The Participants Sandra Blakeslee Freelance science writer and regular contributor to the New York...

The ParticipantsThe Participants

Sandra Blakeslee• Freelance science writer and

regular contributor to the New York Times

Books:

• The Body Has a Mind of Its• Phantoms in the Brain• On Intelligence


Arthur L. Caplan• Emanuel and Robert Hart

Professor of Bioethics

• Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics

• Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania

• Column on bioethics for MSNBC.com


Erika Check Hayden• News and features writer

for Nature

• Freelance writer for Wired, Discover, and Foreign Policy

• Teaches science writing


Jenn McCormic • Assistant Professor of

Biomedical Ethics in the Departments of Medicine and and Health Sciences Research at the Mayo Clinic and College of Medicine

• Associate Director of the Research Ethics Resource

• Member of Women In Neuroscience and the Society for Neuroscience

• Co-author of Beyond Sputnik: US Science Policy in the 21st Century


Tiffany Lohwater• Public Engagement Manager

at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

• Worked with researchers and journalists as a public information officer at Johns Hopkins University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


Peter McKnight• Columnist and member of

the editorial board of the Vancouver Sun

• Legal analyst for Global National

• Adjunct professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University


Christie Nicholson• Editor for Scientific

American, online

• Co-created and produced "Science of Sex”

• Produces and hosts pod and video casts, including 60 Second Psych, The Monitor and Instant Egghead


Anthony Phillips• Professor in the Department of

Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia

• Founding Director of the UBC Institute of Mental Health

• Chair of the Advisory Board for CIHR Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction

• Councilor of the Society for Neuroscience

• Founding member of Neuroscience Canada


Eric Racine• Director of the

Neuroethics Research Unit at the IRCM

• Canadian Institute of Health Research New Investigator

• Associate editor of Neuroethics


Elaine Snell• Founder of Snell

Communications

• Senior consultant to the European Dana Alliance for the Brain

• Works with the Federation of European Neuroscience and the British Neuroscience Association


Sam Weiss• Director of the Hotchkiss

Brain Institute

• Professor and Scientist at the University of Calgary

• Holds several patents in the neural stem cell field

• Founder of two biotechnology companies


Mary Anne Moser• Science communicator

journalist, book editor, and award-winning graphic designer

• Co-editor of Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments

• Founding editor of the Banff Centre Press


Jay Ingram• Co-host of the Daily Planet

• Hosted Quirks and Quarks, and hosted two radio documentary series

• Wrote a weekly science column in The Toronto Star for 12 years

• Received numerous awards and honorary degrees for his outstanding contributions to the popularization of science


Judy Illes• Canada Research Chair in

Neuroethics

• Director of the National Core for Neuroethics

• Co-founder of the Neuroethics Society

• Member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

• Editor of the American Journal of Bioethics - Neuroscience


Kevin Sauvé• Master’s candidate of Science

Journalism at the University of British Columbia

• Research intern with the National Core for Neuroethics

• Recipient of the Health Research Communications Award (CIHR)

• Recipient of CTV Globemedia fellowship

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