Annual Educational Conference

Schedule

Tentative Schedule of Topics and Speakers

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

7:00 P.M. Evening of Reflection: Fr. Derek Lappe

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28

Session I - Professor Josef Seifert, Ph.D.

Part I: Christian Anthropology

Part II: Connecting a Proper Anthropology with Proper Medical Practice

Part III: Respecting Dignity of Man in Human Research: How a Wrong Anthropology Affects Medical Research

Session II - Topics in Medical Research

Steven W. Mosher (Population Research Institute), "'Reproductive Health Care,' the 'Demographic Imperative,' and the Real Health Needs of Women in the Developing Countries"

Session II - Breakout

Theresa Deisher, Ph.D., Drug Discovery/Devopment/Production

Hugh Owen (Kolby Institute), Impact of Darwinian Theory on Medical Research

Speaker TBD

White Mass of St. Luke, Most Rev. Robert F. Vasa, D.D.

Archbishop's Reception

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

Session III - Peter Kreeft, Ph.D.

Part I: Why a Christian Anthropology Makes a Difference

Part II: The Synthesis of Modern Personalism with Traditional Thomistic Metaphysics

Rev. John Ehrich, S.T.L., The Theology of a Christian Anthropology

Lunch Address Reverend Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D., Reaching the Scientific Mind: Proofs of the Existence of God

Session IV - Topics in Clinical Practice

TBD, The Impact of Scientific Misinformation on Clinical Medicine

Allen Shewmon, M.D., Defining Death

Session IV Breakout

Theresa Deisher, Ph.D., Vaccines

Mary Martin, M.D., Natural Family Planning

Susan Baars, M.A., Psychology & Thomistic Philosophy

CMA General Assembly

Special Event: Dale Ahlquist and Chuck Chalberg, An Evening with G. K. Chesterton

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

Session V - Topics in Medical/Hospital Business, Reverend Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.,

Part I: Ethical Leadership

Part II: Ethical Leadership

Session V - Breakout

TBD, What is Catholic Health Care?

Gerald McShane, M.D., Physician Leadership in Catholic Healthcare

John Brehany, Ph.D., The Role of Ethicist in Catholic Healthcare

Session VI - Faith and Reason

Prof Stratford Caldecott, Faith and Reason in the Thought of John Paul II

Mark Miravalle, S.T.D., How Our Lady in Her Divine and Spiritual Maternity Speaks on the Nature of Man, Suffering and Co-redemtion, and the Ontological Importance of Marian Consecration

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett, D.D., St James Cathedral

Banquet Speaker: Thomas Woods, Ph.D., The Church and Science

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009

8:30 A.M. Traveler's Mass