ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 11 November 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Valerie Huber. Valerie Huber was Special Representative for Global Women’s Health during the Trump Administration, during which time the Geneva Consensus Declaration was signed by 35 nations who committed to protect life, women's health, the family, and the right of a country to make their own laws o...

Recorded on 4 November 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar and Q&A with Vishal Mangalwadi. Vishal Mangalwadi, LLD, was born and raised in India. He studied eastern religion and philosophy in India, Hindu ashrams, and at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland. He is a dynamic and engaging speaker who has lectured in thirty-five countries. He is a social reformer, political col...

Recorded on 28 October 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Andrea Williams. Sometimes it can seem hard to live out your faith in the medical professions. Are you allowed to pray with a patient? Can you express your faith to your colleagues? What happens if a medical procedure conflicts with your Christian faith? With Christian freedoms under threat, those who work in t...

Recorded on 14 October 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. To listen live...

Recorded on 30 September 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Dae-Young Lee. What is our preconception about Muslims? Do we continue to practice medical missions in a way that is no longer considered an effective means of presenting the gospel to the unreached? Is our gospel message biblically balanced and firmly contextualized in the context that we try to serve? Th...

Recorded on 23 September 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Dr Vinod Shah. Dr Vinod Shah trained in pediatric surgery at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. He is married to Dr Shalini Shah and blessed with 3 children. His passion is serving God through Medical Mission having come to Christian faith from a Jain background. He served as a pioneer missionary and...

Recorded on 16 September 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jean Wright. Dr Wright has been recognized as one of the Top 30 Chief Innovation Officers and one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Health IT in the US. She has practiced as a pediatric anesthesiologist and intensivist and held positions as a Physician Executive at Emory, Chair of Pediatrics for Mercer, and...

Recorded on 2 September 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Laura Haynes. “Conversion Therapy” is a pejorative nickname given by opponents to any therapy that is open to a client’s goal of decreasing or changing unwanted same-sex attraction or behaviour or unwanted incongruent gender identity or expression. Laura Haynes, Ph. D. will present research and other important...

Recorded on 1 July 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Anil Cherian. One of the key obstacles to improved healthcare in South Sudan is a lack of trained medical staff.  Though the country is larger than France there are reportedly fewer than 200 doctors and most health workers have only very basic training.   Listen to hear of a transformational ministry, led by Dr...

Recorded on 10 June 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr David Landrum. Dr David Landrum is the Director of Advocacy & Public Affairs at Open Doors UK & Ireland giving voice in politics, government and the media to the persecuted church. Previously he was Director of Advocacy of Evangelical Alliance UK, served as the Senior Parliamentary Officer for the Bible...

Recorded on 3 June 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Mark Greene No year is easy in healthcare, but the pandemic has subjected healthcare professionals and services to immense and unrelenting pressure. In such circumstances, what is the scope of our ministry? And what is the scope of God’s support? Come explore Acts 27, and see not only how Paul responds to the chall...

Recorded on 27 May 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr John Patrick Dr Patrick argues that when we neglect our intellectual or cultural history it is usually a marker for becoming slaves of the dominant groups (consider the children of Israel in Egypt when the culture forgot what Joseph had done.)  How biblically literate are you?   Dr John Patrick is a Canadian Lec...

Recorded on 6 May 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof Nathan Grills. Working amongst people with disabilities does not stop with medical care or social provision. How do we as health practitioners do we go beyond a medical model to value people with disability as created in the image of God who are co-heirs with us? This involves ‘fighting alongside people with di...

Recorded on 29 April 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Kiran Martin. Dr Martin studied her BMBS at Delhi University’s Maulana Azad Medical College, specialising in pediatrics at Lady Hardinge. Responding to a cholera outbreak in a Delhi slum in 1988, she began treating residents and saw the need not only for quality healthcare but also to address education, empowe...

Recorded on 22 April 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Philippa Taylor. The push for abortion in Africa: a form of modern day ideological colonialism  Philippa Taylor is Associate Director of the Institute for Faith and Culture, a Leadership Programme. Prior to that, she was Head of Public Policy for nine years at the UK Christian Medical Fellowship, with her main fo...

Recorded on 15 April 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Rev Dr Soo-Inn Tan. Rev Dr Tan Soo Inn qualified as a dentist from the University of Singapore and worked as a dentist for a number of years before enrolling in seminary in obedience to God's call for him to serve as a pastor. He obtained a ThM from Regent College and a DMin from Fuller seminary. His passions...

Recorded on 8 April 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Shari Falkenheimer Dr Shari works with  Medical Education International  - a short-term missions program that provides academic teaching and clinical training while spreading the gospel to doctors and students in hard to reach countries. MEI’s primary goals are spiritual - the spiritual development of team memb...

Recorded on 25 March 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Sharon James The God of mercy has compassion on all he has made, and his followers have been at the forefront of efforts to relieve suffering. The parable of the Good Samaritan has been described as the parable that changed the world. Christ’s followers, through history and today, are in the forefront of providin...

Recorded on 18 March 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof Glynn Harrison. Even in the earliest days of the Church, Christians were accused of being ’hate filled’ and of causing harm. And today, in many parts of the world, faith is increasingly linked with trauma and oppression. But is faith psychologically bad for you? Here we will examine the surprisingly strong e...

Recorded on 11 March 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Rebekah Zechariah The webinar throws light on the need for Family Medicine to be the specialty of choice in primary care settings, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Models from higher resource settings can be studied but there is a great need to contextualize the same for the different regions,...

Recorded on 18 February 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. What will the year 2084 hold for you - for healthcare, your friends, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell’s 1984? In discussion with Dr Peter Saunders, scientist and philosopher John Lennox will introduce you to a kaleidoscope of ideas: the key developments in technological enhancement, bioengineering, an...

Recorded on 18 February 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Lennox. What will the year 2084 hold for you - for healthcare, your friends, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell’s 1984? In discussion with Dr Peter Saunders, scientist and philosopher John Lennox will introduce you to a kaleidoscope of ideas: the key dev...

Recorded on 4 May 2020 for ICMDA Webinars Hosted by Dr Peter Saunders

A recording from the ICMDA Eurasia Congress

A recording from the ICMDA Eurasia Congress