About Breakout Leaders
James Anderson, MD
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Dr. James Anderson is CEO of Team Care Medicine, helping doctors find greater joy by removing the load of EHR documentation, freeing them to focus on relationships with patients and medical decision-making.
Dr. Anderson is a primary care physician whose clinical career spans more than 40 years.
Now retired, he was a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was board-certified in both family medicine and emergency medicine. He has received multiple awards as a family practice educator and has helped train over 200 primary care residents.
Dr. Anderson served in the US Army Reserves and was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a former trustee of CMDA and a leader in his local church. He has served his community in a variety of volunteer leadership roles and has participated in a variety of medical mission trips. He is married, with four adult children.
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Breakout 3, Saturday 1:30pm
Room 4368
Scott Armistead, MD
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Dr. Armistead is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. He grew up in Hanover County and attended William and Mary for college and the Medical College of Virginia for medical school. He completed his Family Medicine residency in Kansas City.
He and his wife JoAnn began their missionary ministry serving in a hospital in the South Asia in 1999. They served the Lord there for 11 years with Scott serving as a hospital staff physician, while JoAnn taught missionary children at Murree Christian School. It is not currently possible for them to continue their longer term ministry in the Middle East, so they relocated to Richmond VA.
Dr. Armistead serves as Area Director for the Richmond chapter of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations. He relates to students at the VCU Medical Center. he is involved in regular meetings and provides mentorship and Bible studies along with organizing group meetings and conferences geared towards promoting healthcare missions. He has taken a number of short-term teams to Africa, including a trip that he just recently returned from. He also serves Afghan refugees who have relocated to the Richmond area.
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Breakout 1, Friday 7pm Room 4322
Breakout 2, Saturday 10am Room 4326
Joey & Natalie Bantseev
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Joey Bantseev is a medical student at Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine and married to Natalie, who is a nurse. They are passionate about healthcare missions, as evidenced by their tireless work to promote this conference! They’re expecting their first child this spring.
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Sharmayne Brooks, MD, MPH
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After a college mission trip to Mexico, Sharmayne felt called to dedicate her life to full time missions. She went to medical school while continuing to serve on the mission field, specializing in Infectious Disease at American University, Managua. At Johns Hopkins University, Sharmayne completed a master’s degree in international public health, and did an Infectious Disease fellowship, focusing on Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru. Sharmayne is involved in anti-human trafficking efforts in several developing countries and founded an NGO that supports safe houses and awareness/ prevention efforts. She serves as a medical liaison for the Rio Grande Valley Anti-Trafficking Taskforce, is chair of the CMDA Human Trafficking Commission and serves on the Amazing Grace Ministries anti trafficking team. Besides her work in combatting human trafficking, currently Sharmayne is serving at COLM, a clinic staffed solely by volunteers on the Texas- Mexico border offering free health care in an underserved community. Each year she leads and participates in medical mission teams around the world including Latin America, Jamaica, Samoa, Nigeria and Sudan.
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Breakout 1, Friday 7pm Room 4410
Breakout 4, Saturday 2:30pm Room 4272
Mariah Bywater, RN, BSN, CEN
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Mariah is a Registered Nurse from South Carolina with more than 20 years of experience in Emergency, Pediatrics, and various International Medical arenas. She has been serving with Samaritan’s Purse Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) since 2017.
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Breakout 2, Saturday 10am
Room 4322
Mike Chupp, MD, FACS
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During his fourth year of medical school, he volunteered for two months at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya where he met CEO Dr. Ernie Steury and Medical Director Dr. David Stevens. During his third year of surgical residency, God brought Mike’s high school sweetheart Pam back into his life, and they married in August 1991. A few months later, they traveled to Kenya and Tenwek Hospital in 1992 for two months where both enjoyed getting to know the Tenwek community while Mike was immersed in surgical care in a busy surgery referral center in rural Africa.
Mike completed a general surgery residency at Methodist Hospital in 1993 and then joined Southwestern Medical Clinic, a group in Southwest Michigan dedicated to global healthcare missions. Former CMDA and ICMDA president Dr. Bob Schindler and his wife Marian mentored Mike and Pam until their departure for Tenwek in 1996. Mike was board certified in general surgery in 1995 while working with Southwestern.
Mike was drawn to the orthopedic surgery service as Tenwek had no long-term bone surgeon. He was also named Medical Director in mid-1997. Tenwek grew remarkably during Mike’s tenure as surgeon and medical director to a clinical staff of over 80 physicians and clinical officers and more than 700 total staff. Training programs for interns, family medicine, general surgery and orthopedics were also developed and launched during those years.
Mike and Pam left for Kenya in August 1996 with two small children and added two more while at Tenwek Hospital: Steven, Melody, Kayla and Ashley.
