CMDA Podcasts

by Christian Medical & Dental Associations®

Dr. Tiffany Schatz had built a successful surgical career and a comfortable life in the United States when God began calling her family to serve in Israel. In this episode of Faith in Healthcare, she joins host Dr. Mike Chupp to share what it's been like to follow that calling, care for patients through seasons of uncertainty, and discover that God's faithfulness is often most evident when the future feels anything but certain. Her story is a reminder that when we follow God's leading, He is faithful to meet us every step of the way.

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Mike Chupp, MD shares about Standing Strong when tempted and to always Guard Your Heart.

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Wes Ehrhart shares his personal story and about how Psalm 88 can be interpreted thru emojis.

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Various staff from CMDA share about the recent ICMDA World Congress in South Korea.

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Dr. Alwyn Rapose and Dr. Marjorie Rapose join host Dr. Mike Chupp and co-host Dr. Bill Griffin to talk about caring for patients as whole persons, addressing spiritual needs alongside caring for patients' physical health. Alwyn, an infectious disease physician, and Marjorie, a general dentist, began their careers in India before building their practices in Massachusetts.

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Davis Melin sits down with host Bill Reichart to talk about what leadership looks like when you are still in training and don’t yet have the title, experience, or authority you wish you had. Davis shares how trainees can lead from the middle of the team by first learning to lead themselves well, by honoring authority without becoming passive, and by speaking truth with grace when something needs to be said.

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Dr. David Ciesla, a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma, created a pediatric dental residency program at OU School of Dentistry and is working to duplicate his efforts in Kampala, Uganda.

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Brick Lantz, MD shares about how sex is biblically defined for humans as we are the Imago Dei.

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What does it take to build one of the most advanced cardiac surgery centers in East Africa — from a napkin sketch to a 400,000-square-foot hospital treating hundreds of open-heart patients a year? In this episode of Faith in Healthcare, host Dr. Mike Chupp sits down with two of his closest friends and former colleagues, Dr. Russ White and Dr. Carol Spears, both veteran missionary surgeons at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya. Together they helped launch Tenwek's general surgery residency nearly 30 years ago — and have now returned to lead its brand-new Cardiothoracic Center.

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Bill Griffin, DDS shares about how the Gospel can be offensive to believers and offers ways to help them get past that to come into a more Biblically correct understanding of life.