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June 06, 2024 Webinar #201: Prof John Wyatt - AI in Medicine: A Christian perspective
Recorded on 6 June 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Wyatt

Artificial intelligence is everywhere and is seems as though science fiction fantasies are starting to come true. It’s hard to separate the hype from reality but analysts predict that deploying AI in healthcare could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year and dramatically reduce healthcare costs in developed countries.
At the same time many countries with less established health infrastructure are starting to see the remarkable potential of bespoke AI systems. What are the ethical, societal and spiritual issues which lie behind these extraordinary developments and how can Christians prepare for the coming wave of AI innovation and disruption?
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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For more from Prof John visit https://johnwyatt.com
57 min
June 01, 2024 Webinar #35 Dr Dave Stevens - Strengthening Mission Hospitals
Recorded on 3 December 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Dave Stevens
Dr Stevens holds degrees from Asbury College and the University of Louisville School of Medicine and is board certified in family medicine. He earned a master’s degree in bioethics from Trinity International University in 2002 and has served on the boards of Asbury University and World Gospel Mission. He is a fellow of the Biotechnology Policy Council of the Wilberforce Forum and helped found the National Embryo Donation Center. He and his wife
Jody have 3 children and 10 grandchildren, all of who are involved in domestic or international healthcare ministry. He is the author of Jesus, MD, Beyond Medicine and co-author of Leadership Proverbs and Servant Leadership. As untold thousands of people who have heard him preach could attest, Dave is a gifted storyteller and a powerful Christian communicator with a passion for evangelism and a deep understanding and respect for the integrity of God’s Word.
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51 min
June 01, 2024 Webinar #36: Dr Richard Winter - Coping with anxiety in a dangerous world
Recorded on 10 December 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Richard Winter
Dr Winter grew up in England and trained in medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and then in psychiatry in Bristol. (He is a past member of The Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK.) He was also a counsellor, teacher and leader at the English L’Abri and associate pastor of a church in Hampshire for some years before moving to the US in 1992 to head the counselling program at Covenant Seminary where he is now Professor Emeritus.
Dr. Winter’s research interests have been at the interface of psychology, medicine, and theology. He is the author of The Roots of Sorrow: Reflections on Depression and Hope (2001); Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment:
Rediscovering Passion and Wonder (2002); Perfecting Ourselves to Death: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Perils of Perfectionism (2005); and When Life Goes Dark: Finding Hope in the Midst of Depression (2012). He continues practicing therapy privately and with the Global Counseling Network. www.globalcounselingnetwork.com
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54 min
May 31, 2024 Webinar #38: Dr Gene Rudd - Restoring Joy
Recorded on 17 December 2020 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Gene Rudd
How can Christian healthcare workers best find joy in their vocations? Is your life marked by joy? Why is it that most of our neighbours in the western world (including our healthcare colleagues) report being dissatisfied/unhappy? We will look at the underlying causes and the solution.
Dr. Gene Rudd served for 25 years as Senior Vice President of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations – Unite States. He continues to serve as volunteer staff and advisor.
He specialized in obstetrics/gynecology and has experience in teaching, maternal-fetal medicine and rural healthcare. Dr. Rudd garnered several awards including the Gorgas Medal, presented by the U.S. government for the most significant achievement in preventive medicine. He conducted international programs with Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission including the formation
of the Christian Medical Mission of Russia and the rehabilitation of the Central Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda during the genocide of 1994. He co-authored Practice by the Book, a book that teaches doctors to practice and live their lives by biblical principles.
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58 min
May 30, 2024 Webinar #200 Dr Andy Bannister - Answering Muslim friends and colleagues
Recorded on 30 May 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Alex Bolek chairs a webinar with Dr Andy Bannister
Muslims are wonderfully easy people with whom to start conversations about faith. But when we try and share our faith with Muslim friends and colleagues, how do we answer the questions or objections they raise about Christianity?
In this webinar, Dr Andy Bannister will draw on his 25 years experience of conversations with Muslims to help us understand the common questions Muslims ask, why ask them, and how we can share the gospel through them.

Dr. Andy Bannister is the Director of Solas, an evangelism and training organisation based in Scotland (but covering the whole of the UK). A highly in demand speaker, Andy speaks and teaches throughout the UK, Europe, Canada, the USA, and the wider world. From universities to churches, business forums to TV and radio, he regularly addresses audiences of both Christians and those of all faiths and none on issues relating to faith, culture, politics and society.
Andy holds a PhD in Islamic studies and has taught extensively at universities across Canada, the USA, the UK and further afield on both Islam and philosophy. He is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at Melbourne School of Theology and is also Adjunct Faculty at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.
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1 hr 4 min
May 30, 2024 Webinar #39: Dr Trevor Stammers - Organ trafficking, tourism and trading
Recorded on 7 January 2021 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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56 min
May 23, 2024 Webinar #199: Dr Yaw Perbi - Africa to the Rest: from mission field to mission force
Recorded on 23 May 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Yaw Perbi
Africa is the most Christian continent in the world today. This talk will celebrate this momentous occasion in world history tracing God’s goodness to Africa in scripture and throughout history, clearly demonstrating that Africa and Africans have always been central to God's missional purposes, not an afterthought. We will unveil the teeming potentials as well as teething problems of African mission. This African lead in global Christianity is only going to increase into the foreseeable future, thus these projections call for preparation in order to produce the quantity and quality of African Christians who will be faithful carriers of the authentic gospel to all nations!

