Reminder: Special CCNELSI Symposium:
"Use and Misuse of Neurology and Psychiatry:
Lessons Learned from the Holocaust"
 
January 14, 2011
10 am - 4 pm

 
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (www.potomacinstitute.org) in conjunction with the Capital Consortium for Neuroscience: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (CCNELSI) (www.ccnelsi.com) is pleased to present a special one-day symposium and panel discussion, Use and Misuse of Neurology and Psychiatry: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust, to be held on Friday, January 14, 2011, from 10 am - 4 pm, at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, 901 N. Stuart Street, Arlington, VA.   
 
Advances in genetics and neuroscience have enabled considerable progress in neurology and psychiatry. However, such progress also incurs questions, issues and potential problems. Thus, it is critical to re-examine the past, in order to assess the present and work to prevent pragmatic and ethical transgressions in the future. The misuses of genetic and neuro-psychiatric science reached a nadir in the events that led to and culminated in the Holocaust, and these provide valuable object lessons with which to address and prevent potential neuroethical risks and harms. The January 14 program will address these important issues, with input from leading experts. 
Speakers include:

Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Professor, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and Former Chair, President’s Council on Bioethics (2005-2009)
 
Patricia Heberer, PhD, Historian, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

James Giordano, PhD, Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC; Senior Research Associate, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford, UK
 
Kevin FitzGerald, PhD, SJ, Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
 
Daniel Hall-Flavin, MD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Minneapolis, MN
 
Dirksen Bauman, PhD, Professor, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
 
John K. Hall, MD, JD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
   
Refreshments will be served, and a wine and cheese reception will follow.  Seating will be limited to 50, so RSVP is required. Please send name and affiliation to Laurie Kinney at lkinney@potomacinstitute.org.  Please specify that you are registering for the January 14 CCNELSI event.

 
Date: Friday, January 14, 2011
Time: 10 am - 4 pm 
Place:                                           
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
901 North Stuart Street, Suite 200
Arlington, VA 22203
(Ballston Metro Station, Orange Line)
703-525-0770