JAMES J. GIORDANO, Ph.D

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JAMES J. GIORDANO, Ph.D.

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Grad. Certificate / 2006 / Loyola University, IL: Bioethics and Health Policy
M.S. / 2002 / Lamar University, TX: Biomechanics/Kinesiology
Post-doc. / 1986-88 / Johns Hopkins University: Neurotoxicology/Neuropathology
Ph.D. / 1986 / City University of NY: Biopsychology (with distinction)
M.S. / 1986 / City University of NY: Biopsychology/Neuropharmacology
M. Phil. / 1985 / City University of NY: Philosophy of Psychology
M.A. / 1982 / Norwich University, VT: Physiological Psychology
B. Sci. / 1981 / St. Peter’s College, NJ: Psychology (cum laude)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRESENT POSITION(S)

-Chief Scientist, Office of the Senior Vice President for Research,

Georgetown University

-Chief, Neuroethics Studies Program, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics

-Professor, Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry,

Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA

Co-appointments:

-Division of Integrative Physiology, Department of Biochemistry

-Graduate Liberal Studies Program

Georgetown University Medical Center

Washington, DC, USA

CURRENT VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS/APPOINTMENTS:

Appointed Member, Neuroethics, Legal and Social Issues’ Advisory Council

Defense Advanced Research Projects’ Agency (DARPA)

Washington, DC, USA

Senior Science Advisory Fellow

Joint Staff, J-3; Deputy Director for Global Operations

The Pentagon

Visiting Professor of Science, Technology and Ethics

Coburg University of Applied Sciences

Coburg, GER

2011-2016 William H. and Ruth Crane Schaefer Distinguished Visiting Professor

Neuroethics

Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA

Visiting Professor, Science and Society Graduate Program,

University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

Fellow, Center for National Preparedness

Bioscience, Technology, and Society Program

University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Senior Fellow, Board of Regents

Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

Arlington, VA, USA

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2012-2015
2011-2012 / Clark Fellow in Neuroscience and Ethics
Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilans Universität
München, GER
JW Fulbright Visiting Professor of Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Ethics
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, GER
2008-2012 / Director, Center for Neurotechnology Studies
Vice President for Academic Programs
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
Arlington, VA, USA
2009-2013 / IGERT Visiting Professor of Neurosciences and Ethics
Department of Electrical and Computational Engineering
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
2005-2008 / Samueli-Rockefeller Professor
Departments of Medicine and Neurosciences
Director, Brain~Mind and Healing Research Program
and
Scholar-in-Residence and Clinical Ethicist
Center for Clinical Bioethics
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, DC, USA
2004-2005 / Fellow, Bioethics and Medical Philosophy
John P. McGovern Center for Health, Humanities and Ethics
Texas Medical Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA
2001-2005 / Associate Professor
Moody Health Sciences Center
Director, Institute for Integrative Medicine Research, Ethics and Policy
Houston/Pasadena, TX, USA
1996-2001 / Director, Pain Management and Behavioral Medicine Research Programs (conjoint)
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Centers
Houston/Clear Lake and Beaumont, TX, USA
2000-2001
1996-2000 / Associate Professor
Assistant Professor (conjoint appointment with HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital)
Departments of Biology and Psychology
Lamar University: Texas State University
Beaumont, TX, USA
1993-1995 / Director, Aerospace Training Center
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
Cherry Point, NC, USA
1992-1993 / Post-graduate Preceptorship in Aerospace Physiology
U.S. Navy Aerospace Physiology Training Program,
Naval Aeromedical Institute
Pensacola, FL, USA
1989-1992 / Director of Pain Research (conjoint appointment w. Drake University)
Iowa Methodist Medical Foundation
Des Moines, IA, USA
1988-1992 / Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Drake University
Des Moines, IA, USA
1986-1988 / Post-doctoral Fellow, Neurotoxicology/Neuropathology
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, FELLOWSHIPS/VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

·  Associated Scholar, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, University of Oxford, UK

·  Friedrich Wilhelms Visiting Professor of Neuroethics , Rheinische Universität, Bonn, GER

·  AAPM National Visiting Professor of Neuroscience and Ethics, Texas Tech University, TX

·  American Psychological Association Fellow: Harvard Medical School Advanced Training Institute in Biomedical Neuroimaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, MA.

