March 16, 2019 | New Orleans, LA | Converging Roads

ROLAND MILLARE, STD
Vice President of Curriculum and Director of Clergy Initiatives

Dr. Roland Millare, a native Houstonian, serves as Vice President of Curriculum and Director of Clergy Initiatives for the St. John Paul II Foundation (Houston, TX). Dr. Millare served as a member of the Theology Department at St. John XXIII College Preparatory (Katy, TX) for over 15 years. He received a BA in Theology from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. He has a MA in Theological Studies (with a concentration in Moral Theology) from the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College (Alexandria, VA) and a Licentiate (STL) and Doctorate in Sacred Theology (STD) in Dogmatic Theology (with a specialization in Sacramental Theology) from the University of St. Mary of the Lake (Mundelein, IL). Dr. Millare also serves as an adjunct professor of theology for permanent deacon candidates, seminarians, undergraduate and graduate students at the University of St. Thomas, St. Mary’s Seminary, the Diocese of Fort Worth and the University of Dallas. He has published various theological articles for Logos, Antiphon, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, and the Heythrop Journal. He has published the book, A Living Sacrifice: Liturgy and Eschatology in Joseph Ratzinger (Emmaus Academic, 2022). Dr. Millare has also contributed an article to a forthcoming lexicon on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger (Ignatius Press). Dr. Millare is a member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Academy of Catholic Theology, and the Society for Catholic Liturgy. Dr. Millare lives with his beautiful wife Veronica and their three children.

WILLIAM L. TOFFLER, MD
Professor Emeritus, Family Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University

Dr. William Toffler is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University where he practiced the full scope of family medicine and taught medical students and residents for more than 34 years. He is co-founder and National Director of Physicians for Compassionate Care Education Foundation (PCCEF), a non-profit organization that promotes compassionate care for severely ill patients without sanctioning or assisting their suicide. PCCEF physicians affirm an ethic based on the principle that all human life is inherently of value and that the physician's roles are to heal illness, alleviate suffering, and provide comfort for the sick and dying. He is committed to defending the long-standing, medical prohibition against doing harm. He has been a member of the Physicians Resource Council at Focus on the Family for more than 20 years. He has frequently invited to speak about medical ethical issues at both national and international conferences and on US television and radio including the NPR, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, as well as international media in Canada, Australia, the UK and Japan.

ARLAND K. NICHOLS
President, St. John Paul II Foundation

Arland K. Nichols is president and founder of the St. John Paul II Foundation. Early in his career, as an educator and non-profit executive, he became a popular speaker and successful writer while he established the groundwork for the initiatives that would become the St. John Paul II Foundation. Arland launched the St. John Paul II Foundation in 2014 and he is author of the 4th edition of the Handbook on Critical Life Issues published in 2024 by the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Arland earned a B.A. in philosophy from Texas A&M, an M.Div. in Theology from University of St. Thomas, and pursued doctoral studies in bioethics at Regina Apostolorum in Rome. With the generous support of his wife, Cindy, and their ten children, Arland is blessed to lead the St. John Paul II Foundation as it serves, educates, and supports medical professionals, married couples, and clergy.

NATALIE KING, MD, MA
Palliative Medicine Physician, Intermountain Healthcare

Dr. Natalie King is a palliative medicine physician who specializes in caring for patients with serious illness and nearing the end of life. She is originally from Indiana and attended the University of Notre Dame. While in medical school at Tulane University, she founded the Catholic Medical Association Student Section. She completed internal medicine residency at the University of Utah and palliative medicine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. After fellowship she worked as a palliative medicine physician in Denver, Colorado, helping lead her hospital’s ethics committee and teach trainees. She completed a master’s degree in bioethics from The Ohio State University, partnering with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to improve education around palliative care for Catholic laity. She has organized a forum for the Catholic Medical Association on end-of-life issues. She is passionate about education and advocacy about palliative medicine and ethical issues relating to serious illness and the end-of-life and is set to have a book released by Ave Maria Press in fall of 2024. She lives with her husband and daughter in Salt Lake City, Utah, and works at Intermountain Healthcare.

REV. TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK, PhD
Director of Education, The National Catholic Bioethics Center

Fr. Tad currently serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia and directs the Center's National Catholic Certification Program in Health Care Ethics. He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts. He writes and speaks widely on bioethics and medical ethics. Since 2001, he has given several hundred presentations and invited lectures, and participated in debates and roundtables on contemporary bioethics throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He has taught bioethics classes for seminarians at St. John's Seminary in Boston, Pope St. John XXIII Seminary in Weston, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Connecticut. As an undergraduate Fr. Tad earned degrees in philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and chemistry, and did laboratory research on hormonal regulation of the immune response. He later earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University, where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transporters which are expressed in the brain. He worked for several years as a molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Father Tad studied for 5 years in Rome at both the Gregorian University and the Lateran University, where he did advanced work in dogmatic theology and in bioethics, examining the question of delayed ensoulment of the human embryo. He has testified before members of the Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Virginia and Oregon State Legislatures during deliberations over stem cell research and cloning. He writes a monthly newspaper column on bioethics that is nationally syndicated to more than 40 diocesan newspapers in the U.S., and which has also been carried by newspapers in England, Poland and Australia. He has done commentaries for numerous media outlets, including NBC Nightly News, CNN International, ABC World News Tonight, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, and the New York Times.

