2025
Annual
conference
June 26-28, 2025

Discounts

• Students attending the conference for the first-time can get $25 off. Register as a student and use code FTSD25.
• New Members attending the conference for the First Time attend for $149. Register as a member and use code FTM149.
• Register your spouse for $49 with a fully paid registration. Register your spouse as a non-member and use code BYS49.

CME Credit

The AAFP has reviewed Living in the Biotech Century: The First 25 Years and deemed it acceptable for up to 15.00 Live AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 06/26/2025 to 06/28/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.

For a list of all sessions approved for CME credit please click here.
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We are 25 years into the Biotech Century. Have the predictions, opportunities, and threats that many in the late 1990s wrote about come to pass? From eliminating disease to the development of new technologies and moving toward the Singularity, how have the predictions made in the 1990s fared?

Which opportunities and threats have been realized? What unforeseen issues have arisen? How does the knowledge we have now inform how we view the predictions that were made then? And, perhaps most importantly, how can human beings flourish over the rest of the Biotech Century?  

The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity invites you to join us for our 32nd annual conference, Living in the Biotech Century: The First 25 Years, on the campus of Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. We will assess the fruits of the Biotech Century and delve into the pressing issues before us from a Judeo-Christian, Hippocratic point of view.  

Confirmed speakers include:

• Nigel M. de S. Cameron, President Emeritus, Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
  
• Maureen Condic, Distinguished Ordinary Professor (ad interim)/University Ombudsman and Mediator, Catholic University of America
  
• Paul Dassow, President, American College of Family Medicine
• Ewan Goligher, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
• Brent Waters, Emeritus Jerre and Mary Joy Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
  

In addition, workshops and paper sessions will explore a wide spectrum of issues from traditional and emerging bioethical topics.

The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity’s annual conference is the leading forum for engaging in Christian bioethics, providing opportunities for equipping and educating students, professionals, clergy, and lay people, as well as professional development credit, academic engagement, and networking for academic researchers, policymakers, educators, clinicians, thought leaders, and students across a variety of disciplines and professional contexts.

This conference will be available in person, online, or on-demand. There is no wrong way to attend!
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