Conference of the Healthcare Ethics Consortium, Atlanta, GA
March 10 (rescheduled to April 12) Better than Well? Neuroenhancement and Beyond. Brain Awareness Week Speaker Undergraduate Research Symposium Keynote, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Feb 5 The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement Agnes Scott Atlanta, GA
Jan 30 (rescheduled Feb 12) Panelist, Barkley Forum and Committee of Academic Integrity, panel on study-enhancing drugs, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Tentatively rescheduled due to Polar Vortex for 2015, date TBA.
2013
Dec 10 co-host, Bias in the Academy: From Neural Networks to Social Networks Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Nov 1 co-host, Zombies and Zombethics!: A lively, scholarly discussion about the (un)dead Emory University, Atlanta, GA
July 9 Beyond Therapy: Invasive and non-invasive brain technologies Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
May 20 Biotechnology and Social Change (Cognitive Enhancement) Kennesaw State University, GA
May 7 Placebo and psychogenic disorders Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China
April 20 Is It All in Your Head? Neuroscience, Belief, and Illness Atlanta Science Tavern/Atlanta Skeptics Atlanta, GA
March 15 Collegiate Neuroscience Society, Georgia State University, Atlanta
March 2 Intersections: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender and Sexuality Georgia Gwinnett College Lawrenceville, GA
2012
December 4 Neuroimaging and end-of-life decision making Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
November 29 Does this lab coat make me look fat? Emory Women in Neuroscience Atlanta, GA
October 31 A Zombie Braaains Inspired Neuroethics Discussion Zombies and Zombethics! Emory Center for Ethics Atlanta, GA
October 25 Placebo for Psychogenic Disorders Brain Matters 3 Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH
October 16 A Decade of Neuroethics: A Conversation International Neuroethics Society Society for Neuroscience New Orleans, LA
October 5 Mind over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders Frontiers in Neuroscience Emory University Atlanta, GA
September 24 Mind over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders University of Tokyo/Japan Science and Technology Agency Tokyo, Japan
April 17 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Lie Detection GTNeuro (Neuroscience Club) Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA
March 23 Better than well: Neuroenhancement and Neurodiversity: Implications for Health and Disease Nu Rho Psi (Neuroscience Academic Honors Society) Atlanta, GA
February 23 Mind over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders Clinical Ethics Seminar Emory University Atlanta, GA
2011
October 14 Mind over Matter: Placebo for Psychogenic Movement Disorders Psychology Lecture Series Augusta State University Augusta, GA
August 11 Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Lie Detection Atlanta Science Tavern Atlanta, GA
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