ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 26 June 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Shari Falkenheimer Athletes hoping to become Olympians need a coach to maximize their performance. Life coaching, like athletic coaching, helps a person or group improve in an area of interest or concern. It is based on the fact that the person or group knows themselves, their situation, and their options best....

Recorded on 19 June 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof Christoffer Grundmann This webinar sketches the history of Christian medical missions from Jesus’ healing ministry to present day Christian medical services. First it will touch upon the beginnings of institutional care for the sick in the 4th century up until the middle of the 19th century, a time when not m...

Recorded on 12 June 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Mathew George The Kingdom of God is a foundational concept in Christian theology, deeply rooted in the teachings and ministry of Jesus Christ. While traditionally associated with spiritual and eschatological dimensions, its relevance extends into every sphere of life—including healthcare. The values and vision...

Recorded on 5 June 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Nicholas Herodotou Palliative Medicine is the symptom management of any patient who has an irreversible, progressive, life-limiting condition and is not solely cancer patients. It aims to enhance quality of life, utilizing a holistic, multidisciplinary approach. Good symptom management of palliative patients is...

Recorded on 29 May 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill Addressing disease and suffering of individuals is a unique place where God’s comforting and healing presence can be experienced. Stories can be shared and narratives integrated with God’s grand healing narrative. Truth can be pursued with rational methods while the leading of the Holy Spirit guide...

Recorded on 22 May 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Steve Sartori Leaving a career in medicine is often very challenging and stressful for physicians. For those who navigate this transition well, there awaits an exciting array of new opportunities and a rewarding sense of fulfillment. Although much attention is focused on the financial aspect of retirement, a wholisti...

Recorded on 15 May 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Rev Bert Jones There are so many myths that exist in leadership development today.  These widely held false beliefs are often passed down from leaders for generations and negatively impact our understanding and effectiveness in leadership. Even in healthcare settings, these leadership myths have trained many of our...

Recorded on 8 May 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Steven Willing In recent years, an emerging body of research in cognitive psychology has focused on several fundamental prerequisites for sound thinking, reaffirming what Scripture has taught for millennia. These can be summarized in eight simple principles. The Christian Mind: Is humble. Seeks wisdom. Is discern...

Recorded on 1 May 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Tim Dieppe The influence of Islam in the UK is growing rapidly and can be seen in politics, in finance, in fashion, in food, in restrictions on freedom of expression, and in many other areas. Islam is bold and assertive and openly pushing for greater influence across the nation. There can be no doubt that this poses...

Recorded on 24 April 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr David Landrum Cultural climate change has profound implications for religion generally, and Christianity specifically. Citizenship—the relationship between the people and the powers—is where the rubber hits the road. In this webinar we will map the storms assailing the Church and Western civilization. From a r...

Recorded on 17 April 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Mark Pickering chairs a webinar with Dr Felicia Wong As Christians, we are called to reflect God’s heart for justice, particularly for the vulnerable and marginalised. All around us are opportunities to address injustices and inequalities in healthcare, using the skills and resources God has given us. In this webinar, we will explore the biblical fo...

Recorded on 10 April 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Frikkie In this very important presentation, Dr Frikkie shares some of the lessons he learned about “WHOLE PERSON MEDICAL EDUCATION.” This is, sadly, a practically neglected aspect of modern-day medical education. He looks at what is Whole Person Medical Education, what it means, and what it focusses on. We wi...

Recorded on 3 April 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Trevor Stammers Addiction is not a word that is used in scripture. So does the Bible have anything to say about it? In this seminar we will consider some of the contemporary understandings of addictive behaviours and their management in medical and psychological practice. We will also explore some scriptural themes...

Recorded on 27 March 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Patrick Dixon Many millions of lives will be saved each year by 2030 as a direct result of AI, 400,000 in the EU alone. At the same time, AI will remain invisible to sick patients receiving care in hospital or at home. Over $30bn a year is already being spent on AI in healthcare, with budgets increasing by 30%...

Recorded on 20 March 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Augustin Lutakwa chairs a webinar with Dr Jeffrey Larson Missionaries often leave the field due to insufficient care. Dr. Jeffrey Larson, cofounder of the Member Care Collaboration Network (MCCN), shares how technology is transforming member care. Discover how health professionals can use digital platforms for telecare, mental health support, and tr...

Recorded on 13 March 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Mike Soderling For the past 10 years the Lausanne Health for All Nations Issue Network has been striving to help the global Church understand health from a biblical perspective and with that perspective to actively engage in caring for the whole person wherever she exists. Of equal if not greater importance is...

Recorded on 6 March 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Mark Pickering The founding General Secretary of CMF UK, Dr Douglas Johnson, said ‘it is inexcusable for a Christian to neglect history’. The Bible itself is essentially an historical narrative, recorded so that we, many years later, can ‘learn the lessons of history’ – to be encouraged by the examples (and fra...

Recorded on 27 February 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Vinod Shah Since 2015 Hinduism has again changed and is called Sanatan dharma and is becoming more muscular and politically influential. The success of Hindus worldwide - the large number of Hindu CEOs in industries and lots of Hindus in the Government in western countries and their increasing influence has...

Recorded on 20 February 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Matthew Eppinette Bioethics has brought a slate of topics over the past years. Today, we face a set of complex and pressing issues, and the dilemmas of tomorrow are, at most, just over the horizon. This talk will include a few comments about the bioethics of yesterday before turning to the issues of today a...

Recorded on 13 February 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Steven Willing Transgenderism describes an individual who identifies with a gender that does not correspond to their sex. Trans-affirming advocates may say that social and medical transitioning merely brings the body into line with the mind, but what if it goes the other way? What if the cart is pulling the...

Recorded on 6 February 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Ashleigh Chapman Human trafficking is a growing public health crisis that is now impacting over 1M individuals in the United States and over 50M souls worldwide. No community is immune. And yet, less than 1% of victims are identified. Healthcare professionals have perhaps the most critical role to play. Why? Be...

Recorded on 30 January 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill Humans are corporeal creatures made in God’s image, and as such live corporate lives in community. Tertulian wrote, “the flesh is the very condition on which salvation hinges.” Based on the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (15:1-3; 20-58), we will explore the relevance of this le...

Recorded on 23 January 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Santhosh Mathew For more on the Diploma in Healthcare Management visit https://icmda.net/resources/i-pgdhcm/ The lack of trained healthcare managers and leaders who can efficiently manage healthcare institutions in resource limited settings is well known. The recent pandemic highlighted the critical need for stro...

Recorded on 16 January 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr John Patrick Ethics courses only routinely appeared in the medical curriculum in the 80s An anecdote: “I only teach ethics I don’t practice them.” Aristotle begins his ethics; “Every rational activity aims at some end or good.” Paul points out that “ The good that I would I do not…” The University presumes (...

Recorded on 9 January 2025 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jean-Paul Dansou This Webinar is about how to build a strong family. We believe that family is the first cell of every society - weak families make weak nations. Building strong families is a powerful means to prepare a better new generation. Based on US research we plan to share six characteristics of strong...