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June 19, 2024 Webinar #24 Dr Rob Waller - Perfectionism in Medicine
Recorded on 17 September 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Rob Waller
Dr Rob Waller is a Consultant Psychiatrist based in Scotland with over 20 years experience. He grew up in London, studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and then studied postgraduate psychiatry in Yorkshire. He has been a Consultant Psychiatrist for almost 15 years, including two years spent working overseas in New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and holds postgraduate qualifications in Teaching and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh. He has spoken widely at both church and academic events on mental health and spirituality. He is able to speak on a number of topics including the role of mental health services, the use of medication and therapy and how the brain works.
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To find out more about Rob's work visit https://www.mindandsoulfoundation.org
57 min
June 18, 2024 Webinar #25: Prof John Wyatt - Artificial Intelligence & the future of healthcare
Recorded on 24 September 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Wyatt
John Wyatt is Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, University College London, a Senior Researcher at the Faraday Institute, Cambridge and President of the UK Christian Medical Fellowship.
He has a clinical background as a paediatrician caring for sick and premature infants and also a medical scientist researching into the prevention of brain injury in newborn babies.
He has always been interested in ethical dilemmas raised by advances in medical technology and has frequently engaged in public and professional consultations and debates from the perspective of the Christian faith.
His book Matters of Life and Death – human dilemmas in the light of the Christian faith has been translated into more than ten languages. His most recent book is Transforming Friendship. He and his wife Celia are longstanding members of All Souls Church in London.
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To find out more about Prof Wyatt's work visit https://johnwyatt.com

55 min
June 17, 2024 Webinar #26: Dr Trevor Stammers - The ethics of genomic editing
Recorded on 1 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Trevor Stammers
Dr Trevor Stammers was Editor of The New Bioethics journal. He was formerly Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Law at St Mary's University and was a family doctor for 27 years before going into academia. His latest book is
The Ethics of Global Organ Acquisition.
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57 min
June 14, 2024 Webinar #27 Prof John Whitehall - Managing Gender Dysphoria in Children
Recorded on 8 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Whitehall
In recent years, the issue of transgender identity in children has leapt from the periphery of public consciousness to centre stage of a cultural drama played out in the media, courts, schools, hospitals, families, and in the minds and bodies of children. It is a kind of utopian religion with committed believers.
Join us as we discuss the facts - how common is gender dysphoria, what are associated mental health problems, what is the risk of self-harm and suicide, what is the treatment and what is appropriate medical intervention?

Professor John Whitehall is the chair of CMDF Australia and Professor of Paediatrics at Western Sydney University. His 50 year career began at Sydney University, continued through developing countries and western Sydney as a general paediatrician, then focussed on neonatology before coming to WSU.
For 15 years he was Director of Neonatal Intensive Care in Townsville, North Queensland, which included ante-natal diagnosis, resuscitation, management and transportation of premature, dysmorphic and sick neonates, many of whom were Indigenous.
In Townsville, he was deeply involved in the establishment of the medical school at James Cook University and, for 20 years, taught modules of Tropical Paediatrics in the Masters programme in the School of Public Health. In recent years, he has also worked as a consultant physician in PNG, Sri Lanka and Madagascar. Currently, he teaches, leads research and has duties in general paediatrics.
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58 min
June 13, 2024 Webinar #202 Dr Chris Jenkins - The blessing of unanswered prayer
Recorded on 13 June 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Alex Bolek chairs a webinar with Dr Chris Jenkins
The idea of unanswered prayer being a blessing may seem like a contradiction of terms. We feel we are blessed when our requests are answered, when we receive what we ask for and think we need.
The truth is, however, that there are needs in our lives we don’t know about and a lack of understanding of important truths that God wants to address and the only way to do it is through unanswered prayer. Actually, delayed answer to prayer is more accurate even though at the time it feels like unanswered prayer. Today we will look at one reason why our prayers may be “unanswered.”
Chris has been a Christian for five decades. Before going into family medicine, he worked with a missionary organization starting adult literacy ministries in Africa and Asia in order to help Christians read the Bible for themselves and to also give them a tool to reach their non-Christian illiterate neighbors by teaching them to read while sharing the gospel with them.
He now works in medical education in the US as well as parts of the 10-40 window including the Middle East, Central, South and East Asia and elsewhere. He has been learning spiritual resilience throughout his Christian journey and finds that in every stage of life he must lean harder on the Lord, dig deeper into his Word, and pray for the spiritual resources needed to make it through trials with faith, integrity, love, and obedience intact.
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57 min
June 12, 2024 Webinar #28 Prof Andrew Tomkins - Corruption in Healthcare
Recorded on 15 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof Andrew Tomkins
"Corruption, an undeniable reality in the health sector, is arguably the most serious ethical crisis in medicine today... Corruption traps millions of people in poverty, perpetuates the existing inequalities in income and health, drains the available resources undermines people’s access to healthcare, increases the costs of patient care and, by setting up a vicious cycle, contributes to ill health and suffering." - Subrata Chattopadhyay
This webinar discusses the challenges facing healthcare professionals and what can be done practically to combat injustices in medicine.
