Psychedelic Ethics and Social Justice Course

HANNAH C. MCLANE, MD, MA, MPH

Hannah is a neuroscientist, physician, and psychotherapist. She attended Brown Medical School, and holds Master’s degrees in Public Health (Harvard) and Speech Pathology (Temple). Her residencies were in Neurology and Occupational Medicine (UPenn). In 2010 she founded the nonprofit SoundMind Project, and currently conducts research at the VA Medical Center in Philadelphia which focuses on cognitive diversity, PTSD, and emerging alternative therapies for mental health issues. She also has a passion for bioethics, especially distributive justice.

DOMINIC SISTI, PHD 

Dominic Sisti, PhD, is director of the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care and assistant professor in the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He has a particular interest in the ethical issues involved in psychedelic therapy. He has been working with MAPS to create ethical guidelines for their MDMA-assisted-psychotherapy protocol, and hosted the first Psychedelic Ethics gathering for MAPS in the fall of 2018 at the University of Pennsylvania

DANIEL WIKLER, PHD

Professor Dan Wikler is the Director of the Harvard Program in Ethics and Health (PEH). His current research interests are ethical issues in population and international health, including the allocation of health resources. Prior to his time at Harvard, he served as the first Staff Ethicist for the World Health Organization. He also served on the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine in Washington, D.C., as Staff Philosopher for Biomedical and Behavioral Research. He has a particular interest in using simplified dilemmas to highlight the ethical issues involved in global health decision-making.

MICHELLE JOY, MD

Michelle is a psychiatrist who works with forensic, emergency, and outpatient (particularly schizophrenia) populations at the Philadelphia VA and various court rooms, jails, and prisons. She obtained her ScB in Cognitive Neuroscience a Brown University, her medical degree at Yale University, and general and forensic psychiatry trainings at the University of Pennsylvania. Her academic work is at the intersection of psychiatry, ethics, and the law and also writes for general audiences.