Recorded on 15 January 2026 for ICMDA Webinars.

Dr David Randall chairs a webinar with Dr Scott Armistead

Euro-American bioethics which emerged from a blend of both the Hippocratic tradition and Judeo-Christian ethics, has veered significantly from its roots.  Principlism - autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence - arising out of the US in the 1960s, has spread around the world, but its application in non-Western cultural contexts is at times problematic, thus leading principlism to increasingly be critiqued. Some specific areas of divergence center on the integrated, embodied, sacred wholeness of the human, and the very foundational understanding of medicine as a profession.

Dr. Armistead trained at the Medical College of Virginia and Truman East Family Medicine Residency in Kansas City, where he met Dr. Comninellis as a faculty member. Dr. Armistead and his family lived in Pakistan from 1999-2015, providing medical care at Bach Christian Hospital, with a 1 1/2 year stint at Kanad Hospital in the United Arab Emirates when the security situation in Pakistan worsened.

Since returning from Pakistan in 2015, Dr. Armistead has taught family medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of Medicine and was in private practice before joining INMED. He takes medical students for a month-long elective to Zimbabwe annually and teaches international medicine. Since 2015, he has also worked part-time as a CMDA staff worker at VCU.

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