The Board of Trustees of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity (CBHD) is pleased to announce that C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D. has been appointed Director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
Dr. Mitchell will also continue to serve as associate professor of bioethics and contemporary culture at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, and as editor of Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics.
In addition, Dr. Mitchell is a Fellow of the Institute for Biotechnology and a Human Future at Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent School of Law, Chicago, Illinois; a consultant with the Center for Genetics & Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University; and a Fellow of The Wilberforce Forum, Reston, Virginia.
He received his doctorate in philosophy with a concentration in medical ethics (with honors) from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. His program included a year-long clinical residency at the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville, Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, and a summer-long residency at the East Tennessee Mental Health Institute.
Dr. Mitchell also studied genetics for non-scientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and has twice been visiting scholar at Green College, the medical college of Oxford University. From 2003-2005, Dr. Mitchell was a member of the Templeton Oxford Summer Symposium on Religion and Science.
A widely published author, Dr. Mitchell has authored or coauthored numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and other pieces. In early 2007, Georgetown University Press will release a significant and highly anticipated new volume entitled Biotechnology & the Human Good, which Dr. Mitchell coauthored with Edmund Pellegrino, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John F. Kilner, and Scott Rae.
In addition to his academic work, Dr. Mitchell regularly consults on matters of public policy. He has given testimonies before policymaking groups including the U. S. House of Representatives, the Institutes of Medicine, and the Illinois Senate. A number of radio, television, and print media outlets regularly interview him. They include National Public Radio, Fox News, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and many others.
