Esther Kim, MD with Panel

Join us for a panel discussion with support staff from Ethne Health, a community clinic located in Clarkston, GA, a city dubbed the "most diverse square mile in the America." The staff will share how their previous work experiences, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and their faith have helped them care for a diverse group of patients, with care provided in over 30 different languages. We hope their stories of hope and healing will be a catalyst to attendees to begin thinking about ways they can care for the refugees and immigrants in their communities.

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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 Contino, MD, CEO with Sean Lindsey, MD

Clarkston, Georgia has been a center for refugee resettlement since the 1980s. As a result, this small town just outside Atlanta has earned the title of “America’s most diverse square mile.” In 2017 Ethne Health was founded as a primary care clinic to serve this population and show Jesus’ love. In this session, the founding physicians of Ethne will explore the unique challenges of providing holistic care for refugees in a primary care setting. We will review how a person becomes a refugee, discuss the biblical mandate for refugee care, and tell the story of how Clarkston's unique makeup Clarkston has shaped our response to Jesus’s command to “love thy neighbor.”

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

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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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

Jesse Malott, PsyD

The pandemic has brought to light the moral and spiritual challenges that healthcare professionals undergo in environments where resources and time is limited but the stakes are high. Studies show that healthcare workers are the group at highest risk of burnout and leaving their profession at a time when there are already far too few in these critical areas. This session will focus on defining the systemic and professional challenges and provide a roadmap for improving the well-being of healthcare professionals through systemic and practical changes.

Lance Lutrell, MSIE

As our organizations grow we are forced to become more sophisticated and build systems in place to continue to support the mission. Fear strikes and we think we will lose our culture. But it doesn't have to be that way. We will explore how systems and tools can help us focus on the important things. We will share the why behind reliable systems and discuss ideas on how to protect culture in the face of efficient systems.

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.