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February 26-28, 2027

The Strength and Beauty of Life‑Affirming Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

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Venue

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About the Conference

Our national medical education conference addresses topics related to life-affirming and pro-family medical practice, bioethics and legal updates that impact your practice.  In addition to a review of the latest medical evidence related to these issues, attendees will have the opportunity to meet and interact with researchers, speakers, and fellow physicians who know the challenges our profession is facing and an give you the information that you need.

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Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Ascension designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 12.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

This activity is awarded 12.25 ANCC contact hour(s).

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Speakers

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Biography

Susan Bane, MD, PhD (aka Dr. PinkGlasses) is the founder and CEO of PinkGlasses Consulting and a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with nearly three decades of clinical experience. She serves as Board Chair of AAPLOG and AAPLOG Action and leads AAPLOG's Special Interest Group for Medical Directors. Through her work, she equips pregnancy center medical directors and clinical teams with practical strategies to strengthen patient care, clinical excellence, and organizational leadership. 

Susan Bane, MD, PhD

Practicing Medicine in a Pregnancy Center

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
Brackney

Biography

Dr. Kerri Brackney is a board-certified ObGyn specialist and Maternal Fetal Medicine sub-specialist. She currently lives and works in Memphis, TN. 

Dr. Brackney received her undergraduate education at Bryan College. She completed medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and ObGyn residency at Penn State Health. After practicing as an ObGyn for eight years, she completed a one-year fellowship in Obstetric Ultrasound at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, followed by a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the combined MetroHealth/University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University program.  

Dr. Brackney is on the board of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists, leading its Maternal Fetal Medicine subsection. She is a lifetime member of the Christian Medical and Dental Association, serving as the secretary/treasurer for the ObGyn section. She served for three years with a Christian community health center in Memphis and enjoys providing high risk obstetrical care for the underserved. She volunteers for a pregnancy resource center, reading obstetric ultrasound. She has a passion for both domestic and foreign missions and longs to see an American culture in which induced abortion is unthinkable. 

Kerri Brackney, MD

Previable PPROM Study

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Dr. Chapa is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker and author in Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is a graduate of UT Southwestern Medical School with specialty training at Parkland Hospital. He is a Board-Certified Obstetrician & Gynecologist and serves as clinical associate professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Bryan-College Station, Texas. Since 2016, he has served as the OBGYN Clerkship Director (BCS Campus) at that site. In 2020 Dr.Chapa was voted “Educator of the Year” by the Texas A&M College of Medicine Campus and has received the recognition of Distinguished Clinical Educator by the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators (2022). Nationally, he has served on the ACOG Board of Directors (2024-25) and on the ACOG Obstetrical Care Consensus Committee (2022-25). His podcast, Clinical Pearls, has gained a national and international audience. Lastly, he has served as an invited speaker in South Africa, Israel, the European Union, The Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Chile, Columbia, and Canada due to his passion for evidence-based learning. 

Hector Chapa, MD, FACOG

Evolution of cfDNA in Fetal Aneuploidy Screening: From Discovery, to the 2026 Practice Advisory, to the CONFIRM Test

Conscience & Clinical Training: Maintaining Moral Integrity and Exercising Protected Conscientious Objection under ACME and Federal Law

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Dr. Christiansen is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and an advocate for the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. She is the Associate Medical Director for the National Institute of Family & Life Advocates (NIFLA) which equips pregnancy medical clinics with the legal counsel and medical training to provide life-affirming ultrasounds through its 1,800 affiliates. She also serves as the medical director for a pregnancy center in Maryland, is an Associate Scholar for the Charlotte Lozier Institute, and an adjunct professor at Mount St. Mary’s University and the Maryland and Delaware State Representatives for the Christian Medical & Dental Association. Dr. Christiansen has over 35 years of experience as a clinician, educator, speaker, and writer addressing a variety of forums including legislative bodies and national media outlets on bioethical issues related to the beginning and end of life, pregnancy, abortion, and Hippocratic medicine. Dr. Sandy and her husband Kyle are grateful followers of Jesus Christ and have three amazing sons and daughters-in-law, and four precious grandchildren. 

Sandy Christiansen, MD, FACOG

Ultrasound Best Practices in a Pregnancy Medical Clinic

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Professor Collett is a leading prolife and pro-family lawyer and law professor. Since 2003 she has been Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, MN where she teaches bioethics, constitutional litigation, and property. She has directed the university’s Prolife Center since its inception in 2009.

