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Rebecca Swift, LCSW

Working with the same patients and their families over many years serves to deepen trust, build empathy, and give perspective. In this session, I will share the ways that God has used consistency and meaningful presence has impacted patients’ complex medical diagnoses and their mental health. Sometimes longevity can be seen as a burden, but in this session, I will share three case examples where there was beauty in longevity. Co-Presenters: Kristin Martel, MD., Lauren Smith, FNP-C

CME Accredited

Brian Reinhardt, MD

Caring for the poor has so many complexities. In our time together, we will explore one model of caring for the poor--direct primary care (DPC). As a lesser known approach to healthcare, we will begin with a nuts and bolts explanation of how DPC operates. Then, we will see the areas where DPC shines in caring for the poor. We think that DPC is one spoke, amongst multiple, in the wheel of caring for the poor. For this wheel to operate well, we must support each other. Finally, we will challenge you to ask how you are uniquely wired to fit into this wheel.

CME Accredited

Wayne Detmer, MD

In his 2010 seminal book "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World", sociologist James Davison Hunter suggests a new paradigm for Christian cultural engagement. Hunter encourages Christians to become a “faithful presence” in our communities. This workshop will tell the story of how a partnership between LCHC, the Chicago Department of Public Health, private service providers, homeless shelters, and academic medical centers served to protect 259 of the most vulnerable people living in shelters by housing them in a boutique hotel in the heart of Chicago. It will present example of the corporate practice of “faithful presence” as a model for cultural engagement in a pluralistic society.

CME Accredited

Warren Yamashita, MD MPH

Since the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have seen a rise in the polydrug overdose epidemic now surpassing over 100,000 deaths in this last year. While those in ministry & health care are called to this battle, too often we are siloed or even divided over disagreements about medications or therapy frameworks. The controversy on whether to prescribe Medication Assisted Therapy such as Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder, often divides clinicians and Church ministries. Sometimes there is disagreement on recommending psychotherapy or biblical counseling.

CME Accredited

Diana Moser-Burg, PhD

The integration of trauma knowledge into practice is often a challenge in the human services field, and with the lack of integrated care options, there's even less models of this high quality care. This workshop will focus on how to provide trauma informed best practice in an integrated care setting on a non-profit budget. Creating a healing environment that is culturally sensitive will be addressed and tools provided to support more culturally relevant care. Co-Presenter Kyle Ferlic

CME Accredited

Tara Samples, PhD

As the Medical Workforce is predominantly female, and women shoulder the societal burden of caregiving, work/life balance for caregivers of young or medically fragile family members has long been an underexplored topic in medical administration. The pandemic has further illuminated the challenges of work/life balance and professional success for those with clinic based and home caregiving responsibilities. Christian health organizations strive to model respect and dignity not only to patients but also to employees.

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Marla Potter, MD

Los Angeles Christian Health Centers has been serving the Skid Row community in Downtown Los Angeles since 1995. In this session, we will review best practices in healthcare for people experiencing homelessness. We will discuss how to provide care that is patient-centered, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented, and we will explore how we can best be the hands and feet of Jesus to our most vulnerable neighbors.

CME Accredited

Shantae Rodriguez, PA-C with Kristin Moltz, PA

Trauma Informed Care is a big buzz word these days with lots of theory and concepts being promoted and taught. The challenge is how to apply these concepts to everyday patient interactions, conversations, and policies. Our hope is to educate using concrete examples of trauma informed application to patient care in a pandemic and to healthcare in general.

CME Accredited

Cheryl Ho, MD

While recent news has focused on COVID-19, people who use drugs have been hit even harder by the opioid overdose epidemic in this current fentanyl era. The goal of this workshop is to discuss a new paradigm for buprenorphine treatment: the primary goal of treatment is to prevent fatal overdose; the key outcome we measure is retention in care. Such a care model emphasizes starting and staying on buprenorphine using a low-barrier, patient-centered approach grounded in harm reduction principles. We will focus on strategies for serving highly vulnerable populations, including those who are unsheltered, use polysubstances, and/or have serious mental illness. We will highlight new strategies including microdosing, long acting injectables, and telemedicine.

CME Accredited

Bob, MDiv

Isn't faith and God something better left to chaplains and pastors? Do patients even want such interaction from their healthcare professionals? Besides, with everything else required of those professionals, how are such issues even broached with patients? Get answers and practical tips to these questions and more.

