Second Annual Neuroscience and Ethics Award

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Monday April 9, 2012 - Tuesday April 10, 2012
      8:00 pm - 8:59 pm
  • Location: Emory University - Woodruff Health Sciences Administration Building Auditorium
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Summaries

Summary Sentence: Steven Hyman, M.D. - Former Provost of Harvard and Director of NIMH

Full Summary: The Neuroethics Program of the Center for Ethics, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and The Neuroscience Initiative present the Second Annual Neuroscience and Ethics Award
to Steven Hyman, M.D., Former Provost of Harvard and Director of NIMH who will be speaking on: Addiction as a Window on Volitional Control

Dr. Steven Hyman is a renowned leader in neuroscience and psychiatry, and has championed ethical inquiry in those fields. Dr. Hyman is former director of the National Institute of Mental Health and former Harvard University provost, where he is currently the Distinguished Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Professor of Neurobiology. He is also the Director of the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, and President of the International Neuroethics Society as well as a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the United States National Academies and serves on the IOM council.

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Groups

Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)

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Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
Emory University, IBB
Status
  • Created By: Floyd Wood
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Apr 5, 2012 - 6:58am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 9:58pm