DORINDA C. BORDLEE, Esq
Vice President, Senior Counsel of Bioethics Defense Fund

Dorinda C. Bordlee, Esq. is vice president and senior counsel of Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF), a legal and educational organization that she co-founded in 2005 with president and general counsel Nikolas T. Nikas. The mission of BDF is to create winning arguments for human dignity based on the natural law to benefit students, lawmakers, courts and citizens across the United States and abroad. Dorinda obtained a Juris Doctorate (’90) with Law Review Honors, and B.A. in Finance summa cum laude (’87), both from Loyola University New Orleans. Before dedicating her legal career exclusively to life issues in 1994, Dorinda served as judicial law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, worked for a law firm that specialized in law enforcement civil rights defense, and founded a statewide legal publication, Louisiana Supreme Court Reports. As senior counsel of BDF, Dorinda drafts original legislation for legislatures across the nation and abroad, engages in strategic litigation and amicus briefs at all levels including the U.S. Supreme Court, drafts opinion pieces for national journals, and presents cutting-edge education seminars on the issues of abortion, biotech and reproductive technology, end of life issues and healthcare rights of conscience.

DAMON T. CUDIHY, MD
Obstetrician & Gynecologist, Acadiana Ob/Gyn, Lafeyette, LA

Damon T. Cudihy, M.D., is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Acadiana Ob/Gyn in Lafayette, LA. He is a member of the Catholic Medical Association, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Cudihy received his B.A. from Florida State University and his MD from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He fulfilled his military service obligation as a Field Surgeon during which he volunteered for an overseas deployment in July of 2006. In Iraq, Dr. (Captain) Cudihy served as Battalion Surgeon where his duties included providing medical care to hundreds of Iraqi civilians during various medical missions. Dr. Cudihy completed his specialty training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo affiliated Sisters of Charity Hospital in June 2009. On the national and international level, he has been featured on such outlets as The Station of the Cross Catholic radio, Radio Maria, and EWTN television. Since moving to Louisiana, Dr. Cudihy has testified before the State Legislature regarding various bills touching on the life issues, has served as an expert witness for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals in federal court in defense of abortion regulations, and become a regular guest lecturer at Notre Dame Seminary. Above all else, however, Dr. Cudihy’s most important professional roles are those of husband to his wife, Lauren, of over 17 years (without whom he would not be an Ob/Gyn physician) and as father to their 7 wonderful children–who continually remind him of the generosity and love of God.

7:00 AM	Registration Begins
7:30 AM	Mass
8:30 AM	Prayer & Opening Remarks
8:40 - 9:25 AM	The Dignity of the Person
9:25 - 10:20 AM	Proportionate vs. Disproportionate Means
10:20 - 10:35 AM	Break
10:35 - 11:30 AM	Planning Medical Care with Advanced Directives, DNR, and LaPOST
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Alleviating Suffering through Palliative Care and Pain Management
12:30 - 1:50 PM	Hippocratic Oath Luncheon: Foundations for Freedom and Conscience and Threats to the Right to Serve
1:50 - 2:05 PM	Break
2:05 - 3:05 PM	Hope and Compassion at the Feet of Those Who Suffer
3:05 - 3:25 PM	Break
3:25 - 4:25 PM	Understanding the Cross of Infertility: Medicine, Ethics, Hope, and Joy
4:25 - 5:10 PM	Assisted Suicide, Medical Treatment?: What's Coming and How Should a Catholic Prepare?
5:10 - 6:15 PM	Closing Remarks and Wine & Cheese Reception

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ROLAND MILLARE, STD Vice President of Curriculum and Director of Clergy Initiatives

WILLIAM L. TOFFLER, MD Professor Emeritus, Family Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University

ARLAND K. NICHOLS President, St. John Paul II Foundation

NATALIE KING, MD, MAPalliative Medicine Physician, Intermountain Healthcare

REV. TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK, PhDDirector of Education, The National Catholic Bioethics Center

DORINDA C. BORDLEE, EsqVice President, Senior Counsel of Bioethics Defense Fund

DAMON T. CUDIHY, MD Obstetrician & Gynecologist, Acadiana Ob/Gyn, Lafeyette, LA

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