Speakers and Topics

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, a native of San Diego, earned his BA from the University of San Diego, and his STB in Theology, Doctor of Canon Law, from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Having served as Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego and Bishop of Oakland before being appointed the ninth Archbishop of San Francisco, he brings a statewide vision to the mission of CANFP, and has served on the Executive Board since 2009. Archbishop Cordileone is the Chairman of the USCCB Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage

Christopher Kaczor, PhD,  is William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the James Madison Program at Princeton University and is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He graduated from the Honors Program of Boston College and earned a Ph.D. four years later from the University of Notre Dame. He did post-doctoral work in Germany at the University of Cologne as a Federal Chancellor Fellow and returned as a Fulbright Scholar. He has written eleven books, including The Seven Big Myths about Marriage. Dr. Kaczor’s research on issues of ethics, philosophy, and religion has been in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, National Review, NPR, BBC, EWTN, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, MSNBC, TEDx, and The Today Show

Lynn Keenan, MD, President of the CANFP Executive Board, is a Clinical Professor at the UCSF/Fresno Internal Medicine Residency Program, Board Certified in Sleep and Internal Medicine, Certified FertilityCare Medical Consultant,and Vice President of the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine. She earned her BSN at UCLA, her MD at Temple University School of Medicine, and completed her Residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF/Fresno. Dr. Keenan has served on the Executive Board of CANFP since 2004, and as President of CANFP since 2010. 

Sheila St. John, Executive Director of CANFP, has been an advocate for NFP in California since helping found the organization in 1993. She also maintains an active NFP Program in the Monterey Region, having personally instructed over 700 couples in the use of NFP over the last 33 years.

Amie Holmes, MD, has returned to her native California, and opened a NaPro practice at St. Agnes Medical Center, upon completion of a fellowship at the Pope Paul VI Institute in Omaha, NE in the Spring of 2015 . She left her hometown of Torrance CA in 2003 to attend medical school at Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, and completed her OBGYN residency at the West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh, PA and John Peter Smith Hospital in Forth Worth TX.

 Jennifer Roback Morse PhD, is the founder and President of the Ruth Institute — a project of the National Organization for Marriage — which seeks to promote life-long married love to college students by creating an intellectual and social climate favorable to marriage. Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, she is the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World, and Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work, recently reissued in paperback, as Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village. Dr. Morse served as a Research Fellow for Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester, and taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University. Her public policy articles have appeared in Forbes, Policy Review,The American Enterprise, Fortune, Reason, the Wall Street Journal, Vital Speeches, and Religion and Liberty.

Michaelene Fredenburg is an author and frequent speaker at universities and events. She has written numerous articles about reproductive grief and loss and has participated in over 100 radio and television programs. Michaelene has also advocated before United States House and Senate Committee hearings about the need for studies that evaluate the emotional and physical impact of all pregnancy outcomes and has presented to physician delegates from Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan through the State Department’s International Visitors Program

Mary Davenport, MD, FACOG, is an Obstetrician Gynecologist in private practice in El Sobrante, CA. She graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of California, San Diego. A Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, she has an NFP-only medical practice and is a Medical Consultant in Natural Family Planning. She serves on the advisory board member for CANFP and Board of the American Association of Pro-Life OBGyn’s.

George Delgado, MD, FAAFP is the medical director of Culture of Life Family Health Care, the medical director of Abortion Pill Reversal and the associate medical director of The Elizabeth Hospice. Dr. Delgado is an NFP Medical Consultant trained in NaProTechnology and completed the one-year Certification Program in Health Care Ethics with the National Catholic Bioethics Center. Dr. Delgado published the first peer-reviewed article in the medical literature on the reversal of mifepristone (RU 486) using progesterone.

George Delgado, M.D., FAAFP es el director medico de Culture of Life Family Health Care, el director medico de Abortion Pill Reversal y el director medico asociado de  The Elizabeth Hospice.  El Doctor Delgado es un consultor medico de planificacion natural familiar y especialista en NaProTECHNOLOGY y el recibio el certificado del programa en bioetica de el National Catholic Bioethics Center. El Doctor Delgado publico el primer articulo medico sobre la inversion de la pildora abortiva utilizando progesterona.