Take a late winter break and join us in sunny Orlando for the excellent Matthew Bulfin Educational Conference (MBEC), on February 28 – March 2, 2025 (with pre-conference sessions on Feb. 27). MBEC, which AAPLOG co-hosts with the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), brings together pro-life researchers, physicians, mental health and advanced practice professionals, medical students and residents, and policy makers for a medical educational conference covering the most important topics related to life issues. Next year’s conference will feature 25 talks from experts and practitioners of medicine, mental health, and more, surrounding the theme “The Way of Medicine” which focuses on how we return to the purpose of our profession. The conference will be held at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld, a resort located directly across the street from SeaWorld, offering fun opportunities for children and families as well as a much-needed break (for some of us at least!) from the winter weather. Discounted entrance to SeaWorld will be available to attendees.
Here are just three of the talks you can attend at this conference:
Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness (Miriam Grossman, MD) The incidence of gender dysphoria has skyrocketed, along with the medical and surgical interventions that allegedly treat it. Dr. Grossman will discuss the current debate over how to understand the explosion of cases, the comorbidities that accompany them, the risks and benefits of medical treatments, and what psychotherapy with these patients can achieve.
The Way of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Farr Curlin, MD and Christopher Tollefsen, PhD) Curlin and Tollefsen will argue that medical practitioners and OB/GYNs in particular, should recover what they call the Way of Medicine, in which a practitioner’s profession is to act only in ways that are congruent with the patient’s health, objectively understood. The Way of Medicine offers medical practitioners a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist political, institutional, and cultural forces that corrupt obstetrics and gynecology in our time.
Miscarriage: Identifying and Addressing Modifiable Risk Factors (Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA, MSPH) Miscarriage, also referred to as early pregnancy loss, is defined as spontaneous loss of pregnancy prior to 20 weeks’ gestation. With an estimated risk of 15% of clinically confirmed pregnancies ending in miscarriage, it is the most common adverse event in pregnancy, resulting in the loss of more than 500,000 human lives every year. If miscarriage were tracked as a cause of death, it would be the third leading cause of death in the United States, second only to heart disease and cancer. Since miscarriage is so common and it is associated with significant physical and psychological morbidity, it is important to recognize its significance, assess who may be at increased risk for miscarriage, and identify potentially modifiable risk factors that we may address to prevent this devastating tragedy whenever possible. Dr. Duane will present a series of patient cases with a history of miscarriage, who went on to have successful pregnancies after identification and treatment of relatively common modifiable risk factors.
Register for the conference today at conference.aaplog.org. Dues-paying members get a 15% discount off their registration (a discount code was sent to you by email)!
Students and residents can apply for the Joe DeCook scholarship and enter the Honeycutt poster competition. See details on the conference page.
