Annual Educational Conference

Schedule

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

8:00 PM Evening of Reflection, Rev. Derek J Lappe

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28

7:00 AM Rosary and Confession
7:30 AM Registration Begins
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast; Perpetual Adoration Begins
8:30 AM Welcome and Invocation

Session I – Theoretical Foundations -- Professor Josef Seifert, Ph.D.

8:45 AM 

• Part I: Christian Anthropology
• Part II: Connecting a Proper Anthropology with Proper Medical Practice

10:30 AM Coffee Break, please visit our exhibiters

10:45 AM Session I – Theoretical Foundations -- Professor Josef Seifert, Ph.D. (continued)

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

12:00 PM Lunch: Round Table Discussions

Session II – Topics in Medical Practice and Research

1:15 PM Wesley J. Smith, Esq., Forced Consensus: The Abolition of Conscience and Its Impact on the Science and Practice of Medicine

2:15 PM Steven W. Mosher, “Reproductive Health Care,” the “Demographic Imperative,” and the Real Health Needs of Women in the Developing Countries

3:15 PM Coffee Break, please visit our exhibiters

3:30 PM Session II – Breakout

• Theresa A. Deisher, Ph.D., How Drug Discovery, Development, and Production Violate Conscience Rights
• Hugh Owen, The Impact of Darwinian Theory on Medical Research
• David Persing, M.D., Ph.D., Politically Incorrect Science: The Immunosuppressive Effects of Hormonal Contraception
• Jan R. Hemstad, M.D., The Integral Research of Professors James Brown and Erik Odeblad

5:30 PM White Mass, Most Rev. Robert F. Vasa, D.D., Celebrant

7:30 PM Archbishop’s Reception

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29

6:45 AM Rosary and Confession
7:15 AM Mass
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM Morning Remarks

Session III – Theoretical Foundations -- Peter J. Kreeft, Ph.D.

8:45 AM

• Part I: Why a Christian Anthropology Makes a Difference
• Part II: The Synthesis of Modern Personalism with Traditional Thomistic Metaphysics

10:45 AM Coffee Break, please visit our exhibiters

11:00 AM Rev. John Ehrich, S.T.L., Anthropology and Sacred Liturgy

12:30 PM Lunch and Address: Rev. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D., Reaching the Scientific Mind: Proofs of the Existence of God

Session IV – Topics in Medical Practice and Research

2:00 PM D. Alan Shewmon, M.D., Defining Death

3:00 PM D. Scott Henderson, Ph.D., Death and Donation

4:00 PM Coffee Break, please visit our exhibiters

4:15 PM Session IV – Breakout

• Theresa A. Deisher, Ph.D., Vaccine Production and Human Tissue Cell Lines
• Susan M. Baars, M.A., Psychology & Thomistic Philosophy
• Mary Martin, M.D., The Billings Ovulation Method Chart: An Algorithm for Differentiating Between the Three Forms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

4:15 PM CMA General Assembly and Business Meeting

8:00 PM Special Event: Dale Ahlquist and Chuck Chalberg, An Evening with G. K. Chesterton, Featuring Exquisite Northwest Desserts and Wines

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30

6:45 AM Rosary and Confession
7:15 AM Mass
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM Morning Remarks

Session V – Topics in Medical Administration & Leadership-- Rev. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.

8:45 AM

• Ethical Leadership: Part I
• Ethical Leadership: Part II
  

10:45 AM Coffee Break, please visit our exhibiters

11:00 AM Session V – Breakout

• John F. Brehany, Ph.D., S.T.L., Ethical Leadership in Catholic Health Care
• Gene Diamond, J.D., Administrative Leadership in Catholic Health Care: Preserving, Protecting, and Defending the Identity of the Roman Catholic Hospital in the Middle of a Culture War
• Gerald J. McShane, M.D., Physician Leadership in Catholic Health Care
• R. Steven White, M.D., Defining Catholic Health Care: Vocation and Mission

12:30 PM Linacre Award Luncheon

Session VI – Faith and Reason

1:30 PM Stratford Caldecott, M.A., Faith, Reason, and the Healing of Healing: The Medical Implications of Fides et Ratio

3:00 PM Coffee Break, please visit our exhibiters

3:15 PM Mark I. Miravalle, S.T.D., How Our Lady in Her Divine and Spiritual Maternity Speaks on the Nature of Man, Suffering, and Co-Redemption, and the Ontological Importance of Marian Consecration

5:30 PM Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Archbishop Alexander J. Brunett, D.D., St. James Cathedral

7:00 PM Reception, Banquet, and Evening Address, Thomas E. Woods Jr., Ph.D., The Church and Science

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009

8:00 AM Traveler’s Mass