A nationally prominent speaker and scholar, she is active in attempts to rebuild the Culture of Life. Professor Collett has served as special attorney general for the states of Oklahoma and Kansas, as well as assisting other state attorneys general in defending prolife laws. A member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court, she has represented the governors of Minnesota and North Dakota as amici curiae, as well as the Illinois State Medical Society in defending partial-birth abortion bans. She was counsel of record for 240 women scholars and professionals in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, an amicus brief Justice Alito referenced in the Dobbs majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.

She has testified before committees of the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittees on the Constitution, as well as numerous legislative committees in the states.

Because of her work for prolife causes, Pope Benedict appointed her to a five-year term as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family in 2009, where she was reappointed by Pope Francis to serve from 2014 to 2016 until the Council was dissolved.

In 2022 Professor Collett served as a Fulbright Visiting Specialist at the University of the Andes, Santiago, Chile where she consulted on matters before the Chilean Constitutional Convention and lectured on the importance of constitutional protections for religious liberty and parental rights in education.

She currently serves on the Academic Advisory Committee to the Catholic Bar Association and the Academic Advisory Committee for the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Teresa Collett

The Authority of Parents to Make Medical Decisions for their Children

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Sean Corcoran was told by multiple people that the abortion of his first son didn't affect him because he was a man. But 8 years after the abortion, Sean had failed out of two colleges three times and was at the end of a 7-year methamphetamine addiction, homeless, unemployed, and overdosing in a hotel room. Today, Sean is a retired attorney and CEO of Men for Life, a national pro-life organization focused on ending abortion by calling men off of the sidelines and back into the arena to speak boldly and stand confidently for life, family, and faith. Sean currently lives in Louisiana with his wife, Dr. Michelle Corcoran, and their 2 biological and 3 adopted children. 

Sean Corcoran

Fathers in the Shadows: How Reaching Men Can End Abortion in a Single Generation

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
DH

Biography

Dr. Harrison is a board-certified OB/GYN who received BS and BA in Chemistry and Biochemistry from Michigan State University, MD and residency from Univ. of Michigan. with additional studies in International Medicine at University of Arizona -Tuscon. She served as Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Michigan, then entered private practice with a multispecialty group involved in international medicine. While in private practice she served on community health projects both locally and in Haiti and India. Dr. Harrison then retired from clinical practice to serve in women’s health policy positions, including CEO and subsequently Director of Research for the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and Chair of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. She has testified before the local, state and federal government, and spoken nationally and internationally on mifepristone abortion, hormonal contraceptives, and maternal mortality. 

Donna Harrison, MD

Ethical Considerations in Ending a Pre-viable Pregnancy for Maternal-Fetal Vital Conflict

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Dr. Jim Heid is a board-certified Family Medicine physician with 30 years of clinical experience.  He currently works for Options360 - a life affirming nonprofit women's clinic. He is a founding board member of the American College of Family Medicine (ACFM) and a member of the American Academy of Family Practice (AAFP). He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, and a clinical preceptor for physician assistant students at Northwest University.  He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego; his MD from University of California, Davis; and completed residency at the St Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He has 8 years of experience as an executive leadership coach and incorporates his coaching into patient care and educating healthcare professionals in addition to running a coaching practice. He has participated in several short-term missions to Haiti, Rwanda, Mexico, Honduras and Ecuador. 

Jim Heid, MD

Medical Ethics At The End: A Review and Case Discussions For Students, Residents, and Seasoned Clinicians

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Paul W. Hruz, M.D. Ph.D. is an academic pediatric endocrinologist and tenured physician scientist with faculty appointments in both Pediatrics and Cellular Biology and Physiology.  He received his MD and PhD degrees from the Medical College of Wisconsin.  He completed residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle and fellowship training in pediatric endocrinology at Washington University in St Louis.  Dr. Hruz has over 25 years of clinical experience in caring for children with disorders of sexual development. He has served nationally and internationally as a consultant and scientific expert on medical management of gender dysphoria for academic, judicial, and governmental organizations  He has authored over 65 peer-reviewed manuscripts, scientific reviews and book chapters. Most importantly, together with his wife Anne, he has raised his five children in St Louis. 

Paul Hruz, MD, PhD

Restoration of Health Following Sex-Discordant “Gender Affirming” Medical Interventions

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Patrick Hunter is a general pediatrician in Pensacola, Florida. He holds an appointment as an assistant clinical professor with Florida State University College of Medicine. He has a master’s degree in bioethics from the University of Mary. He is also a member for the Florida Board of Medicine. 