·  Clinical Fellow, Methods and Ethics Study Section, National Pain Databank Project

·  Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Neurophysiology, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

·  Visiting Scientist, Dept. Clinical Neuropharmacology, Max Planck Institute, Munich, GER

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Journals

·  Editor-in-Chief, Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine

·  Associate Editor, Journal of Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine

·  Founding Editor-in-Chief, Synesis: A Journal of Science, Technology, Ethics and Policy (2008-2012)

Book Series’ Executive Editor-in Chief:

·  Advances in Neurotechnology: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues. CRC Press, Boca Raton

·  Brain Science, Philosophy, and Ethics. Brill Press, NY, and Amsterdam, NL

Book Series’ Associate Editor

·  Augmenting Human Performance. Springer Verlag, NY.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2012 / Klaus Reichert Prize for Medicine and Philosophy (Germany)
2013-14 / National Distinguished Lecturer, Sigma Xi, National Research Honor Society
2012-14 / National Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE
2011 / Elected to Senior Membership, IEEE
2011-12 / JW Fulbright Foundation Senior Visiting Professorship
2008 / Elected to European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2008 / American Academy of Pain Medicine-Pfizer National Visiting Professorship
2007 / Hallvard Award for Scientific Excellence and Leadership, Ola Grimsby Medical Institute of North America
2007 / Elected to Life Membership, Karl Jaspers Society of North America
2006-08 / Manchikanti Distinguished Lectureship, American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians/American Board of Pain Medicine
2005 / William Hershel Medal for Achievement in Biomedicine and Education, American Academy of Thermology
2004 / American Academy of Pain Management Richard Weiner Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education in Pain Medicine
2001 / Elected as Fellow, North American Spine Society
1999 / Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
1998 / Lamar University Faculty Award for Teaching and Research Excellence
1997 / Elected as Fellow, American Society of Behavioral Medicine
1995 / Who’s Who Among Young Professionals in America
1993 / Medical Service Corps Director’s Award for Excellence, Naval Aerospace Medical Institute
1991 / Named as “Presidential Point of Light” for academic and professional service
1991 / Professional Excellence Award, Drake University
1985 / Distinguished Doctoral Student Award, City University of New York
1984 / Elected to Sigma Xi, National Research Honor Society
1981 / Cum laude Graduate, St. Peter’s College, NJ
1981 / Danesino Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research
1981 / Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities

