Morgan Wills, MD, MATS

Not all those in the CCHF movement are called to be medical professionals, but all of us will at some point be called to become patients. How do we do that faithfully? And how might we encourage our current or future patients to do so? Using stories from Scripture, his career serving immigrants and refugees at Siloam Health in Nashville, and his own recent personal experience as a wounded healer, Dr. Wills will invite workshop participants into a vision of what it means to follow Christ in the often confusing world of modern medicine. By situating illness and medicine within a larger story, we will consider how Jesus offers the illness experience as an opportunity to disciple all of us--on both sides of the white coat.

Robert Record, MD

We each enter incarnational healthcare ministry through a calling to serve our neighbors, especially those who struggle. Our practices and our team members are missional, engaged and resilient on the good end and overly-expectant and prone to disillusionment on the struggling end. The massive amount of need around us and the complexity of modern medical practice management are more than enough in themselves. Couple these with our missional needs and ever-growing volume, and it is easy to see how we might struggle to have a culture that meets our ideals. and culture is not enough, we want organizational health.

Debra Ortiz-Vasquez, JD

Over the past decade, Esperanza Health Center (EHC) has sought to meaningfully educate and leverage community members to be resources for health and wellness in their spheres of influence. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic propelled us to think creatively around ways to equitably employ community members, thus extending our presence in the community and our ability to respond to emerging needs. This session will utilize EHC’s Community COVID Ambassador program, developed in response to COVID-19 fears and misinformation, as a case study in equitable community engagement. We will also touch on other engagement models. Panel: Lianette Pappaterra, MPH; Maryann Salib, DO, MPH; Anna Cole; Darlene Burton (Community Covid Ambassador)

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.

Anna Rowell, Medical Student with Rebecca Li

Often, the journey to medical school is seen as a step-by-step path that must be followed, with any deviation from it being seen as abnormal. However, through our own personal experiences, we have seen how a gap year can have a profound impact on a student’s view of medicine and life in community. In this session, we will share how God used our gap year experiences in Memphis, TN and Clarkston, GA to change and grow us, as well as teach us what the Great Commission looks like in our everyday interactions. This session is open to anyone interested in learning about missional gap year(s), and how students can benefit from these experiences

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

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.

Candace Dolph

Where do I fit? What is my role? These are questions that the non-medical partner must grapple with. This session will explore ways to cultivate the spiritual gifts that God has given you. Help identify pitfalls that come from overvaluing or undervaluing the medical ministry of your partner. Provide ways to develop life-giving habits of growth and resiliency that help sustain you through the highs and lows of medical ministry.