Past Faculty, Staff and Students
Past Faculty
Judy Illes, Ph.D. is Emeritus Director of the Program in Neuroethics at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
Past Students and Staff Members
Matt Kirschen, Ph.D. was an M.D./Ph.D. student focusing his work on neuroimaging and neuroethics.
Jocelyn Grunwell, Ph.D. is a second year Stanford medical student working with Dr. Judy Illes as part of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanitites scholarly concentration on a neuroregenerative ethics project to identify the ethical issues involved with brain stem cell research and therapy. She graduated from Harvard in 1997 with a BA in chemistry after working in Professor George Whitesides' lab with Milan Mrksich, PhD. After graduation she joined Peter Schultz's lab in the Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley where she studied the biophysics of nucleic acid folding at the single molecule level using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Following Peter Schultz's move to Scripps in 1999, Jocelyn completed her PhD in 2002 in Carolyn Bertozzi's lab where she studied the enzymes responsible for sulfation of glycoproteins involved in the inflammatory cascade. She was a Damon-Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow in Alan Frankel's lab at UCSF where she discovered a novel way to inhibit HIV replication through co-transcriptional targeting of a dominant negative peptide to the HIV promoter. In September of 2005 she began medical school at Stanford.
Jennifer Singh, MPH is a graduate research assistant for the P50 Center for Integrating Ethics and Genetics Research, as well as a fulltime doctoral student in medical sociology at UCSF. She received a bachelor's degree in Biology from Cal Poly State University and worked as a research associate in cell culture process science and recombinant DNA technology at Genentech, Inc. for over 8 years. In 2003, she obtained a master's degree in public health at the University of Washington, which focused on the ethical, legal and social implications of incorporated genetic technology into public health practice. After completing her MPH, she was a research fellow at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Patricia Sohl, M.D., MPH is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst with a special interest in symbolic images and ethics. Her academic work in Europe was in social medicine and psychiatry, teaching patient interviewing skills in addition to medical and professional ethics. For 13 years she was Visiting Lecturer in Health Policy and Ethics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Currently she is the curator at ARAS, the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism, at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.
Sofia Lombera is a a senior in the Science, Technology and Society (STS) program at Stanford University. She is pursing a Bachelor of Sciences degree with technical depth in Biological Sciences and a special interest in Neurosciences. As a senior she will be writing an Honors Thesis on the international perspectives of Neuroethics examining how, when, where and why Neuroethics related topics have been discussed in developed and developing countries. She is currently working on two projects at the SCBE. The first looks to understand depressed patients’ attitude towards brain scans to diagnose clinical depression. The second explores the international dimensions of Neuroethics by looking at opinions of medical students and other medical professionals in Venezuela. She currently splits her time between the SCBE, her thesis and competing at the international level in the equestrian sport of 3-day Eventing.
Molly Chalfin is a senior in the program in Human Biology at Stanford University, with a concentration in Neuroscience and Behavior and a minor in Studio Art. During her time at the Program in Neurothics, she worked on a biblioinformatics project under the direction of Judy Illes and Emily Murphy which sought to quantify the growth of neuroethical discussion in neuroscience literature. She is currently the webmaster for the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and a research assistant at Stanford Law School's Center for Law and Biosciences.
Lisa Hisaw is a junior in the Biological Sciences program at Stanford University. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Biological Sciences with a specialization in Neurobiology or Molecular and Cell Biology and a minor in Economics. She was working the Greenwall-funded project focused on health care advertising and ethnicity, under the direction of Dr. Judy Illes and Dr. LaVera Crawley.
Lalitha Chandrasekher graduated from Brandeis University, 2006,with a Bachelor's of Art degree in Cognitive Science and Music. She worked on a project studying the ethical issues of regenerative medicine, with a focus on the central nervous system. This project is a collaboration with RMEthnet of the University of Toronto (Abdallah Daar, PI) and Adrian Ivinson (Harvard University). She enjoys playing piano, writing music, and reading.
Natalie Guido-Estrada was a junior at Stanford University majoring in Human Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience. After graduation from Stanford she intends to pursue a career in medicine. Working with the P50 Center for Integrating Ethics and Genetics Research, Natalie was preparing an analysis of the media's impact on autism research.
Sarah Waldman was a junior majoring in Human Biology at Stanford University. Sarah was working on a press content analysis of neurotechnology.
Ofek Bar-Ilan was a biology major from the Dominican University of California. She was the Program in Neuroethics's summer intern for 2004. Her projects included analyzing the portrayal of imaging in the media.
Arielle Cahill was a Stanford student majoring in Philosophy. Her work focused on neuroimaging and addiction.
Georgina Clark was an M.D. student from the University of Sydney working on an honors thesis focusing on the social and ethical implications of widespread use of psychopharmaceuticals.
Marisa Gallo was a research coordinator and webmaster for the Program in Neuroethics. She completed a degree in Human Biology at Stanford University and plans to pursue a career in medicine.
Scott Hartley was a Stanford undergraduate student of political science (AB, '05), worked with the SCBE as a research associate for two years, focusing on ethics policy issues in small business. His research with Judy Illes, PhD and Margaret Eaton, JD, PharmD at the GSB resulted in the June 2005 publication of a 200-page ethics recommendation entitled 'Policy for Neurotechnology Development in Small Business.' Scott also published a July 2006 policy paper entitled 'Organ Donation: The Ethics of Policy Choice.
Stacey Kallem was a Human Biology student with a focus in Neuroscience and Neuroethics. While with the Program in Neuroethics, Stacey worked on a press content analysis of neurotechnology. She plans on pursuing a career in medicine.
Dylan Kann graduated from Stanford University in 2003 with a B.A. in Human Biology. He was interested in the ethics of self-referred imaging. Dylan is now pursuing a degree in medicine at UC Davis.
Kim Karetsky worked as the Research Projects Manager in the Program in Neuroethics. Kim is now pursuing an M.B.A. from Columbia University in addition to a M.A. in Bioethics from UPenn.
Megan Kelly graduated from Vassar College in 2004. Her research included a study on incidental findings in neuroimaging.
Rochelle Lee graduated from Stanford University in 2004 with a B.A. in Human Biology. Her work focused on fetal MRI. She is currently attending Harvard Law School.
Philipp LeTourneau is a medical student at Louisiana State University. His work focused on analyzing advertisements for self-referred imaging.
Jonathan Loeb, Ph.D. was a visiting researcher in the department of pathology from January-April 2006.
Arnold Saha graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology in 2004. His work focused on the ethical issues in medical imaging and the drug development process.
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