C. Ben Mitchell, PhD

C. Ben Mitchell is director of The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and associate professor of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois, just north of Chicago.

He received his doctorate in Philosophy with a concentration in Medical Ethics (with honors) from the University of Tennessee in 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.

He has done additional study in genetics for nonscientists 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.

He is also a consultant with the Center for Genetics & Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University. He is codirector for Biotechnology Policy and Fellow of the Council for Biotechnology Policy in Washington, D.C., as well as a Fellow of the Institute for Biotechnology and a Human Future at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent School of Law.

He is a widely published author and currently a member of the Templeton Oxford Summer Symposium on Religion and Science for which he is working on a volume on the emerging biotechnologies and their impact on our understanding of what it means to be human. He is editor of the journal Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics.

In addition to his academic work, Mitchell also consults on matters of public policy and has given testimonies before policymaking groups, including the U.S. House of Representatives, the Institutes of Medicine, and the Illinois Senate. He has published in major news media, including the Washington Post. He is also interviewed regularly on radio and television, having appeared on National Public Radio, Fox News, MSNBC, and others.