He has been studying gender medicine for close to ten years, attending conferences, collaborating and publishing with concerned clinicians and researchers from all over the world.   

His views are his own, and he does not speak for the State of Florida or its Board of Medicine.   

Patrick Hunter, MD

Medicine’s Greatest Ethical Scandal?

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
Hutzler

Biography

Sean Hutzler, MD

Pro-Life Practice Q&A for Students & Residents

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Dr. Dermot Kearney is a Consultant Cardiologist and Internal Medicine Physician working in the North-East of England since 2003. He obtained his medical degree from UCD (Dublin) in 1989. Following General Medical and Cardiology specialist training in Ireland, Dr. Kearney completed a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology in Leiden and Amsterdam, Netherlands.  

He is a past-President of the Catholic Medical Association (UK) and is the current Treasurer, having joined the organisation in 2008. He helped to establish an Abortion Pill Reversal program in the UK in 2020. 

Dermot Kearney, MD, MRCPI

The Management of High Risk Cardiac Conditions in Pregnancy - the Ethical Approach

Pro-Life Practice Q&A for Students & Residents

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Dr. Joe Malone, a physiologist, taught for many years at Middle Tennessee State University and has guest lectured at Vanderbilt, Princeton, University of Miami, University of Alabama, and Catholic University of America as well as other major universities. He taught classes that ranged from Health and Wellness to Fitness Education for the Adult. Dr. Joe created a new course in 2012 called Women’s Personal Conditioning along with a sorority wellness program in which he not only taught standard wellness but also the importance of sexual integrity as foundational to wellness. Dr. Malone is becoming known as The Sexual Integrity Scientist. He was named Greek Faculty Member of the year in 2010 and 2016 for his wellness work with sororities. Additionally, Dr. Malone has worked with fraternities to promote greater sexual integrity among the young men. He holds a Ph.D. in Health and Human Performance with a minor in neuropsychology and a specialization in women’s health and sexual wellness. 

Joe Malone PhD, SRAS, CPT, LWMC, CFE

Sexual Integrity, the Cornerstone of Health

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Abdu Murray offers the credibility of the gospel message as a speaker and writer with Embrace the Truth. He has authored several books including Saving Truth, Grand Central Question, Apocalypse Later, More than a White Man’s Religion, and his latest, Fake ID: How A.I. and Identity Ideology Are Collapsing Reality-And What to Do About It. For most of his life, Abdu was a proud Muslim until a nine-year historical, philosophical, theological, and scientific investigation pointed him to the Christian faith. 

Abdu has spoken to diverse international audiences and has participated in debates and dialogues across the globe. 

Abdu holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. 

Abdu lives in the Detroit, Michigan area with his wife and their three children. 

Abdu Murray

The Algorithm Will See You Now: AI and Its Impact on Medical Practice

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

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Biography

Dr. Nuthalapaty is a board-certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist and Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) physician. Selected out of high school for Northwestern University's Honors Program in Medical Education — a seven-year combined BS/MD program — he earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering and his medical degree at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL). He completed his Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, PA), where he served as Chief Resident, and his MFM Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL). With more than 20 years of experience as clinical faculty and an educational leader in undergraduate and graduate medical education, he has held professorial appointments at multiple institutions, twice served as a founding OB/GYN residency program director, and earned numerous national teaching honors. He chairs the Christian Medical and Dental Association's Commission on Mentoring and Discipleship and serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Issues in Law and Medicine. He currently practices Maternal-Fetal Medicine on the faculty of the University of Florida College of Medicine. 

Francis Nuthalapaty, MD

The Words We Use Matter: Discussing a Prenatal Diagnosis with a Family

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Jeff is a longtime educator who has taught and coached students from 2nd grade through the post-graduate level.  He obtained his B.A. in History from Truman State University in 1998 and M.A. in Educational Administration from Lindenwood University in 2005.  In 2014 he earned a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.  That same year Jeff joined the Vitae Foundation, a nonprofit organization which conducts emotional research and creates lifesaving messaging.  He has also worked as the Executive Director of the National Consortium of Pro-Women’s Healthcare Centers and served at Marygrove, a ministry of St. Louis Catholic Charities.  He is a member of St. Alban Roe parish in Wildwood, MO as well as a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus.  Jeff’s most important roles in life are disciple of Jesus Christ, husband to Amy and father to daughters Lauren and Kendall. 

