Martha J. Farah, PhD, Academic Director
Dr. Martha Farah is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and founding Director of Penn’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Her current research focuses on the effects of childhood poverty on brain development, and ethical issues emerging from advances in the neuroscience of cognition and emotion. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 6 books, including the forthcoming Neuroethics: An Introduction with Readings to be published by MIT Press.

Joe Powers, PhD, Executive Director
Dr. Joe Powers is a psychologist who has spent the majority of his career in the business of psychiatry and mental health. For the past 8 years, he has worked in a variety of business, strategy, and marketing roles within the pharmaceutical industry, where he has developed an expertise in product launches. He has been involved in launching psychotropics and psychiatric services around the world in therapeutic areas including schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, Alzheimers’, and anxiety disorders. He has also worked for and developed non-profit organizations aimed at improving patient care.

Anjan Chatterjee, MD, Associate Director
Dr. Anjan Chatterjee is a practicing neurologist and Professor in the Department of Neurology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on human cognition, especially language, aesthetics, and visual-spatial cognition. In his 2004 Neurology article on “cosmetic neurology” he sounded the first call for physicians to consider the ethics of brain enhancement, and has continued as a leader on the clinical side of neuroethics. Dr. Chatterjee is a member of the Committee on Ethics, Law and Humanities Committee of the American Academy of Neurology.

Stephen Morse, JD, PhD, Associate Director
Dr. Stephen Morse is the Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law and a Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a renowned expert in criminal and mental health law, whose work emphasizes individual responsibility in criminal and civil law. Professionally trained in both law and psychology at Harvard, Morse has written for law reviews, journals of psychology and psychiatry and edited collections, and he has contributed numerous op-ed articles. He is currently Co-Director of the MacArthur Foundation Project on Law and Neuroscience.