ICMDA Recordings

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,...

Recorded on 5 August 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Prof John Wyatt. Conscientious objection as a right is enshrined in the laws of many countries and in professional medical guidelines, but has recently come under attack. The concept of the conscience goes to the heart of what it means to act in a moral way, with integrity. There have been shocking historical exa...

Recorded on 12 August 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Soo-Inn Tan. We are all called to follow Christ. But is there also a special calling we have been given? This webinar will explore the question of vocation and give helpful guidelines as to how one can discover and carry out one’s calling. This is especially needed in the fields of dentistry and medicine wher...

Recorded on 26 August 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Trevor Stammers. Trevor was the editor of  The New Bioethics , an Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Law at St Mary's University, London, and was a family doctor for 27 years before going into academia. To listen live to future ICMDA webinars, visit⁠   ⁠https://icmda.net/resources/webinars/

Recorded on 28 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Santhosh Mathew chairs a webinar with Dr Milton Amuyan. The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities. This concentration of people in urban centers will intensify in the years to come. Many cities with populations of one million or more are added to the already long list each year. Urbanization requires investments in infrastructur...

Recorded on 19 August 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Megan Best. Megan Best is a palliative care specialist, medical ethicist and researcher. She developed her interest in spirituality in healthcare when she observed the importance of meaning-making while caring for patients at the end of life. She was awarded her PhD for her study on the role of the doctor in...

Recorded on 9 September 2021 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Gloria Halverson. Dr Gloria Halverson is an author and frequent lecturer on human trafficking, has led medical teams to work with trafficking victims in Nicaragua & India and developed a successful cervical cancer screening program for them. She was a founding member of the human trafficking commission...

Recorded on 21 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Simon Calvert. Christians stand accused of abusing gay and transgender people. Countries across the West are putting ‘conversion therapy’ bans in place, intended to protect those who call themselves LGBT. But all is not as it seems. The abusive practices that activists say should be prevented are already outl...

Recorded on 14 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Santhosh Mathew. The ‘world of work’ is changing. Covid-19 and work from home, the post covid economic challenges, the Ukraine war and the uncertainty of the future in a divided world has brought the discussion on the purpose of work to the forefront. AI and related developments will affect the way work is...

Recorded on 7 September 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Daniel O'Neill. With the globalization of the church, a missional theology has emerged which addresses the universal quest for health and wholeness in various contexts of suffering and affliction. The spread of Christianity, particularly as it is occurring in the global South, has led to a fuller view o...

Recorded on 31 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Paul Coulter. Every Christian should be eager to talk about our faith and God will often give us conversations with friends, colleagues or family members. Those conversations, rather than lectures or debates, are the primary context for apologetics – the defence of the faith. Someone asks you a question and y...

Recorded on 24 August 2023 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 as a m...

Recorded on 17 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Nick Land. Who, or what, decides who we are? Is it our genes, our biology, is it our society, our education, our upbringing, our culture, is it God? Identity has become a major source of conflict and controversy in Western society. Many of us have been engaged in discussions over sexuality and gender but ther...

Recorded on 10 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Mark Pickering chairs a webinar with Dan Strange. In this seminar Dan will outline the major themes from his book Making Faith Magnetic which develops the theological anthropology of the 20th Dutch missionary and scholar J.H. Bavinck. Our focus will be the ‘religious consciousness’ of all human beings which can be summarised as ‘magnetic points’ –...

Recorded on 04 August 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Mark Pickering chairs a webinar with Dr André Van Mol. Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis, but transgenderism is an ideology. Gender transition procedures (GTPs) imperil already at-risk gender dysphoric youth with experimental and unproven hormonal and surgical gender procedures, which medicalize prematurely and permanently. Transition procedures are...

Recorded on 27 July 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Greg Pritchard. Every Christian leader knows the European church has declined over the last century. Why? Because European Unbelief has exploded in growth and choked off the Gospel church in Europe. But Europe's problem is now the world's problem. In 1900, Unbelief was less than 1% of the world's popul...

Recorded on 20 July 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jamilya Sadykova. "My dream is to end preventable deaths in Kazakhstan and the best way to achieve it is putting a stop to tobacco use." Jamilya Sadykova is a well-known and committed tobacco control leader, whose work has led to Kazakhstan’s adoption of life-saving public health measures. She is the...

Recorded on 29 June 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jay Smith. This is the final in a series of three webinars this month on Understanding Islam with renowned Christian apologist Dr Jay Smith. Muslim tradition teaches that the Qur'an we use today originated with Muhammad, and was finally canonized by Uthman in 652 A.D., and that "not one word, nor one l...

Recorded on 15 June 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Jay Smith. This is the second in a series of three webinars this month on Understanding Islam with renowned Christian apologist Dr Jay Smith. Muslim tradition teaches that Muhammad was born in Mecca, and then moved to Medina (both in central Arabia) in 622 A.D., and that during this period he received the Qur’a...