Jeffrey Pauls, PhD

Market Research to Help Men Regain a Voice for Life

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

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Biography

Robin Pierucci, MD

The Words We Use Matter: Discussing a Prenatal Diagnosis with a Family

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Monica Snyder

Supporting Secular People Through Reproductive Grief

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Xavier Symons is Director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics at the Australian Catholic University. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University. Xavier is a widely published bioethicist and is the author of Why Conscience Matters: A Defence of Conscientious Objection in Healthcare (Routledge 2022).  

Xavier Symons, PhD

Why Conscience Matters: A Theory of Conscience and Its Relevance to Conscientious Objection in Medicine

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Jean M. Twenge, Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 190 scientific publications and seven books, including 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World and Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future. She holds a BA and MA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She writes the Generation Tech Substack.

Jean Twenge, PhD

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

Abstract
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Biography

Quentin Van Meter, MD, FCP, Immediate Past President and longtime member of the American College of Pediatricians, graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1969 and received his M.D. in 1973 from the Medical College of Virginia. While in medical school, he entered the Navy through the Health Professions Scholarship and went on to a pediatric internship and residency at the Naval Hospital in Oakland. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology in 1980 at Johns Hopkins. He completed 20 years of service in the Navy Medical Corps, retiring as a Captain in 1991. His final tour of duty was back at the Naval Hospital in Oakland where he was Pediatric Department Chairman and director of the Pediatric residency program. After the Navy, he moved to the Atlanta area to join a multi-specialty private practice, providing general pediatric and pediatric endocrine services, as he had in the Navy. He has maintained academic affiliations throughout his career, at LSU, UC San Diego, UC San Francisco, Emory, and Morehouse Schools of Medicine. Since 2003, he has been practicing full-time pediatric endocrinology in private practice and is actively involved in clinical research with growth hormone, novel insulins, and GnRH agonists. 

He has a long history of advocacy for children through the American Academy of Pediatrics where he served as Chairman of the Uniformed Services West Chapter. Once he moved to Georgia, he became active in that AAP Chapter as Legislative Chairman and Newsletter Editor.  He wants to continue his advocacy role with the College as an organization that works for children and their families by strengthening the role of the family. 

Dr. Van Meter has spoken around the world on the subject of transgender children.  His experience began at Johns Hopkins in the 1970’s with Dr. John Money and he has advocated for comprehensive mental health evaluation and extensive counseling of these suffering children to help them resolve their abundant undercurrent psychological morbidities. 

He has been married to his wife Kathy for 55 years and has four adult children and seven grandchildren  

Quentin Van Meter, MD, FCP

Restoration of Health Following Sex-Discordant “Gender Affirming” Medical Interventions

Objectives

  • Discuss the importance of sexual integrity leading to marriage in human history and relatedly how our society has been affected by the sexual revolution starting in the 1970s
  • Define the biologically-based male and female sex differences in brain biochemistry and anatomy and how they complicate 21st-century relationships
  • Describe the physiological traits that show that monogamy is the optimal relationship form for humans
Objectives

Abstract

An unbiased appraisal of the research literature shows that a significant number of women do suffer negative psychological consequences of abortion. These risks should be included in the information disclosed by the physician during the consent process. Furthermore, these potential risks are among the reasons that the informed consent process for abortion should be consistent and comprehensive―and should allow time for the patient to consider her options carefully. As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in Gonzales v. Carhart, “It seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained. Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow” (IV.A). As we will see, evidence from clinical and social science research supports this conclusion. Some women who obtain abortions subsequently suffer psychologically complex and distressing consequences, and in many of these cases, psychological harms are pronounced and measurable. Identifiable medical, psychological, and social factors in the patient’s history can also help predict which patients may be at elevated risk.

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Pre-Conference Events

Thursday, February 25

Several options will be announced, free for conference registrants.

Medical Voices Masterclass

11:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Medical Voices Masterclass

Class is full - Join Waitlist Here

AAPLOG offers two professional development programs designed to help medical professionals contribute their expertise outside of a healthcare setting. These free single-session courses are held multiple times throughout the year, both at in-person locations across the country and virtually, usually on the same day and at the same venue, so you can choose to sign up for both training sessions in a single day if you are interested and available.

Here is more information about these courses.

