Kristin Martel

Dr. Martel serves as a staff physician at Siloam Health in Nashville, TN. During her first year of medical school, Dr. Martel had several experiences where the Lord opened her eyes and moved her to want to pursue the practice of medicine in underserved communities. She was blessed to have an early elective working with Christian physicians who were living out the Gospel as they cared for the refugees and immigrants in Nashville where she experienced relational, intentional, faith based care for the poor and alien. This practice of whole person care for the poor provided passion and purpose throughout her medical school training.

She and her husband Ben have three adventurous, energetic children. They met during Internal Medicine/Pediatric residency at Vanderbilt. He now practices as a hospitalist in Nashville. They share a common passion for mentoring students and caring for those from other cultures. And love that God brought them together to practice medicine for His glory.

Jason StevensJanuary 13, 2021preceptorship, refugee, global healthcare, integrated spiritual care, training years

Ben McKinney

Dr. McKinney currently lives in South Dallas and works at an inner city clinic in the south side of Dallas called City Square Health Services Clinic.

Dr. McKinney graduated from Baylor University and the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He completed residency in Memphis, Tennessee at Resurrection Health Family Medicine Residency.

Dr. McKinney and his wife have two young daughters. Ben was radically transformed by the Grace of God prior to entering medical school and began to slowly understand God’s heart for the entire world, for His name to be made much of, and his unique love for the orphan, widow, sojourner and poor, as well as the pharisee.

He quickly learned how medicine can be used to proclaim and demonstrate the gospel and show the love of Christ to these populations.

Matt Rafalski

Dr. Rafalski serves as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Heart of Texas Community Health Center, in Waco Texas. Dr. Rafalski is a family physician who has been in practice for 18 years.

A graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he completed his Family Medicine residency at East Tennessee State University – Bristol. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Clinical Informatics, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. His experiences include full spectrum family medicine from obstetrics to geriatric/nursing home care, group and solo practice, and teaching and lecturing. For 14 years, he worked at Dayspring Family Health Center in the heart of rural Appalachia. He served as physician as well as Clinical IT director at Dayspring.

At the Heart of Texas Community Health Center, he is responsible for Quality Improvement, Workflow, Regulatory Reporting (MU, UDS, MIPS, ACO), and PCMH recertification. Matt is an EPIC certified Physician Builder. His IT interests include Patient – Physician relationship & communication while using EHR, Clinical Decision Support Strategies/Development, and QI/PI. He and his wife are the parents of 5 children and currently resides in Waco, TX.