The 2007 Annual Meeting featured a day-long colloquium, "A Medical Bioethics Colloquium: An Orthodox Consensus on Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Sponsored by the Orthodox Church in America’s Department of Christian Witness and Service." The annual Florovsky Lecture was delivered by His Eminence, Metropolian NIKOLAOS (Hatzinikolaou), entitle “Orthodox Bioethics: From an Ethics of Dilemmas to a Theology of Transcendence.”