ICMDA Recordings

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...

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 bea...

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 e...

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 neglec...

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 imp...

Recorded on 1 September 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Alex Bolek chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Chris Jenkins. Resilience, the ability to spring back after being under pressure, is an important quality everyone needs for the trials of life. This is especially true of those serving in other cultures when the familiar supports of life are not available. Components of resilience include a solid d...

Consciousness is a slippery thing and hard to define. We are not talking about medical ‘levels of consciousness’ but the actual phenomenon of what it is to be a conscious person. Descartes famously proposed a dualism where the mind is a distinct ‘substance’ from the body, even if intimately interacting with it. Indeed, since Descartes philosophers have struggled to explain how something purely phy...

The idea that medicine is an art runs from the thought of Aristotle through the Hippocratic Oath into modern times. But there is much confusion over what the art of healthcare is and how it relates to scientific knowledge. This is more than a theoretical issue – it makes a real difference to how we think of our patients, our relationships with them, the nature of health and the shape of excellent...

Recorded on 11 August 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Perry Jansen Mission Hospitals operate in some of the most challenging environments in the world.  Sustaining health services in a way that maintains quality while honoring God’s call to serve the poor can seem unattainable. Prior ICMDA webinars have covered tools and approaches for managing...

Recorded on 04 August 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Dr Shari Falkenheimer on "The life cycle of the Christian doctor" Becoming and practicing as a Christian doctor is a long process throughout our adult lives with several stages, moving from medical school through specialty training to practice and retirement. I like to divide these into the stage...

Recorded on 28 July 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Rachael Pickering & Esther Cutting 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;...

Recorded on 21 July 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Dr Benjamin Chang. The last decade has seen identity politics transform the Western World. Movements such as #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Gay Pride and the Transgender Movement have told the captivating narrative of oppressed identity groups who are rising up to fight their societal oppressors. However,...

Recorded on 14 July 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Prof Harold Koenig. Dr Koenig examines the relationship between faith, coping with stress, and mental health, covering topics such as depression, suicide, PTSD, substance use disorders, etc, followed by a model that describes how religious involvement influences mental and social health. He then e...

Recorded on 7 July 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Trevor Stammers. Mitochondrial replacement techniques were legalised in the UK in 2015 and more recently in Australia in March 2022, ostensibly as a way to enable mothers with affected mitochondria to have genetically related children without fear of passing onto them the risk of severe mitochondrial diseases...

Recorded on 30 June 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Calum MacKellar. What will it mean for society if science enables us to choose a future child whose health, athletic ability or intelligence is predetermined? This future is becoming ever more likely with the latest developments in human reproduction. New procedures, making possible heritable genome modifica...

Recorded on 16 June 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Sunil Raheja. We all have an innate often unrecognised hunger for wisdom and are naturally curious about life. However, this can lead us to look for answers in unhealthy ways. Biblical wisdom draws us to focus on God as the source of all wisdom. Reflecting on the three Old Testament books of Proverbs, Eccles...

Recorded on 9 June 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Daniel O’Neill Flourishing as a concept has Aristotelian and other ancient transcultural roots, has been informed and enhanced by Judeo-Christian theology, has been increasingly adopted in many modern secular professional disciplines, and can be observed to be a consistent universal goal throughout human hist...

Recorded on 26 May 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a discussion with Dr Steve Smith. This episode considers a Christian response to addiction, covering: Substance use and misuse  The extent of the addiction problem  What is addiction?  How do people become addicted?  The way out Dr Steve Smith is a General Practitioner specialising in substance misuse and is...

Recorded on 19 May 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Prof Glynn Harrison. Western culture appears to be obsessed with issues of identity. In this session we briefly review the rise of modern selfism - its philosophical roots and the role played by psychology and psychiatry in cementing its cultural power. We investigate possible impacts in terms of mental health a...

Recorded on 12 May 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Walt Larimore. During the webinar Dr Larimore considers: The Biblical Case for Prayer The Clinical Case for Prayer Cautions about Praying with Patients Opportunities for Prayer WITH Patients Opportunities for Prayer FOR Patients The Obligation to Pray Walt is an internationally-recognized family physicia...

Recorded on 3 February 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Chris Steyn. Dr Chris Steyn has been through a few stressful challenges: Struggling with suicidal thoughts, losing soulmates, wrestling with intellectual challenges, trying to break out of the stranglehold of dysfunctional families, burdened by depression for several years, marriage cracking, children cau...

Recorded on 5 May 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Calum Miller. The abortion debate is often seen as a dilemma between the wellbeing of the mother and the wellbeing of the child: for pro-lifers, the child's right to life outweighs the mother's right to choice. In fact, the empirical evidence suggests that abortion has, on the whole, been detrimental not only...

Recorded on 10 February 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Donna Harrison. Some claim that elective abortion legalization is necessary for reduction of maternal mortality. Is that claim actually supported by evidence? This episode raises questions about terminology and methodology used to coerce global abortion legalization. The discussion will explore the inter...

Recorded on 28 April 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion with Dr Rachael Pickering & Mam Loy. Dr Pickering has worked in secure environments for more than 15 years. She locums at several prisons in the UK and was the co-chair of the UK BMA’s Forensic and Secure Environments Committee. She is the medical director of Integritas Healthcare , a small but growing int...

Recorded on 17 March 2022 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a discussion between Bob Snyder, M.D. and Tyler Hallman who have worked together for 4 years learning from one another how to be a spiritual influencer with patients and colleagues, family and friends. Our legacies will be what we pass on to others. As Christians in the healthcare field, we have opportunity to leave our legacy...