January 15-16, 2004
Meeting Agenda

Wyndham Hotel
1400 M Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
(202) 429-1700

9:00 a.m.	Session 1: Stem Cells: Council’s Report to the President Release of Monitoring Stem Cell Research: A Report of the President’s Council on Bioethics
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Session 2: Biotechnology and Public Policy Staff Working Paper, "U.S. Public Policy and the Biotechnologies that Touch the Beginnings of Human Life: Draft Recommendations, Revised"
12:15 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Session 3: Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry, and Neuroethics: An Overview Robert Michels, M.D., Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Session 4: Neuroscience and Neuroethics: Reward and Decision Jonathan D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, and Director, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University
5:15 pm	Adjournment

8:30 am	Session 5: Toward a “Richer Bioethics”: Council’s Report to the President Release of Being Human: Readings from the President's Council on Bioethics Panel Discussion: The Role of the Humanities in Bioethics Bruce Cole, Ph.D., Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities Paul Cantor, Ph.D., Professor, Department of English, University of Virginia Edmund Pellegrino, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Session 6: Discussion of the Council’s Future Work Staff Working Paper, “The Council’s Second Term: Agenda Options”
11:30 am	Session 7: Public Comments
12:30 pm	Adjournment