Judy Illes

Title
Senior Research Scholar

Department
Department of Medicine & Department of Radiology

Research Interests
Biomedical Ethics in neurosciences, neuroimaging and medical Imaging

Email
illes@stanford.edu

Phone
(650) 724-6393

Fax
(650) 725-6131

Address
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
701 Welch Rd., A-1116
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Mail code: 5748

Research Description
Through the integrated effort of scholars, physicians and scientists in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, the Departments of Medicine and Radiology, and other SUMC and Stanford Departments, we are building a new program dedicated to biomedical ethics in the neurosciences and medical imaging. As a launch point, the first subset of issues we are studying are related to a range of ethical issues associated with neuroimaging in research and in clinical pediatric and adult neuroimaging practice. For example, we are surveying neuroimaging research laboratories that use fMRI in order to understand the issues and dilemmas they face when detecting incidental brain abnormalities. We are also studying the emergence and implications of in utero and neonatal MR, as well as the market place for consumer-driven neuroimaging. Studies are also planned in the areas of bioethics and addiction, and bioethical issues in the development of new biologic markers for imaging CNS disorders such as stroke, and in cancer imaging, such as the use of MRI for screening for women at high risk for breast cancer. Ê

Illes, J. (Ed.) Biomedical Ethics Challenges in Neuroimaging. Brain and Cognition, Academic Press. In preparation.

Illes, J. and Atlas S. (Eds.) Ethical Issues in MR Imaging. Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. In preparation.

Golby, A., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Illes, J., Desmond, J. (In press) Functional MRI of Memory in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Journal of Neurosurgery.

Dunnick, R., Chew, F., Mattrey, R., Illes, J. (In press) Radiology Research: Challenge to the Faculty, Academic Radiology.

Illes, J., Francis, W., Desmond, G.H., Gabrieli, J.E., Glover, Poldrack, R., Lee, C.J., Wagner, A.D. (1999) Convergent Cortical Representation of Semantic Processing in Bilinguals. Brain and Language. 70 (3), pp. 347-363.

Illes, J. (1999) The Strategic Grant Seeker: Conceptualizing Fundable Research in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Mahwah, NJ.

Areas of Study
Biomedical ethics
"neuroethics"
fMRI and other neuroimaging modalities
medical imaging
cancer screeing