2025 Pellegrino Symposium
Mens moralis mentis: Professor James Giordano and Two Decades of Neuroethics at Georgetown

Friday, February 14, 2025 at 3 pm via Zoom
In this valedictory event, James Giordano, PhD, DPhil(c), professor in the departments of Neurology and Biochemistry and the Pellegrino Center and Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program at GUMC, reflects on his twenty years of groundbreaking work in neuroethics at Georgetown and beyond.
Professor Giordano has also served as senior bioethicist of the Defense Medical Ethics Center and adjunct professor of psychiatry and public health at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Health Promotions, Technology and Ethics at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany; Stockdale Fellow in Science, Technology, and Ethics at the United States Naval Academy; Senior Science Advisory Fellow of the Strategic Multilayer Assessment Branch of the Joint Staff, Pentagon; and Chair Emeritus of the IEEE Brain Initiative Project on Neurotechnology and Ethics. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center for Ethics; a Fulbright Professorial Fellow; recipient of Germany’s Reichert Prize in Philosophy and Medicine; and an elected member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, and the Royal Society of Medicine (UK).