CME Accredited

Breanna Lathrop, DNP, FNP

Safety net clinics have firsthand knowledge of the social determinants affecting their communities and are actively seeking strategies to foster health equity but often lack the staff and internal capacity to address them. This session will focus on sustainable and practical strategies for clinics wanting to expand their ability to address social determinants of health. This session will also highlight why Christian leadership is essential in this space and the ways in which a social determinants of health centered approach to patient care aligns with Biblical examples of healing. Participants will also receive an overview of a free tool, the Health Equity Learning Hub, designed specifically for safety net clinics to support ongoing work around health equity.

CME Accredited

Patrick Kelly, MD

This section will examine how the experience of suffering, both past and present, affects the potential for human flourishing, seeking to synthesize the most recent literature on this point. The reason for doing so it that as clinicians treating suffering patients, not merely in the midst of a global pandemic but more importantly in the everyday reality of chronic, often intractable, incurable diseases, this question of the potential paradox of flourishing may have powerful value. To ask further questions, is it the case that our patient's suffering invariably mitigates against flourishing? Or can there possibly be a paradoxical relationship? That is to say, does suffering hold within it the potential of contributing to greater degrees of flourishing in a way in which our current understanding does not fully take into account? In our review of the literature on flourishing, the question we will keep in mind will be, is it possible for patients to reach these proposed levels of flourishing with the character trait formation associated with them without first passing through challenges, hardships and even suffering?

CME Accredited

William Griffin, DDS

Our efforts to provide excellent, compassionate treatment for our patients can open huge doors to address their spiritual needs. This session will provide an introduction to the CMDA "Faith Prescriptions" video series, a collection of 25 episodes created to equip and inspire us to communicate the love of Christ to our patients with gentleness and respect.

CME Accredited

Jason Grahame, PA-C

Faced with ever-increasing demands, many times clinicians try to tackle the workload by “dividing and conquering”. This session will highlight the benefits of thoughtfully training and discipling like-minded students who can become future partners to expand your medical ministry. Jason’s presenting panel members are Thaddeus Franz, Misti Grimson, and Faye Hodgin.

CME Accredited

Greg Delaney, BS with Elizabeth Delaney

At this session we will explore substance use disorder as a chronic medical condition, its impact on the brain, the influence of trauma and opportunities for communities of faith to become better educated and certified to more effectively serve clients, congregants and their families impacted by substance use disorder.

CME Accredited

Jeremy Crider, MD

Modern medicine leads to social iatrogenesis, including prodigal spending on “health,” “medicalizing” normal life from conception to death and morphing clinicians into determiners of ability to work, drive, etc., creating an angst laden “risk management” obsession, and the introduction of “medical morality.” Medicine creates cultural iatrogenesis including the maintenance and amplification of what is a foreign and invasive perspective of suffering and death. Let us reflect on these ideas as we strive to be a faithful manifestation of the health and shalom.

CME Accredited

Casey Clardy, PhD, MDiv

Research trends demonstrate that as many as 26% of primary care patients experience passive suicidal ideation and up to 15% experience active suicidal ideation. Studies show that approximately 77% of individuals who die by suicide have a health care visit within the year prior to death. How many of those patients interacted with clinical staff who felt as though they had the requisite time, knowledge, skill, confidence, training, or resources to adequately assess and treat their patients presenting with high risk mental health complexity? In this interactive workshop, we will review how to conduct a suicidal/homicidal risk assessment within a brief primary care visit. Practical strategies and tools will be provided using case examples and evidenced-based practices to increase the knowledge and confidence of clinical staff in primary care risk assessment and intervention.

CME Accredited

Scott Carow, PT

Do you have patients coming into your clinic with primary complaints of neuromusculoskeletal disorders? Do you find that it is difficult to find adequate therapy resources to help these patients? We’d like to share from our experience of offering physical therapy at MercyMed Columbus. We will talk about the need for physical therapy in the poor community, the resources required to open a physical therapy clinic in your facility, and lessons we have learned after offering physical therapy at MercyMed for the past two years. Co-Presenter: Casey Valencia

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Linda Blackiston, RDH, BS

Every year thousands of people are being sexually exploited in the U.S. Allied health professionals often encounter these victims, and proper training increases the likelihood they can identify and respond properly to the situation. This session will deepen your knowledge on risk factors, vulnerabilities, and health concerns that affect trafficking victims, along with the tactics of the traffickers that prey on these individuals. Understanding the mindset of the victim and the trafficker better equips healthcare professionals to develop appropriate response protocols for the safest outcome.

CME Accredited

Alyssa Vasquez, MA

Over the last two years we have seen and experienced how a lack of trust, limited information and past history can impact an individual’s ability to listen and ask questions about COVID-19 vaccinations and conversations around diversity. This session explores the top three fears white people and people of color have around discussing diversity in organizations. While engaging with these best practices to dismantle these fears, we will explore the importance of understanding and implementing psychological safety. Co-Presenter Jael Chambers