Life-Affirming Medical Voices Training
Science-Based Communication for Tough Conversations in Every Situation
4 hours

At this training, national media & policy experts will equip you with the practical tools to utilize your medical training and expertise to defend life-affirming medicine in any setting. From interviews with journalists to testimony before state legislatures to conversations with colleagues who disagree — when they ask, you’ll have the facts. You’ll be able to make the case, back it with science, and speak it anywhere.

Legal Training
4 hours

Led by national legal experts, our legal training program equips medical professionals with the skills to successfully navigate a deposition and deliver clear, confident, and credible testimony. Master this process and present your expertise with authority and clarity.

You will be asked to submit your CV/resume.

Join Waitlist Here

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The Foundational FACTS of the Female Cycle

12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
FACTS mini training

Master the facts about the fifth vital sign – the female cycle – in this timely workshop led by Dr. Marguerite Duane and leading experts in fertility awareness-based methods and restorative reproductive medicine. Learn how cycle charts can be used as diagnostic tools. Become a first trimester care expert. Engage in small group case studies discussing common concerns in women’s health.

Lunch will not be provided.

 

 

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Ready, Set, Go: Facilitating Obstetrical Training in Africa through the Safe Passages Program

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
“Ready, Set, Go”: Facilitating Safe Passages Training in Africa

Safe Passages is a participatory, simulation-based training program addressing the leading causes of maternal and perinatal mortality and severe morbidity in Africa including postpartum hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, sepsis and infection, obstructed labor, newborn asphyxia and neonatal sepsis.

The workshop will help prepare medical volunteers interested in facilitating obstetrical training in hospitals and health centers in Africa. Training and management protocols are contextualized to the resource limitations that often exist in rural hospitals and health centers in Africa. 

Upon completion of the workshop, participants should be better prepared to facilitate training workshops for physicians, midwives and nurses using a participatory approach, simulation models and a life-affirming ethos consistent with African religious and cultural values.

 

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Research Bootcamp

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Research Bootcamp
Want to enhance your understanding of the academic literature? Want to empower yourself with skills to be a peer reviewer? If so, join us for an interactive and informative research boot camp that will focus on:
 
  • The nuts and bolts of analyzing a research article.
  • The basics of common statistical tools and methods. 
  • The importance of pro-life voices in peer review and how to get started.
  • Real time to practice newly learned skills.
Learn More

Networking Reception with Cash Bar

6:30 PM

Schedule

A detailed agenda will be sent to registered attendees before the conference.

What have others said about our conference?

I was so thankful to be able to attend MBEC as a DeCook scholar this past year. As a military resident caring for pregnant service members and their families, I am excited to be able to share the pro-life message and provide life affirming care to patients around the world. In the military many women and families face unique challenges and fears with pregnancy, and MBEC provided me with resources and friendships that will help me in this journey in caring for my patients and advocating for the pro-life cause.
Resident in training
2026 DeCook Scholar
The sessions were very encouraging, and the speakers were all excellent. I am so impressed with all that was covered and how exceptional all the plenary speakers and breakouts were. I left feeling equipped and knowledgeable.
Ashton Reed
Class of 2027, 2024 DeCook Scholar, First Time Attendee
This was the best medical conference I have been to in 30 years!! Each session was relevant and networking with other practitioners was beneficial.
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Treasa Stritzinger, RN
First Time Attendee 2026
This conference provides cutting edge, pro-life medical updates that you won't find anywhere else.
George Delgado, MD
Speaker & Conference Attendee
It is so refreshing to be with physicians who recognize they are caring for two patients - a mother and a baby - and help women safely deliver high risk or crisis pregnancies.
Kathleen Raviele, MD
Conference Attendee
There were a variety of speakers and relevant topics. Excellent all around!! My practice partner and I still talk about what we learned all the time.
Christie Mileur, MD
First Time Conference Attendee, 2025
The speakers were great, and I enjoyed time to talk with old and new friends/colleagues.
Catherine Stark, MD
2025 Conference Attendee
MBEC 2026 was encouraging, inspirational, and challenging. I met like-minded healthcare professionals who encouraged me in my medical training and challenged me to continue living out my pro-life values. I left feeling inspired to be bold in the fight for life.
Medical Student
DeCook Scholar 2026
I felt the quality of the speakers was exemplary. It was well organized. The subject matter was well rounded and interesting.
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Suzanne Slayton-Milam, MD
First Time Attendee, 2026
I learned a tremendous amount from the MBEC conference, but what has made the largest impact on me was knowing that I am not alone in this mission to protect women and children. Everytime I feel like I am alone in this fight as a future physician, I remember all the other students and mentors that I met and I no longer feel alone. Personally, I have faced much adversity since the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and so having the support of those who attended the conference has given me the strength to continue advocating for life.
Sadie Daugereaux, OMM Scholar, PCOM South Georgia
2022 DeCook Scholar

