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.

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

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

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

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

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.