L. Johnson MA, PhD

L. Syd M Johnson, Ph.D. is a philosopher/bioethicist/neuroethics, and Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities. She has a BA in Film from Bard College, and an MA and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University at Albany, State University of New York. Dr. Johnson is a member of the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics Working Group, and an associate editor for the journal Neuroethics.

Dr. Johnson teaches Clinical Bioethics, Patients to Populations: Ethics, Law and Population Health, and Health Care Ethics. Her current research in neuroethics focuses on ethical issues related to brain injuries, including sport-related neurotrauma, brain death, and disorders of consciousness. Her work is situated at the intersection of ethics, medicine, and law, and she has published on disorders of consciousness, sport-related concussion and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, reproductive ethics, research ethics, and animal ethics. Her interest in all things with brains/minds includes every kind of critter, zombie, and robot.