ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 8 Augusty 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Jelena Sivulka Compassion is the emotional response to another's suffering and the desire to help. Limits to compassion arise when constant exposure to suffering leads to compassion fatigue, causing emotional and physical exhaustion. Jelena will share her experiences and insights on recovering from compassio...

Recorded on 1 August 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Alex Bolek chairs a webinar with Dr Paul Hudson Jesus went about healing people and preaching the Kingdom of God. Healthcare professionals who want to serve Christ can find it challenging to integrate faith and practice, especially in a cross-cultural mission setting. Having served as a missionary doctor in Africa and Asia, Paul Hudson will unpack s...

Recorded on 25 July 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Rev Christo Heiberg What is Islamic Dawa, why should we be concerned and how should the Christian church respond? Islamic Dawa is the Muslim strategy for world domination, designed back in the seventh century. The aim is to transform the whole world into the Dar al Islam (House of Islam) through both peaceful and...

Recorded on 18 July 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Julie Maxwell The clinical management of children who are questioning their gender or experiencing gender dysphoria is a hotly contested topic throughout the world. In 2020 NHS England commissioned an independent review of services for children with gender dysphoria. In April this year the final report was prod...

Recorded on 11 July 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Rev Dr John Mayer Come and learn about the Circle of Significance for world missions’ strategy. Learn about where over 50% of the world lives in just 15% of the earth’s land area. This “Circle” contains 67% of the world’s unreached people groups as well as 29 of the world’s 46 megacities of 10 million+ people. Ove...

Recorded on 4 July 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Justin Brierley Despite the increasing secularisation of the West, Justin Brierley believes we may be seeing a renewed interest in faith, even in our post-Christian culture. Having hosted conversations between Christians and skeptics for over 18 years, Justin will be speaking on why new atheism has grown old and se...

Recorded on 14 May 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Patrick Dixon Patrick Dixon is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, author of 16 books on global trends including The Future of Almost Everything, and has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50). Dr Dixon has spoken to audiences in over 60 nations and is one of the wor...

Recorded on 21 May 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Pablo Martínez Dr Pablo Martínez is a psychiatrist and he currently works at a private practice in Barcelona. He develops a wide ministry as lecturer and teacher in many European countries on topics like “Mind and faith”, “The therapeutic value of the Gospel in emotional problems” or “Taking care of yourself”. H...

Recorded on 23 July 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with PRiME Tutors ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠To listen live to future ICMDA webinars visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For information about PRIME visit https://www.prime-international.org/

Recorded on 10 September 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Chris Steyn Chris Steyn trained as a family doctor at University of Pretoria, before working at Kgapane Mission hospital in South Africa. He joined HCFI as a staff member in 1981 as part of its international ministry in HCFI. He was the CEO of HCFI from 2004-2018 and is now its President. He is based in th...

Recorded on 27 June 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Lars Ljungström This webinar is about how, soon after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine, the Lord put together a most unlikely combination of five actors in order to support doctors and patients in Ukraine with large quantities of highly needed drugs. It is also about the fact that God uses very ordina...

Recorded on 20 June 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Steve Midgley Words matter. Every Christian believer knows that. The gospel comes to us as a word and with our words we can either praise or curse (James 3:9). Thinking about the way words are used in our churches, not just in our preaching, but also in our conversations is vital. The Bible urges us toward a on...

Recorded on 17 September 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Rob Waller Dr Rob Waller is a Consultant Psychiatrist based in Scotland with over 20 years experience. He grew up in London, studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and then studied postgraduate psychiatry in Yorkshire. He has been a Consultant Psychiatrist for almost 15 years, including two years...

Recorded on 24 September 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar 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 me...

Recorded on 1 October 2020 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...

Recorded on 8 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Whitehall In recent years, the issue of transgender identity in children has leapt from the periphery of public consciousness to centre stage of a cultural drama played out in the media, courts, schools, hospitals, families, and in the minds and bodies of children. It is a kind of utopian religion with...

Recorded on 13 June 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Alex Bolek chairs a webinar with Dr Chris Jenkins The idea of unanswered prayer being a blessing may seem like a contradiction of terms. We feel we are blessed when our requests are answered, when we receive what we ask for and think we need. The truth is, however, that there are needs in our lives we don’t know about and a lack of understanding of i...

Recorded on 15 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof Andrew Tomkins "Corruption, an undeniable reality in the health sector, is arguably the most serious ethical crisis in medicine today... Corruption traps millions of people in poverty, perpetuates the existing inequalities in income and health, drains the available resources undermines people’s access...

Recorded on 22 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Katherine Welch This webinar discusses how medical professionals can use their expertise to help lift people out of slavery and into a thriving life. Katherine Welch, MD, an American physician, has been serving oppressed, trafficked, and exploited people since 2000. Her journey started at a mission hospital...

Recorded on 29 October 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Vineeth Jaison Hear how medical professionals respond to the challenges of COVID and how we can adjust our practices using technology accordingly. Dr. Vineeth Jaison is currently working as Associate Professor in Neurology at Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, India. He did his undergraduate,...

Recorded on 5 November 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Keir Thelander Hear the inspiring story of PAACS - an organisation that trains and disciples African surgeons to glorify God and provide excellent care to those most in need. Keir Thelander attended Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his general surgery residency at Fairview Hospital in Clev...

Recorded on 12 November 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr James Paul Contemporary sociologists argue that the way we see the world is socially created within cultures. “Girls wear pink and boys wear blue,” for example, is not a universal law but something created within twentieth-century Western culture through discourse around what it means to be male and female....

Recorded on 6 June 2024 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Wyatt Artificial intelligence is everywhere and is seems as though science fiction fantasies are starting to come true. It’s hard to separate the hype from reality but analysts predict that deploying AI in healthcare could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year and dramatically reduce healthcare c...

Recorded on 3 December 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Dave Stevens Dr Stevens holds degrees from Asbury College and the University of Louisville School of Medicine and is board certified in family medicine. He earned a master’s degree in bioethics from Trinity International University in 2002 and has served on the boards of Asbury University and World Gospel Mi...

Recorded on 10 December 2020 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Richard Winter Dr Winter grew up in England and trained in medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and then in psychiatry in Bristol. (He is a past member of The Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK.) He was also a counsellor, teacher and leader at the English L’Abri and associate pastor of a chu...