EXTRAMURAL SUPPORT

2016-2017
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015
2014-2015 / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories: “Strategic latency implications of global neurotechnology research and development (unrestricted research award and visiting fellowship)
Global Engagement- International Collaborative Grant, Georgetown University: “When in Roam” -Transnational patients: Practical and ethical implications for medical practices and health promotions policy”.
Thync Biotechnologies Research Award: Neuroethical issues in para-clinical, direct-to-consumer, and do-it-yourself domains of transcranial electrical stimulation (unrestricted research and educational support grant)
Auswahl Fellowship: Neuroengineering and Neuroethics (Bavarian State Endowment for Sciences and Humanities: Munich University of Applied Sciences): Development of a senior undergraduate and graduate-level educational and research program in neurotechnology and neuroethics
Childrens’ Hospitals and Clinics Foundation: Working from the neuroscience of pediatric pain to programs of practical neuroethics of pediatric pain research, education and practice – a pilot study and programmatic development.
2012-2013 / Lockheed Martin Research Award. Assessment of neurocognitive science and technology trends for medicine and human performance enablement.
2012-2013 / Federal Emergency Management Agency. Toward development of ethical structure and functions for CBRNE disaster management systems.
2011-2012 / JW Fulbright Visiting Senior Professorship: Support for research and lecturing in neurosciences, neurotechnology and neuroethics at the Ludwig Maximilians’ Universität, Munich, Germany.
2010-2012 / Office of Naval Research: Support for National Neuroethics’ Legal and Social Issues NELSI) Conference addressing neuroscience and technology in national defense applications.
2011 / Equipoise Corporation and Foundation: Bio-engineering, clinical and ethical aspects
of the development and use of integrative bio-kinetic upper extremity neuroprosthetics.
2010-2011 / BioTechnology Futures’ Program: Program development addressing the role and possible uses of neuro-, nano- and geno-science in shaping human futures, and technical and ethical implications, issues and trajectories.
2009-2011 / Nour Foundation: Research program: Toward reconciling neuroscience, neurotechnology, neuroethics, and the nature of the human and human condition.
2009 / Military Medical Research and Materiel Command/Dept of Defense: Human performance optimization: Use of biotechnology and ethics of research and
applications.
2008-2011 / Office of Naval Research: Brain injury disease management initiative; to evaluate manifestations of brain injury (trauma and stroke) as components of a neuropsychiatric spectrum, and to propose and explore new and novel technological interfacing for assessment and rehabilitation therapeutics.
2007-2009 / Laurance S. Rockefeller Trust Award: Development/administration of a Center/Program in Brain, Mind, and Healing Research, to advance basic science studies, medical education and integrative research in neurosciences and neuroethics.
2007-2009 / CTNS-STARS Planning Grant: Genetics, neuroscience, neurotechnology and the nature of being: A dialectical, naturalistic approach that seeks to preserve the notion of transcendence.
2007 / CIRCLE Grant, Georgetown University Medical Center: Curricular development to support use of technologies in palliative care education.
2005-2007 / Hunt-Travis Foundation Grant: Neuroethics of integrative pain medicine.
2004-2005 / American Psychological Association Visiting Fellowship: Harvard Medical School MIT/MGH Advanced Training Institute in Biomedical Neuroimaging.
2003 / US Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: A multi-site, cohort study of outcomes and mechanisms of integrative medical approaches to chronic lumbar spinal pain.
2002 / Department of Defense Academic/Clinical Center Development Award: Development of an inter-disciplinary program of comprehensive integrative medicine for occupational health needs in combat aviators and support personnel.
2002 / Pharmacia Scientific Relations’ Grant: Utility of the novel COX-II inhibitor valdecoxib vs therapeutic modalities against uncomplicated musculoskeletal pain.
2002 / NCK Step-Grant: Differential efficacy of exercise-based neural rehabilitation in neuropathic pain patients.
1997 / Texas Bankers Association: Programmatic development for graduate telemedical education in a pluralistic medical community structure.
1991 / Immunom Research Corp. Collaborative Award: Effects of acute nociceptive and thermal stress upon 5-HT-neuroimmunologic axes in developing rats.
1991 / Citizen Ambassador Program Award: Scientific delegation for 1992 joint USA-USSR collaborative study of pain research and therapy.
1991 / McDonnell-Douglas Scientific Support Award: Effects of the 5-HT1A agonist buspirone on parameters of human physiology and pharmacology under conditions of Gz and altitude stress.
1990 / Whitehall Foundation Award: Patterns and mechanisms of 5-HT3 receptor regulation in vivo and in vitro.
1990 / Bristol-Myers/Squib Scientific Relations Grant: 5-HT1A and NE alpha receptor plasticity following repetitive buspirone and gepirone treatment.
1990 / Drake University Research Award: Pharmacology of 5-HT3 receptor-mediated nociception/analgesia in neonatal rats.
1990 / ADRIA-Pharmitalia Investigative Grant: Patterns and substrates of analgesia produced by S and R isomers of novel 5-HT3 antagonists ADR-851 and ADR-882 in rodents.
1989 / Bristol-Myers Research Support Award: Patterns and putative neuropharmacologic mechanisms of buspirone-induced analgesia.
1989 / Sandoz Pre-clinical Research Award: Profile, substrates and cellular effects of calcitonin analgesia in rats.
1988 / Alexander von Humboldt Award: Electrophysiologic effects of iontophoretically applied peptides on nocisponsive neurons in the spinal cord of neonatal rats.
1986 / German Academic Exchange (DAAD) Award: Electrophysiologic correlates of opioid receptor-linked c-AMP activation in identified nociceptive neurons in rat spinal cord.
1986 / NIEHS Post-doctoral Training Fellowship: Pharmacology and neurotoxicology of serotonin (5-HT1c) receptors.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (243)

