James Giordano, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Director

in addition to his role as Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies, Dr. Giordano holds faculty appointment as the Samueli-Rockefeller Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Neurosciences, and Scholar in Residence at the Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. As well, he is American Academy of Pain Medicine National Visiting Professor of Neuroscience and Ethics, at the Messer-Racz Center for Pain Research and Therapeutics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

Prof. Giordano's research has focused upon neurochemical and anatomical substrates of neuropathic pain, and clinical applications of the development and use of new and novel analgesic drugs and biotechnologies. His current work addresses the neuroethics of pain, suffering and sentience, and examines how new developments in neuroscience and neurotechnology inform and sustain an evolving philosophy and ethics of mind and medicine.

He is the author of over 100 peer reviewed publications in neuroscience, pain medicine, and ethics; recent books include, Neuroethics: Scientific, Philosophical, and Ethical Perspectives (with Bert Gordijn; Cambridge University Press), Maldynia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Illness of Chronic Pain (Taylor-Francis- Informa); Pain Medicine: Philosophy, Ethics, and Policy (with Mark Boswell; Linton Atlantic Press); and Chronic Pain: Complementary and Alternative Approaches (with Wayne Jonas, Jones and Bartlett Press). Prof. Giordano holds a number of senior editorial positions, including Associate Editor of the journal Neuroethics, Associate Editor, Technology; Neuroscience and Ethics Section Editor (and formerly Deputy Editor-in-Chief) Pain Physician, and Neuroscience and Bioethics Section Editor, Forschende Komplementarmedizin.
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