Dr Perbi practised medicine in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire and is an author-publisher, preacher and international speaker. He has authored numerous articles, manuals and about 20 books including the highly-acclaimed Africa to the Rest on which this talk is based. Yaw’s goal is to ‘finish the finishables’ by proclaiming God’s word to ‘all nations’. For four years, he served as pastor of Montreal Chinese Alliance Grace Church, Canada. He also served as president of International Student Ministries Canada for eight years and is the Co-founder for the Pan African International Students (PAIS), which envisions a movement of Christian International Students leaving Africa to other continents as a mission force. Yaw and his wife, Anyele, run Perbi Cubs, an EdTech providing literacy programs to thousands of children. They have seven children.

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56 min
May 16, 2024 Webinar #198 Rev Dr Stephen Ko – Healing and embodied faith
Recorded on 16 May 2024 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Rev Dr Stephen Ko
In 1 Corinthians 6:19 we are reminded that our 'bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit'. Christ incarnate is deity in flesh, and His spirit is incarnate in us. Living and worshiping incarnationally is consciously embracing what the Creator has designed in His image, from the finest, microscopic details to vital organs within our body, enabling the Holy Spirit to work in us.
Weaving together insights from faith, science, and medicine, this webinar will reveal the marvellous ways in which our physical and spiritual health can prepare us to become instruments of God's healing in the world.

Reverend Stephen Ko, MD, MA, MPH, MDiv, serves as Senior Pastor of New York Chinese Alliance Church in NYC. Dr. Ko’s healthcare specialties include pediatrics, preventive medicine and public health. He is currently Adjunct Professor at Alliance Theological Seminary.
Previously, he served as a Global Health Professor at Boston University and a Medical Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has worked extensively in Africa and Southeast Asia on diseases of epidemic potential, helping low and low-middle income countries implement their national public health programs. Writing at the intersection of faith, medicine, and public health is a particular passion.
His latest book is Faith Embodied, on how to live and worship incarnationally and glorify God with our bodies.
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For more from Rev Stephen, including his book Faith Embodied, visit https://www.drstephenko.com
57 min
May 13, 2024 Webinar #40 Karen Rispin - Resources for disability in healthcare mission
Recorded on 14 January 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Karen Rispin
Many faith-based health providers intend to follow in the footsteps of Jesus when they reach out to heal. If you look carefully, most of those Jesus healed were people living with chronic disabilities. Yet this population is often neglected by many faith-based health providers.
The World Health Organization sees disability as one of the fastest growing health problems. People are living longer; diabetes is rampant, and children born with disabilities are more likely to live. Families dealing with disability often feel that this is due to a curse or shameful behaviour. This sparks spiritual anxiety and leads to questions.
Karen Rispin is Project Manager, Assistive Technology Catalyst Project with IDEAS and BethanyKids. She is passionate about reaching out with true hope by catalyzing links to resources to facilitate wheelchair services and care for those with disabilities at faith based hospitals. A missionary kid who grew up in Kenya, she has led research teams, published on appropriate assistive technology for low resource areas and serves on international committees. Karen’s desire is that those with disabilities receive appropriate provision of AT along with medical, social and spiritual care.
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55 min
May 11, 2024 Webinar #41 Dr Tony Giles - Maxillofacial Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa
Recorded on 21 January 2021 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Vinod Shah
Hear a personal overview of Tony's work in Africa over the last 25 years with his experience in Maxfac across 10 countries, working initially on board Mercy Ships, then with teams on land.
For the last 5 years he has been mainly working alongside mission organisations with an emphasis on one-to-one training, usually in the poorest areas.
Discover the lessons he's learned both surgically and spiritually; what sustainable impact has been achieved on a small scale with a minimal budget; and their experiences of answered prayer.
Dr Giles graduated BDS in Sheffield 1972, FDSRCS in 1976, OMFS Accreditation 1982 and MDSc Thesis in Leeds 1984. He was appointed Consultant in 1984 in Luton. He then volunteered in Madagascar June 1996 with Mercy Ships, then across Africa yearly until ‘retiring’ in 2000, enabling him, with his wife, a nurse, to work across Africa half the year. Since 2007, they have worked alongside and training local surgeons and nursing staff, and their multinational teams try to build their capacity to deliver quality healthcare, aiming for sustainable development in OMFS. Since 2016 they have recruited teams independently of Mercy Ships and have also been developing a WhatsApp ‘telemedicine’ consultation service.
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53 min