C. Ben Mitchell is associate professor of bioethics and contemporary culture at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Prior to joining the Trinity faculty he taught Christian ethics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and was director of the Clarence Jordan Center. He also serves as bioethics consultant for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the moral concerns, public policy, and religious liberty agency of the Southern Baptist Convention with offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Washington, DC. He is Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity and serves as editor of the Center's journal, Ethics and Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics.

Dr. Mitchell received the Ph.D. degree in philosophy with a concentration in medical ethics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His dissertation was entitled: Patenting Life: An Examination of Some Ethical Implications of Biopatents. He is also a graduate of Mississippi State University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. During the Spring of 2001 he was visiting scholar at Green College, the medical college at Oxford University.

He has done clinical ethics rotations at a number of institutions including the University of Tennessee Medical Center, the East Tennessee Mental Health Institute, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center and has completed the intensive in genetics for non-scientists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.

He has written widely in bioethics and publishes regularly in professional journals and the popular press. He has served as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association. Futhermore, he is general editor of the New International Dictionary of Bioethics published by Paternoster Press in 2002. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Wilberforce Forum, Prison Fellowship's research arm located in Reston, Virginia and is a Fellow of the Carl F. H. Henry Institute at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is also on the Board of Advisors for the University Faculty for Life at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, has given testimony to several committees of Congress, and is often cited by the national press.

His areas of special interest include end-of-life decision making, the ethical implications of the new genetics, and the ethics of biotechnology.