ICMDA Recordings

Recorded on 7 December 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Emil Shehadeh Emil Shehadeh is a semi-retired family physician born in Galilee and educated mainly in the UK. His parents were Arabic-speaking evangelists. His surrogate parents in the UK were also evangelicals, Dad an ordained Anglican vicar and a lecturer at London Bible College (now LST) in comparative re...

Recorded on 30 November 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Andrea Williams. Transgenderism, as a legal concept, has dramatically affected Western Culture as few other things have over the last decade. Often, the term is ill defined and conflated with gender identity ideology, leading to an overly broad interpretation which has impacted education, employment law, safe...

Recorded on 23 November 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Paul Saba. Dr. Paul Saba will present on the subject of his book entitled " Made to Live ", a book that presents Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and Abortion from a Christian and Medical Ethics perspective. The purpose of this book is "to remind everyone how precious life is... {and} reject the...

From the 17th ICMDA World Congress 2023 Recorded on 22 June 2023 Arusha, Tanzania

From the 17th ICMDA World Congress 2023 Recorded on 23 June 2023 Arusha, Tanzania

From the 17th ICMDA World Congress 2023 Recorded on 22 June 2023 Arusha, Tanzania

From the 17th ICMDA World Congress 2023 Recorded on 20 June 2023 Arusha, Tanzania

From the 17th ICMDA World Congress 2023 Recorded on 21 June 2023 Arusha, Tanzania

From the 17th ICMDA World Congress 2023 Recorded on 24 June 2023 Arusha, Tanzania

From the 17th ICMDA World Congress 2023 Recorded on 25 June 2023 Arusha, Tanzania

Recorded on 16 November 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Howard Lyons chairs a webinar with Dr Ben Chang. The last few decades have seen the influence of postmodernism sweep the Western World. Today, evidence and reason are trumped by personal convictions and people’s “lived experience”. Fake news stories consistently travel faster and wider than true news stories online. And traditional authority figures...

Recorded on 9 November 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dirk Jongkind. The books of the New Testament were all written in the first century and have since been copied by countless scribes. The original physical manuscripts written by the apostles have all long perished, so we have to do with copies. However, as happens when a text is copied, errors can creep in and...

Recorded on 2 November 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Rajni Herman & Moanaro Ao. New Delhi, the capital of India, is the hub where people from all walks of life migrate in search of a better future and a better tomorrow. For many, this step proves to be a giant leap for reaching their desired ambitions, but unfortunately for a few, their struggle would neve...

Recorded on 26 October 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Gordon Macdonald. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are increasingly being legalised in Western nations. This talk will look at the impact of this prioritisation of autonomy and choice within healthcare, at vulnerable people being placed at risk as a result and how the number of deaths quickly escalates once t...

Recorded on 19 October 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Philippa Taylor chairs a webinar with Dr Chris Cirucci. Chemical (or medication) abortion is typically accomplished with mifepristone and misoprostol. It is now the most common method of induced abortion. Although often perceived as safe, it has higher complication rates than surgical abortion, and particular complications are inherent in chemical ab...

Recorded on 12 October 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Anil Cherian. What are the strategic challenges of mobilizing Christian Healthcare Professionals for mission - especially with the shift of the center of global Christianity to the majority world – the Global South? What about the North-South missionary divide that is shaping global missions and the Lausanne...

Recorded on 8 July 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Wei-Leong Goh. Wei-Leong is a General Practitioner and founder & director of Linking Hands, a medical networking agency connecting Christian medical professionals & students to short & long term opportunities, crisis relief and student elective programmes. He chairs the Singapore CMDF, is the ICMDA R...

A breakout session from the 17th ICMDA World Congress in Arusha Tanzania. Recorded in June 2023. Please note the recording may be incomplete or of poor quality in places.

A breakout session from the 17th ICMDA World Congress in Arusha Tanzania. Please note the recording may be incomplete or of poor quality in places.

A breakout session from the 17th ICMDA World Congress in Arusha Tanzania. Recorded in June 2023. Please note the recording may be incomplete or of poor quality in places.

Recorded on 15 July 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Hotlin Ompusunggu. Dr Hotlin, a licensed dentist, comes originally from Sumatra. She has four years experience serving in an Indonesian government clinic in a rural part of Sumatra, including two years as the director of a mobile clinic and on-board dentist that traveled via boat in rural Sumatra. She also coor...

A breakout session from the 17th ICMDA World Congress in Arusha Tanzania. Recorded in June 2023. Please note the recording may be incomplete or of poor quality in places.

Recorded on 20 May 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Mike Chupp. Despite the recognition that successful mentoring experiences are usually the result of intentional and committed relationships between mentor and mentee, there are still challenges in achieving consistent, positive outcomes for mission driven Christ followers in healthcare.  Healthcare professionals...

Recorded on 5 October 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Dr Ted Hamilton. Physician burnout has become an issue of international concern. Beginning over a decade ago, researchers began to identify the cardinal characteristics of burnout as depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and loss of satisfaction in work. Early studies identified physicians as at particular r...

Recorded on 22 July 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jelena Sivulka. Jelena was born and raised in Serbia, where she got her master’s degree in psychology and in theology. She became a Christian 25 years ago and a few years later got involved in ministry with her husband Greg, planting churches, distributing humanitarian aid, and partnering with Joni and Friends,...