Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University
Cristina Alberini, Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University, has been studying the biological mechanisms of long-term memory for the last 20 years. Her studies explore the biological mechanisms of memory consolidation and reconsolidation, the processes by which newly learned information become long-lasting memories, and how memories are modulated and integrated into complex behavioral manifestations.… read more »
Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Co-Director, Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology
Co-Editor, The American Journal of Cultural Sociology
Jeffrey Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, founder and co-director of Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology, and co-editor of The American Journal of Cultural Sociology. A social theorist whose early work challenged the anti-cultural reductionism of classical and modern sociology, Alexander has worked with generations of students and colleagues to create a “strong program” in cultural sociology.… read more »
Vice President of Inclusion and Community, Dow Jones
Allison Avery is the Vice President of Inclusion and Community at Dow Jones, leading global diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) efforts. She has expertise, as both a practitioner and strategist, in DE&I, organizational culture, learning and development. She has held senior DE&I and People Team roles at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP, NYU Langone Health and Hospital System, and NYU School of Medicine as the first Director of Diversity and Inclusion.… read more »
Psychologist, Educator, & Author
Ben Bernstein, Ph.D., is a psychologist, educator,and author, with an expertise on performance and test stress .
An honors graduate of Bowdoin College, Bernstein received his doctorate in Applied Psychology from the University of Toronto and later a master’s degree in Music Composition from Mills College. … read more »
Author, Writer
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Richard Cohen is the author of four well-received books of cultural history, By The Sword (a history of swordplay), Chasing The Sun (a history of our star), and How to Write Like Tolstoy, A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers.… read more »
Associate Professor, Pain & Translational Symptom Science, University of Maryland
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Dr. Luana Colloca is an NIH-funded faculty at the University of Maryland Baltimore. Dr. Colloca holds an MD, a master degree in Bioethics and a PhD in Neuroscience and completed a post-doc training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and a senior research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA.… read more »
Professor, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
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Nathaniel Comfort is Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His interests lie in the histories of genetics, eugenics, genomics, and biomedicine, as well as bioethics. He is the author of The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock’s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control (Harvard, 2001) and The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine (Yale, 2012), and editor of and contributor to The Panda’s Black Box: Opening Up the Intelligent Design Controversy.… read more »
Director of Park Avenue Neurology
Clinical Professor of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Gayatri Devi M.D. is a New York City neurologist, board-certified in Neurology, Pain Medicine, Psychiatry, Brain Injury Medicine, and Behavioral Neurology. Born and raised in India, after post-graduate residency training at Downstate and Columbia University, she established a center for neurologic wellness.… read more »
Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, Stanford University
Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences, Stanford University
Henry T. (Hank) Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law; Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics; and Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University. He specializes in ethical, legal, and social issues arising from the biosciences.… read more »
Director of Basic & Translational Research, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Dr. Kathryn Hall is Director of Basic and Translational Research at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Preventive Medicine, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School. After receiving her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Harvard University she spent 10 years in the biotech industry tackling problems in drug discovery and development, first at Wyeth (now Pfizer) and then at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda), where she became an Associate Director of Drug Development.… read more »
Professor of Psychology, Barnard College
Dr. Alexandra Horowitz is a researcher and professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches seminars in canine cognition, creative nonfiction writing, and audio storytelling. As Senior Research Fellow, she heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard, studying the behavior and mind of owned dogs.… read more »
Associate Director, The Helix Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center
Gerald Hurowitz is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and on faculty for the past 30 years at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He has a full-time clinical practice in psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry in New York City. Dr. Hurowitz is a founder and Chief Medical Officer at M3 Information, an information technology company that focuses on mental health integration into primary care.… read more »
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Columbia University
Dhananjay Jagannathan teaches philosophy and classical studies at Columbia University. His academic research centers on Aristotle’s ethics and political philosophy and contemporary virtue ethics. He has also written about issues at the intersection of philosophy and literature, including on tragedy and the novel.… read more »
Professor, Psychiatry, Columbia University
Director, Bioethics Program, Columbia University
Robert Klitzman, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, and the Director of the online and in-person Bioethics Masters and Certificate Programs at Columbia University. He has written over 150 scientific journal articles, nine books, and numerous chapters on critical issues in bioethics regarding genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry doctor-patient relationships and other areas.… read more »
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough
Andy Lee is a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Toronto, where he leads the Lee MTL Lab. Using a variety of methodological approaches including functional brain imaging and the study of individuals with memory disorders, his research group investigates how the brain supports memory processing, and how memory interacts with visual perception and motivational decision making.… read more »
Schub Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Director, NYU Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder & PTSD
Executive Director, NYU Langone Military Family Center
Charles R. Marmar, MD joined NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Langone Health in 2009 as the Lucius N. Littauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. He has recently been named the Peter H. Schub Professor of Psychiatry. He also serves as Director of the Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorders and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and as Executive Director of the Steven A.… read more »
Author & Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland
Takis S Pappas (PhD, Yale) is a Greek author and researcher currently associated with the University of Helsinki, Finland. Formerly a professor of comparative politics at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, he has also held teaching and research appointments at the universities of Strasbourg, Oslo, Freiburg, Luxembourg, Central European University in Budapest, European University Institute in Florence, Yale, and Princeton.… read more »
Professor, Bioethics Program, School of Public Health, University of Montreal
President, International Association of Bioethics
Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Vardit Ravitsky is Full Professor at the Bioethics Program, School of Public Health, University of Montreal and Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is President of the International Association of Bioethics and Director of Ethics and Health at the Center for Research on Ethics.… read more »
Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Harry L. Watson is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor in Southern Culture in the History Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, he received his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and his doctorate from Northwestern before joining the UNC-CH History Department in 1976.… read more »
Professor, Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Attending Psychiatrist, New York Presbyterian Medical Center
Ralph Wharton is Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. His work is focused on the clinical use of psychotropic medicines alone and in conjunction with psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. His clinical research on the use of lithium carbonate in the affective psychoses was noted in the Special Sesquicentennial Issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry and was republished there as one of the best in its 150 years as a publication.… read more »
Writer, Ceramicist, & Conceptual Artist
Creator of the Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project
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Setsuko Winchester, creator of the Freedom from Fear/Yellow Bowl Project, is a writer, ceramicist and conceptual artist. Prior to moving to Western Massachusetts in 2006 to pursue a life-long interest in ceramics and the visual arts, she worked as a journalist, editor and producer at NPR’s Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation.… read more »
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