Lisa Harris, MD
Primary Care Physician
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Lisa Harris, MD, was born in Oneida, New York, the eldest child and only daughter of the honorable Judge Roy and Mrs. Lucille King. Dr. Harris attended Monroe Jr. Sr. High School and then furthered her education at the University of Rochester, where she received a B.S. in neurosciences.  Later, she attended Morehouse School of Medicine where she received her medical degree. Her training was completed at the Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, MI.  Dr. Harris is boarded in two specialties, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, allowing her to care for both the adult and pediatric populations. Currently, Dr. Harris is in private practice.

Glenn McGee, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
The American Journal of Bioethics

Dr. Glenn McGee is the director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute, a comprehensive ethics research and education organization of the Albany Medical College of Union University, founded in 2005 with programs in Albany Law School, College of Pharmacy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, GE Global Research, Albany Nanotech, Rockefeller Institute and a dozen other institutions of higher learning, research and government in the New York capital district.

He holds the John A. Balint Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics, and is a tenured Professor of medicine, and is professor of law, public health and of philosophy at both SUNY and Union. He has served as Chief of the Office of Bioethics for the New York State Health Department Wadsworth Center, and in 2007 was elected to the board of directors of the American Society for Bioethics & the Humanities.

Professor McGee is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Bioethics. Professor McGee has authored more than 150 articles in medical, legal, business and scientific journals. In 2007 an anthology of his work entitled Imagination, Experiments, Courage and Values will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. McGee received his BA and PhD at Baylor and Vanderbilt Universities. He is currently Director of a project funded by the Charitable Leadership Foundation to study the effect of ethics consultation on length-of-stay in the ICU. In April 2006 he was given the Appignani Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Bioethics at the United Nations.

Mark Mapstone, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Mark Mapstone, PhD is a practicing clinical neuropsychologist and active researcher in the field of cognitive neuroscience.  He is the senior neuropsychologist in the University of Rochester Memory Disorders Clinic where his clinical focus is cognitive complaints in older adults and behavioral characterization of dementias.  His research is funded by an Early Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging and focuses on understanding brain mechanisms of cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease.  He is also involved in clinical trials designed to understand and treat age-related memory problems and neurodegenerative diseases.  Dr. Mapstone received a doctorate in clinical psychology from Northwestern University and completed fellowships in clinical neuropsychology and experimental therapeutics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. 

Aaron Nelson, PhD, ABPP
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Psychology and Neuropsychology
Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston  MA)
 
Dr. Nelson is a board certified clinical neuropsychologist, currently Chief of Psychology and Neuropsychology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He completed his undergraduate degree at Rutgers College and earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1994, Dr. Nelson co-founded the Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology at BWH. He founded the Harvard Partners Consortium in Neuropsychology (HPCN) for the training of postdoctoral fellows in 1999 which he continues to direct. In addition to his work within the BWH/Harvard system, Dr. Nelson maintains a part-time private practice. He is involved in a number of research endeavors including projects in aging and memory, epilepsy, and dementia. Dr. Nelson recently authored The Harvard Medical School Guide to Achieving Optimal Memory. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society and is a member of the Medical Advisory Board for The Brain Tumor Society. He is also the neuropsychology consultant for the Boston Bruins, as part of the National Hockey League Concussion program.

Amy F.T. Arnsten, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, Director of Graduate Studies
Yale University School of Medicine

Dr. Arnsten is a neuroscientist and Professor of Neurobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. She is one of the world's experts on how stress, aging and mental illness alter the molecular environment of the prefrontal cortex, a highly evolved brain region that allows us to intelligently regulate our attention, memory, emotions and actions. Her lab has developed new treatments for disorders that afflict the prefrontal cortex, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Her lab has also uncovered changes in the aging brain that lead to problems of forgetfulness and distraction as we grow older. Dr. Arnsten has authored more than 100 scientific articles, and is a frequent guest speaker at scientific seminars and conferences. She is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals, including Cognitive Neuroscience. She teaches brain anatomy and function to Yale undergraduates, medical students and graduate students, and directs large research programs on the molecular basis of cognitive decline in aging and mental illness.

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Investigative Journalist

Cathryn Jakobson Ramin is the author of the best-selling book, CARVED IN SAND: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife. As a journalist, she has published stories in a wide variety of publications including the New York Times Magazine. She also wrote the article, Valley of the Dulls, for O, the Oprah magazine, a controversial look at the cognitive side effects of antidepressant drugs.  Ms. Ramin is a graduate of Tufts University and a member of the Author's Guild and the National Association of Science Writers. She was a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 2005, and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2006.