Decisional Capacity

Christian Carrozzo is a philosopher at the John J. Lynch, MD Center for Ethics and Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Philosophy, George Mason University, where he completed a master's fellowship and was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in Philosophy by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He completed his PhD coursework in philosophy at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has held academic appointments at The George Washington University, American University, and was a Neuroethics Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University. He writes on metaphysical and epistemological issues in the philosophy of mind and neuroscience, including reflection and metacognition, nonconceptual experience, and the ethics of consciousness. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of Hospital Ethics and has served as a specialist reviewer for the U.S. Department of Defense's Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program. He contributes regularly to the American Philosophical Association and the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind.

Elspeth Cameron Ritchie is a forensic psychiatrist with expertise in military and veterans' issues. She has been Chief of Psychiatry at Medstar Washington Hospital Center since 2018. She retired from the U.S. Army in 2010, after holding numerous leadership positions, including Psychiatry Consultant. She trained at Harvard, George Washington, Walter Reed, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and has completed fellowships in both forensic as well as preventive and disaster psychiatry. She is a Professor of Psychiatry at USUHS, Georgetown University, and The George Washington University. An internationally recognized expert, she brings a unique public health approach to the management of disaster and combat mental health issues. She has over 250 publications in the areas of forensics, disaster, suicide, ethics, military combat psychiatry, and women's health issues. Edited volumes include Women at War (OUP, 2015) and Intimacy Post-Injury: Combat Trauma and Sexual Health (OUP, 2016).