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

Benjamin McKinney, MD

Desires for justice, change, impact, external fruit, or missional medicine are great pursuits, but a heart that truly changes the world is one that is rooted in love. First a love for God and then a love for others. Let us return again to the enduring foundation of our first love. Let us find the joy, peace, and holiness that is found in knowing God and his word. It is in an intimate relationship with God that our world will be changed as we run on His power and finish the race well.

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.

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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.

Katie Stinar, AFC

In Luke 14:33 (AMP) Jesus says, "So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not [carefully consider the cost and then for My sake] give up all his own possessions." As high income earners, how can medical professionals protect themselves from the spiritual threats posed by their own affluence? And how does one pursue a career in ministry when saddled with student loan debt?

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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.

Jody Buttery, RN with Josh Bytwerk

This session will tell the story of how empathetic relationships can change assumptions and keep patients and clients from a victim mentality. How a small mid-western non-profit scaled its services, united a community, and is reshaping hearts by partnering health-care with compassion services.

CME Accredited

Carena Chai, DO

Take a journey exploring the epidemic level of mental health disorders in the US that has made primary care the de facto mental health system. Hear how primary care clinicians can overcome the growing lack of access to mental and behavioral health specialty services. Discover how the Waco Guide to Psychopharmacology, a free, tangible, evidence-based, point-of-care tool providing high-quality mental and behavioral health care support, is helping busy primary care clinicians to make impactful treatment decisions.

Jonathan Wilson, MD

Inviting participants who are new to CCHF into the adventure that is being a healthcare worker committed to caring for the poor in the name of Jesus. Drawing on the on the rhythms of Jubilee and Sabbath from OT scholar Dr. Michael Rhodes we will unpack this life changing, life giving adventure that will bring you joy! We'll unpack why this is such a wonderful calling and invite you into it! Co-Presenter: Michael Rhodes, PhD.

Bill White, MDiv

Bill and Katy White got married 6 weeks before she entered medical school in 1992. They had not prepared well for the intensity and the pressures. This seminar will talk frankly about the challenges of having a “medical marriage” and will create space for Q & A. We’ll tell plenty of stories and share plenty of hard earned insights that hopefully can be adapted to other marriages. www.SmallChurchBigTable.com.

Joe Weidner, MD with panel

The most common model for primary healthcare in underserved settings is the FQHC framework. While FQHCs have afforded vast numbers of US communities with care they would not otherwise have had access to, this panel will discuss other financially viable models for Christian healthcare for the poor. Two clinics and a faith-based consulting team will discuss their experience with outside-of-the-box models of care, supported by private practice, concierge patients, and/or a nonprofit foundation." Panelist: Cheryl Ho; Angel Bymaster

Paul Violanti, DNP

An anecdotal review of birthing a Global Health program from within a Community Health Center. Co-Presenter: Han Moe

Kim Swyden, Pastor

1. Consider the process of leading your board to develop a succession plan for the founder, leader, or executive director.

2. Getting succession buy-in from staff, board and ministry partners

3. Implementing the succession plan

James Shultz, MDiv, DMin

Christians can be so concerned with how to share the gospel that they often fail to consider where the person is spiritually and when, or even if, they should share the gospel. Refined through tens of thousands of spiritual encounters, this session offers a framework for discerning where a person is spiritually and how to encourage each person to take a step toward Christ regardless of where they may presently be in their faith journey.

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.

Dr. Clarice, MD

Please join me in a discussion on finding home and purpose in a foreign place while learning how to thrive. We will discuss spiritual disciplines and the grace of God. Growing in trust and rest.

Natalie Richard, MHA, BSN, RN

I am the Lord who heals you (Ex.15:26). Healing prayer provides faith benefits that enhance medical healing results. This way of treating encompasses whole person care, body, mind, and spirit. Therefore, healing prayer should not focus solely on bodily healing but integrate targeted prayers concerning root causes, which exacerbate medical illness, in addition to praying over the mind and spirit. This session will include cases and personal experiences related to my nursing career and being part of a healing prayer team. This session will also provide strategies for healing prayer that draw people to healing and to the heart of God.

Dakota Price, MD

Medical careers are always pushing us to look for the "next step'' whether that be residency, fellowship, new job, or even medical mission opportunities abroad. I want to share my journey and pitfalls we should avoid to try to escape the “fence jumping” tendencies in today’s society. And live more towards contentment in knowing our Good Shepherd and our role under him.