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GHueGillian Hue
Post Doctoral Fellow
(404) 727-9533
ghue@emory.edu

Gillian Hue is a postdoctoral fellow in Science Education and Ethics in the Program in Science and Society at Emory University.  Gillian earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a concentration in Behavioral Neuroscience from Washington College in Chestertown, MD.  She completed her doctoral research in Neuroscience at Emory University where she studied sleep, circadian rhythms and spinal dopamine.  In her current position, Gillian teaches Research Ethics for scientists, and develops curricula to promote science literacy and ethical engagement at a variety of educational levels.  Gillian is fascinated by “why we do the things we do” - as individuals and as cultures and societies.

 

krommel Karen Rommelfanger
Post Doctoral Fellow
(404) 727-1150
krommel@emory.edu

Karen Rommelfanger is the Assistant Director of the Neuroethics Program at the Center for Ethics and was selected to be a Fellow in the Department of Neurology as part of  the Scholars Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research. Dr. Rommelfanger received her PhD in Neuroscience from Emory University, her research focused on movement disorders. Her current research explores the nature and utility of placebo using Psychogenic Movement Disorders as a therapeutic model. She is also the Neuroscience Editor-in-Residence for the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. Dr. Rommelfanger has been a neuroscience researcher for over 10 years and her work has been published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Neuroscience; her research on Parkinson Disease has been featured in the popular media including Scientific American. She has presented her work at both international and national conferences and has worked in prestigious laboratories in the U.S. and Japan using a broad array of neurotechnologies from brain imaging and behavioral techniques to electrophysiological recording of individual brain cells. She regularly gives Neuroethics talks in both universities and for general audiences; her neuroethics work has been published in a top peer-reviewed neuroethics journal, and she maintains The Neuroethics Blog at Emory University. Dr. Rommelfanger believes that neuroethics training gives neuroscientists a creative edge and that neuroethics discussions are critical for academics and general audiences alike in order to ensure maximal benefit of neuroscience discoveries for society.

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