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The annual AAPLOG Matthew Bulfin Educational Conference will be held Feb. 27-March 1, 2026 in downtown Seattle, WA.  Pro-life medical professionals of all specialties, students/residents, PRCs and other organizations, and others are welcome to attend.  The opening session begins at 8:30AM on Friday, Feb. 27.   Check in will begin on Thursday morning, Feb. 26 for pre-conference events, and all-day Fri., Feb. 27.  AAPLOG, ACFM, and ACPeds dues-paying members receive a discount registration fee. Please email info@aaplog.org if you need the code. Register here by Feb. 12, 2026.
 

All sessions will be held at The Sheraton Grand Seattle. Please refer to the Venue section for further information. The conference rate is $219 (King or Double) + 15.7% tax + 2.3% per room per night tourism tax (current rates as of this post).  Please reserve your room during the registration process to get the conference rate.  

Parking information:
There is valet parking ($78) available at the hotel and nearby cheaper garages downtown. The hotel has an agreement with the U.S. Bank Center Garage (1465 6th Ave., across the street) for hotel guests ($45/24 hrs. with some in/out privileges).  There are multiple parking garages close by for $17-$19 all day rates with the “early bird” discount (in before 9:30am).

Your conference registration fee includes the following meals and breaks: Thursday night reception (cash bar), Friday lunch and afternoon snack; Saturday morning snack, lunch, cocktail reception (cash bar), and dinner. There will be coffee, tea, and water available throughout Friday and Saturday, and on Sunday morning. 

Medical students and residents are encouraged to attend. We have a DeCook scholarship program that covers most of the conference and travel costs for students who apply and are accepted.  There is also a special registration rate for non-scholarship students/residents.   

We are currently raising funds to help reach our goal of bringing 100 medical students and residents to the conference through our scholarship program.  You can help make this a reality and change the future of medicine by donating here for our scholarships. 

The Sheraton Grand is 13.7 miles from the Seattle-Tacoma, WA airport (SEATAC). The hotel does not offer an airport shuttle; however, taxis, Uber, and Lyft are readily available. The hotel is also near the Westlake subway Station.

The conference is closed to the media. 

If you need to cancel your registration, please email LBaesel@helmsbriscoe.com.  

If you decide to completely cancel your conference registration, we will refund your conference fee if you notify us by February 2, 2026.  

If you completely cancel your registration after February 2 to February 17, 2026, we will issue a refund for half of the conference fee.  

If you completely cancel your registration after February 17, 2026, then we cannot refund your conference fee because we will have incurred costs related to the conference.  

Please check back later this summer for opportunities to sponsor or exhibit at MBEC 2027!  You may also contact us at info@aaplog.org.

The 2026 MBEC is officially approved for CME credit!  This activity has been planned and implemented by Ascension and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Ascension is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
 
The Credit Designation Statement
Ascension designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 12.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This activity is awarded 12.25 ANCC contact hour(s).  See brochure
AAPLOG and ACPeds dues paying members receive free CME.  Please email us at info@aaplog.org for your promo code. The fee for others is $300 for physicians and $120 for non-physicians, Register here.

AAPLOG is working with PRÆLIO, a professional security and risk management firm, to plan and oversee security for the conference. Professional security will be present during conference sessions and key events to ensure attendee safety, protect privacy, and prevent disruption. All conference spaces are private, access limited to credentialed attendees, and policies regarding access, conduct, and safety will be actively enforced.

Registrants check in will begin Fri, Feb. 10 at 9am through 5pm. 

We will use the Cvent event app (optional) and send details to all registrants a week before the conference. Throughout the conference, you can use the app to find the updated schedule and the following:

  • Real-time reminders and announcements about conference programming
  • Profiles of exhibitors, sponsors, and fellow attendees, as well as a chat feature allowing you to connect with them
  • Polling
  • A discussion forum allowing you to share thoughts with all conference attendees
  • And more!

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AAPLOG
1025 W. Rudisill Blvd.Box 28
Fort Wayne, IN 46807
info@aaplog.org
(202) 230-0997
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