The annual Matthew Bulfin Educational Conference (MBEC) is coming up February 28 – March 2, 2025 (with pre-conference sessions on Feb. 27) in sunny Orlando, Florida. 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. This year’s conference will feature 25 talks from experts and practitioners of medicine, mental health, and more, surrounding the theme “The Way of Medicine.” 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.
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.
Fetal Surgery for Gastroschisis: The Next Frontier (Luc Joyeux, MD, PhD) Dr. Joyeux will walk our audience through his translational research journey from the animal experiments to the implementation of our phase-1 clinical trial on fetoscopic repair of complex gastroschisis at his Texas Children’s Fetal Center in Houston, TX.
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). All others can take advantage of our early bird discount until November 2. Students and residents can apply for the Joe DeCook scholarship and enter the Honeycutt poster competition. See details on the conference page.