After postgraduate training, Andrew worked in a new medical school in Nigeria, establishing new management regimens and collaborative research on the interaction of infection and nutrition in children. After research training in nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Andrew worked in the MRC units in Malumfashi, Nigeria and the Gambia. Subsequently his research team established a range of applied research and training projects in resource poor countries, based at the Centre for International Child Health (now the Institute for Global Health) UCL London. Andrew has assisted UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank & national governments in the development of their child health and nutrition programmes. Andrew worked with Tearfund UK and overseas partners to develop church-based programmes for prevention, treatment & care of disease. He is now “retired” but does not know how to do it and is presently supporting programmes in northern Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Sudan & Zambia.
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56 min
June 11, 2024 Webinar #29 Dr Katherine Welch - The Role of Health Professionals on addressing Human Trafficking
Recorded on 22 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Katherine Welch
This webinar discusses how medical professionals can use their expertise to help lift people out of slavery and into a thriving life.
Katherine Welch, MD, an American physician, has been serving oppressed, trafficked, and exploited people since 2000. Her journey started at a mission hospital on the Thailand-Myanmar border where she first encountered human trafficking through her patients and other colleagues in Thailand. Since then she has worked with the marginalized and oppressed to fight slavery and other injustices in over 20 countries.
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56 min
June 09, 2024 Webinar #30 Dr Vineeth Jaison - Telemedicine - its role beyond COVID
Recorded on 29 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Vineeth Jaison
Hear how medical professionals respond to the challenges of COVID and how we can adjust our practices using technology accordingly.
Dr. Vineeth Jaison is currently working as Associate Professor in Neurology at Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India. He did his undergraduate, post graduate and Neurology training in CMC, Ludhiana. He grew up in a family of missionary doctors and would often visit his maternal uncle Laji Verghese who was Surgeon at Lady Willingdon hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh. He spent two years after graduation in a mission hospital at Robertsganj in Uttar Pradesh. Where he took care of Pediatrics and General Medicine while helping his wife Dr. Preethi Paul manage Obs and Gyne. Doing Ultrasounds for Obstetrics was a part of his routine work. He also spent three months managing the eye OPD with over 100 patients a day.
Often during that time he would consult his seniors for difficult cases in the clinic or admitted in the ward. He also observed the immense capacity for well trained nurses to manage repetitive yet high skilled tasks.
During his DM Neurology training he set up a Physician assistant programme for task shifting highly skilled yet repetitive procedures to address the shortage of doctors. He has worked closely with Dr. Jeyaraj Pandian current Vice President of World Stroke Organisation and has developed a keen interest in Public health.
These laid the foundation for him to see the value in telemedicine now as qualified Neurologist.
Recently he along with his colleagues initiated and implemented an institutional telemedicine programme with over 70 consultants and 30 specialties, which has been a blessing for patients during COVID.
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June 08, 2024 Webinar #31 Dr Keir Thelander - Training Christian Surgeons in Africa
Recorded on 5 November 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Keir Thelander
Hear the inspiring story of PAACS - an organisation that trains and disciples African surgeons to glorify God and provide excellent care to those most in need.
Keir Thelander attended Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at Fairview Hospital in Cleveland, OH, in 2004. After working as a General Surgeon in Cleveland, Keir was led to train and disciple African doctors to become surgeons. Keir’s young family of 4 moved to Bongolo Hospital in Gabon. For 8 years Keir served as the Program Director of the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) surgical residency program as well as the medical director of this 150 bed facility. Recently Dr Thelander has been Team Leader for the over 20 ex-patriots living in Bongolo, while he also worked as the West/Central Africa Director for PAACS. Presently, Keir is the Executive Vice President of PAACS. In this role he oversees their 15 training programs across Africa. Keir’s passions are helping doctors and all people to thrive no matter the circumstances as well as surgical education in cross-cultural contexts.
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54 min
June 07, 2024 Webinar #32 Dr James Paul - Is reality socially constructed?
Recorded on 12 November 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr James Paul
Contemporary sociologists argue that the way we see the world is socially created within cultures. “Girls wear pink and boys wear blue,” for example, is not a universal law but something created within twentieth-century Western culture through discourse around what it means to be male and female.
If reality is socially created, then it can be recreated. But is this true of all of reality?
Can gender, religion, morality, and even our own humanness be shaped and reshaped as we choose?
Dr James Paul is director of the English branch of L’Abri Fellowship and before that he practised as a doctor in London, specialising in hospice care for the terminally ill. Many of the questions raised in his recent book What on Earth Is Heaven? are ones that people have asked him in these settings. He has been a speaker at Word Alive and European Leadership Forum, and regularly addresses university Christian Unions and the Christian Medical Fellowship students' conference, as well as speaking at L'Abri conferences globally.
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57 min