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (134)

Deeb W, Giordano J, Rossi PJ, Mogilner AY, Gunduz A, Judy JW, Klassen BT, Butson CR, Van Horne C, Deny D, et al. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: A Review of Emerging Issues and Technologies. Front Integr Neurosci (2016).

Bikson M, Paneri B, Giordano J. The off-label use, utility and potential value of tDCS in the clinical care of particular neuropsychiatric conditions. J Law Biosci, 1-5 (2016).

Calabrese V, Giordano J, Signorile A, Ontario ML, Castorina S, De Pasquale C, Eckert G, Calabrese EJ. Major pathogenic mechanisms in vascular dementia: Roles for cellular stress response and hormesis in neuroprotection. J Neurosci Res 94(12):1588-1603 (2016).

Giordano J, Becker K, Shook JR. On the “neuroscience of ethics” – Approaching the neuroethical literature as a rational discourse on putative neural processes of moral cognition and behavior.

Neurol Neuromed 1(6): 32-36 (2016).

Calabrese V, Giordano J, Ruggieri M, Berritta D, Trovato A, Ontario ML, Bianchini R, Calabrese EJ. Hormesis, cellular stress response and redox homeostasis in autism spectrum disorders. J Neurosci Res 94(12): 1488-1498 (2016)

Giordano J. The value of patient benefit: Considerations of framing contingencies to guide the ethical use of DBS – a case analysis. Camb Q Health Care Ethics – Clin Neuroethics 25(4): 755-758.

Martin A, Becker K, Darragh M, Giordano J. A four part working bibliography of neuroethics: Part 3 – “The ethics of neuroscience”. Phil Ethics Humanities in Med 11 (2); (2016).

Giordano J. Toward an operational neuroethical risk analysis and mitigation paradigm for emerging neuroscience and technology (neuroS/T). Exp Neurol (2016).

Giordano J. The neuroweapons threat. Bull Atomic Sci 72(3): 1-4 (2016).

Shook JR, Giordano J. Moral enhancement? Acknowledging limitations of neurotechnology and morality. AJOB-Neuroscience 7(2): 118-120 (2016).

Shats K, Brindley T, Giordano J. Don’t ask a neuroscientist about phases of the moon: Applying appropriate evidence law to the use of neuroscience in the courtroom. Camb Q Health Care Ethics – Clin Neuroethics 25(4) : 712-725 (2016).

Rossi PJ, Giordano J, Walter BL, Okun MS. Ethical considerations of broadcasting awake brain stimulation surgery: Re-igniting a debate. Brain Stim (2016).

Herrera-Ferrá K, Giordano J. Re-classifying recurrent violent behavior? Considerations, caveats and neuroethical concerns for psychiatry and social engagement. Acta Psychopathol 2(1): 32-39 (2016).

Armon E, Kohls NB, Giordano J. On the viability of neurotechnology and mind-body

methods in pediatric mental health: perspectives on integrating new tools to complement old techniques. Eur J Integ Med 8(2): 137-140 (2016).

Shook JR, Giordano J. Neuroethics beyond normal. Performance enablement and self-transformative technologies. Camb Q Health Care Ethics – Neuroethics Now. 25: 121-140 (2016).

Rossi PJ, Gunduz A, Judy J, Wilson L, Machado A, Giordano J, et al. Proceedings of the Third Annual Deep Brain Stimulation Think Tank: A review of emerging issues and technologies. Front Neurosci 10(1): 119-145 (2015).

Giordano J, Shook JR. Minding brain science in medicine: On the need for neuroethical engagement for guidance of neuroscience in clinical contexts. Ethics Biol Engineer Med 6(1-2): 37-42 (2015).