James Giordano, PhD, MPhil, is Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program, Scholar-in-Residence, leads the Sub-Program in Military Medical Ethics, is Co-director of the O’Neill-Pellegrino Program in Brain Science and Global Health Law and Policy in the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics; and is Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. He also serves as Senior Bioethicist of the Department of Defense Medical Ethics Center, and Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda MD. As well, he Distinguished Visiting Professor of Brain Science, Health Promotions and Ethics at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Coburg, Germany, and was formerly 2011-2012 JW Fulbright Foundation Visiting Professor of Neurosciences and Neuroethics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
Prof. Giordano is Chair Emeritus of the Neuroethics Program of the IEEE Brain Project; Senior Science Advisory Fellow of the Strategic Multilayer Assessment Branch of the Joint Staff of the Pentagon; and Stockdale Fellow of Science, Technology and Ethics at the United States Naval Academy.
He previously served as an appointed member of the Neuroethics, Legal and Social Issues (NELSI) Advisory Panel of the Defense Advanced Research Projects’ Agency (DARPA); Research Fellow and Task Leader of the EU Human Brain Project Sub-Project on Dual-Use Brain Science; and an appointed member of United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Council on Human Research Protections (SACHRP).
The author of over 350 peer-reviewed publications, 9 books, and 45 multinational governmental reports on neurotechnology, ethics and biosecurity, he is Associate Editor of the journal Pain Physician; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the international journal Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine; Associate Editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics; and Contributing Editor of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
His ongoing research addresses the neurobiological bases of neuropsychiatric spectrum disorders; and neuroethical issues arising in and from the development, use and misuse of neuroscientific techniques and neurotechnologies in medicine, public life, global health, and military applications.
In recognition of his work, he was elected to membership in the European Academy of Science and Arts; named an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK); received City University of New York’s Outstanding Alumnus Award; Coburg University’s Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement, and was awarded Germany’s Klaus Reichert Prize in Medicine and Philosophy.
Dr. Giordano‘s latest publications can be found in the Medical Research Archives of the European Society of Medicine, Science Direct, and Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine