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November 18, 2022 Webinar #128 Prof John Wyatt - What are old people for Christian discipleship and the demographic time bomb
Recorded on 17 November 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A 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 10 languages. His most recent book is The Robot Will See You Now, and he has contributed a chapter to a new book Healthy Faith and the Coronavirus Crisis. He and his wife Celia are longstanding members of All Souls Church in London.
To listen live to future ICMDA webinars, visit https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/
For more from Prof John Wyatt visit https://johnwyatt.com
59 min
November 11, 2022 Webinar #127 Dr John Day - Practising medicine in a resource limited setting
Recorded on 10 November 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr John Day.

Dr John Day is a Consultant in Infectious Diseases & General Medicine at Southend University Hospital, UK and spent 5 years working in Zimbabwe and South Africa where he was developing HIV and TB services with a gold mining company. He has published on the impact of TB on HIV progression, TB screening algorithms in high HIV and TB prevalence settings and on HIV testing. He is an honorary senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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56 min
October 28, 2022 Webinar #126 Dr Walt Larimore - Spiritual history in clinical practice
Recorded on 27 October 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Walt Larimore.

'How come we don’t bring our faith to work with us more often?'
That was a question the Lord used to convict Dr Walt of the fact that although his personal relationship with God was the primary relationship in his life, more often than not he tended to leave God at the door when entering the hospital or medical office.
This webinar will discuss the rationale for including a spiritual history as part of the health history for patients. Just a few questions that all health professionals can ask will help discern how to best care for our patients, while also communicating to them that we care about more than just their physical health.\

Walt Larimore, MD, a family physician, is the co-author of ICMDA’s “The Saline Process,” CMDA’s “The Saline Solution” and “Grace Prescriptions,” and the inspiration for CMDA’s new “Faith Prescriptions”. He has been recognized in International Health Professionals of the Year and International Health Scientists of the Year as well as The 2000 Intellectuals of the 21st Century.
57 min
October 20, 2022 Webinar #125 Dr Laura Wood - Life in 'Survival Mode'
Recorded on 20 October 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Laura Wood.
Danger, fear, conflict, and abuse have sadly impacted many of us, and are often a painful reality for our patients, family, and friends too. This session introduces how the incredible human brain and body adapts to threat, especially during the sensitive developmental window from before birth to around 26 years of age.
We will explore what developmental (psychological) trauma can look like, how stress and trauma can affect our biology, and how to support people living in ‘survival-mode’.
As we are all humans caring for other humans, this session aims to help us understand both ourselves and others better.

Laura Wood is a paediatrician with special interest in human trafficking, childhood trauma recovery and health justice. She is the Research Director and Child & Family Lead at VITA, a clinician-led organisation dedicated to advancing the health and public health approach to human trafficking.
Laura is completing her PhD in human trafficking and health with Lancaster University (UK) and is supporting the development of new social medicine and leadership training in the UK. Laura is married to Noel Aruparayil, ICMDA Regional Secretary for Eurasia.
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58 min
October 14, 2022 Webinar #124 Dr Varghese Philip - Reimagining Work
Recorded on 13 October 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Varghese Philip.
God’s mandate for work is a derivative of His Trinitarian character. But for us in the fallen world, work has become frustrating and futile because sin is both structural and systemic.
Christ’s incarnation has changed everything including the power of sin. While we wait for the consummation of everything in Christ, we live in the ‘already but not yet’.
Every day we experience the reality of the dissonance between what ought to be and what is. How are we to live and work in such world as the people of God?

With over 20 years of experience in strategically leading healthcare organizations in diverse situations, Dr Philip can be best described as a visionary and strategist. For more than a decade, he has been advising and consulting hospitals on strategy, development plans and community initiatives.
Dr Philip is committed to engaging with issues related to equity in healthcare and to making healthcare accessible and affordable. He is currently serving Mission Aviation Fellowship in the area of strategic development.
He is also a certified coach and believes in imparting training for the next generation's leaders across various diverse groups. Dr Philip has an MS from Christian Medical College, Vellore (India) and MSc in Social Policy from London School of Economics, London (UK).
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57 min
October 07, 2022 Webinar #123 Dr Vinod Shah - Personhood a Christian understanding
Recorded on 6 October 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Vinod Shah.
What is personhood? When does it begin? Do individuals have intrinsic worth or value? And how are we different from animals?
Join Dr Vinod Shah as he tackles these questions and explores the history of personhood, its origins in popular thought and what Scripture has to teach us on the subject.
After coming to Christian faith from a Jain background, Dr Vinod Shah's passion is serving God through Medical Mission. He did his M.B.B.S, M.S & M.Ch from Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He served as Executive Director of the Emmanuel Hospital Association in New Delhi; was the Head of Distance Education at CMC Vellore; and from 2014-2019 was the CEO of ICMDA. He is married to Dr Shalini Shah and they are blessed with three children; two of them are working in North America, and one in China.
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1 hr
September 30, 2022 Webinar #122 Dr Rachael Pickering - Caring for victims of torture and ill-treatment
Recorded on 29 Sept 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Santhosh Mathews chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Rachael Pickering
This session provides a very gentle introduction to a difficult but necessary subject. Every healthcare professional should learn about torture and ill-treatment. In today's global society, refugees fleeing man's inhumanity to man can be found across the globe; yet they still bear chronic physical, mental and spiritual scars. Healthcare professionals working within and near to police stations, prisons and other places of detention can all too easily find themselves sucked in to turning a blind eye to ill-treatment and even frank torture; and it's a slippery slope from that to medical involvement in torture. The relevant international humanitarian law appears complex to the untrained eye and applies to only certain nations. And you won't find relevant medical information in your local healthcare library. And why is this bloody subject particularly suitable for Christian healthcare professionals to stain our hands with? Our Lord's own tortured hands tell it all.
Dr Rachael Pickering is a British-trained family medicine specialist. Since 2007 she has majored on offender healthcare. When in the UK she locums within English prisons. She is the co-founder of Integritas Healthcare, a NGO with a HEART for detainees – delivering Healthcare, Expertise, Advocacy, Research & Training for & about detainees. The pandemic prompted Integritas to branch out into telemedicine. And since COVID-19 has now calmed down somewhat, she's just got back to spending around a quarter of her life working behind bars in the Philippines and other low- and middle-income countries. Her webinar will be coming to you from Integritas' base on the western coast of Luzon, Philippines. Rachael is married to fellow prison doctor Mark who is also the CEO of the UK's CMF. Their greatest joy is their young adult daughter Zoe who spent most of her teenage years hopping in and out of Asian jails. She has become the best healthcare assistant a prison doc could wish for!
To listen live to future ICMDA webinars, visit https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/
For Integritas Healthcare visit https://integritashealthcare.org
57 min
September 23, 2022 Webinar #121 Dr Jim Ritchie - Boundaries for healthcare missionaries
Recorded on 17 Februaray 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Jim Ritchie.
The strategy of Healthcare Missions is   profoundly effective. But inherent in the practice of healthcare missions is   a propensity for overwork, burnout, and moral injury. These factors are among   the most frequently reported reasons for an early end of service for   healthcare missionaries.
The use of God-honoring boundaries has been   identified as an essential spiritual discipline in cross-cultural missions.   When entire teams mutually support healthy, sustainable boundaries, they tend   to enjoy greater unity, emotional and spiritual health, and longevity.
In this webinar, we   will explore the biblical support for practicing boundaries, and will   describe practical examples of boundaries which healthcare missionaries have   successfully employed.

Dr Jim Ritchie is an emergency physician. He   served 25 years in the US Navy, including seven years as a residency program   director and two deployments to Afghanistan. He then served for six years as   a medical missionary in Chogoria, Kenya, and helped start a family medicine   residency there.
Throughout his   experience in combat medicine and missions medicine, Jim has engaged the   problems of moral injury and burnout, and enjoys teaching the importance of   boundaries. He currently works with MedSend in the Longevity Project, helping   healthcare missionaries thrive. Jim and his wonderful wife Martha have six   children and one daughter-in-law. They live in Virginia Beach.
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55 min
September 15, 2022 Webinar #120 Dr Dan O’Neill - Healing – a missing link in theology
Recorded on 15 September 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Dan O'Neill.
Health is the great global connector, and of central importance in God’s purposes, but is often neglected in theology, medicine, and the church’s mission.
A health-centric systematic and biblical theology will be presented to challenge the theological categories which often neglect a healing element.
This is followed by a description of health which transcends biomedical categories giving practitioners an enhanced perspective of their important work and demonstrates the way health and healing can serve as signs of the dwelling place of God.
We will conclude with a call to actualize health in transcendent anticipation of the eschatological hope.
Daniel O’Neill
Daniel O’Neill, MD, MTh is a physician-theologian and managing editor of Christian Journal for Global Health, Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and holds a master’s degree in theological studies from Bethel Seminary. He has served on health and development projects among impoverished or displaced populations. He is a co-founder of Health for All Nations and author and co-editor of the book All Creation Groans: Toward a Theology of Disease and Global Health.
To listen live to future ICMDA webinars, visit https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/
56 min
September 09, 2022 Webinar #119 Dr Christina Francis - Prolife apologetics
Recorded on 8 September 2022 for ICMDA Webinars.
Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Christina Francis.

In Defense of Life:
Join Dr Christina Francis, board-certified OB/GYN and CEO-Elect of the American Association of Prolife OB/GYN's for a discussion of how to winsomely and graciously defend life using logic and reason along with medical and scientific evidence.

It is more important than ever that we be able to defend our patients - both born and preborn - from the travesty of abortion and this talk will give you the tools to be able to do just that.

Dr Christina Francis

Dr Christina Francis is a board-certified OB/GYN who currently works as an OB/GYN Hospitalist. She studied medicine at Indiana University in 2005 and completed her OB/GYN residency at St Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis in 2009. She is a board member and CEO-elect of AAPLOG, an associate scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute, a board member of Indiana Right to Life, and a physician member of the Abortion Pill Reversal Network. As a pro-life speaker, Dr Francis offers her medical expertise, knowledge of bioethics & pro-life reasoning around the globe. She worked for 3 years as the only OB/GYN at a mission hospital in rural Kenya. She has a passion for human rights and works tirelessly on behalf of women and children who are often victims of the abortion industry. She has written on issues surrounding women’s health and abortion for publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and USA Today.
To listen live to future ICMDA webinars, visit https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/
58 min