In 2015, Dr. David Stevens invited Mike to consider returning to the U.S. to assume the role of CMDA Executive Vice President. After seven months of prayer and seeking counsel from mission leaders, mentors and close friends, Pam and Mike decided to leave their Kenya home and mission life of 20 years and moved to Bristol, Tennessee in July 2016. Mike has counted it an amazing privilege to serve alongside David Stevens and Gene Rudd and all the national CMDA staff for nearly four years. In September 2018, after an eight-month CEO search process, the Board of Trustees asked Mike to become the next CEO of CMDA and he began September 1, 2019, when Dr. Stevens stepped down. Mike’s life verses are from 2 Timothy 1:6-7: “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you…for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control” (ESV). To God be the glory, great things He has done!
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Breakouts 3 & 4, Saturday 1:30 & 2:30
Room 4326
Emmanuel Clotted, DrPH, MPH
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Dr. Emmanuel Clottey is a Professor of Public and Community Health in the Department of Public and Community Health. He holds an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry, three master;s degrees in divinity, Theology, and Public Health and a doctorate in Public Health. Dr. Clottey is a M. Alfred Haynes Research Training Institute for Social Equity Scholar from Meharry Medical College and a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). He did a Chaplain residency and served as a Chaplain at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He was the Senior Pastor of St. Peters Methodist Church and the Superintendent Minister of the Methodist Church in Kenya (Langata Circuit), overseeing ten congregations and community schools. He also served as the Supervisor of two Community-based projects for vulnerable children in Kenya; Tusaidie Watoto Nursery School and Wesley Empowerment Center jointly run by the Methodist Church in Kenya and the Karibuni Trust. Dr. Clottey is passionate about sharing the gospel and serving underserved populations. He has contributed to articles in peer-reviewed journals and to chapters in two books: Pathways into the Political Arena: The Perspectives of Global Women Leaders and The International Handbook of Psychopathic Disorders and the Law (2d Ed.). His research interests include Community health education, obesity, leadership, and the contribution of Faith-Based Organizations to Public Health. He is a member of the American Public Health Association (APHA), the Christian Connection for International Health (CCIH), and the Technical Exchange for Christian Healthcare (TECH).
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Charles V. Collins, MDiv
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Charlie is an author and financial consultant. He grew up on a dairy farm in the small town of Newberry SC and has been married to Kathy for 47 years. They have two sons, John and Josh, a daughter in law, Suzanne, and grandsons, Linus and Norman. They met in college at Univ. of SC, married, and have experienced most every aspect of marriage from deep pain, perpetrated by the enemy and their own flesh, to the joy of the discovery of intimacy, led by the Holy Spirit through those decades.
Charlie has an BA from USC, and a M.Div. from Columbia International University. He was a consultant and sales manager for several years, then served as a pastor in South Carolina and Arkansas, until 1986. He has spent the past 37 years guiding others as a financial and business consultant. His goal of 50/50 work/ministry was reached 7 years ago, and while he continues to serve 35 clients, he spends the rest of his time with family and in ministry, helping people find their heart and live out of their passions.
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Angela Fite, RN, BSN
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Angela is an alumni from Liberty Universtiy School of Nursing. She is originally from Northern VA. She has 7 years of experience as a Registered Nurse in Emergency Nursing and various medical/teaching roles in international settings. She has been a member of Samaritan's Purse Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) since 2020.
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Breakout 2, Saturday 10am
Room 4322
Rick Donlon, MD
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Rick Donlon grew up in New Orleans and graduated from Texas Christian University in 1986. He completed medical school at LSU-N.O., and a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. In 1995 he and three medical school classmates opened a primary-care health center in Memphis’ most medically underserved neighborhood. The work eventually grew to include eight health centers, three dental clinics, and a family medicine residency program—providing over 170,000 patient visits annually.
Beginning in 2003, many of the medical and dental providers, including Dr. Donlon, moved into the underserved communities where they work. In those same low-income settings, they’ve planted over a dozen house churches. That house church network has subsequently sent dozens of long-term medical missionaries to North Africa, Central
and South Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa.
In September of 2020, Dr. Donlon became the Memphis Area Director for the Christian Medical and Dental Associations (while continuing to practice medicine half time).
Physicians, dentists, and other healthcare workers who’ve trained with Dr. Donlon in
Memphis have started or joined similar ministries in low-income communities across the US. Dr. Donlon, his wife Laurie, and their seven children live in the Binghampton neighborhood where he serves as an elder in the house church network.
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Early Bird, Saturday, 8am Room 4322
Breakout 3, Saturday, 1:30pm Room 4272
Michael Gayle, MD
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Dr. Gayle is a medical missionary with ABWE at Hopital Baptiste Biblique (HBB) in Togo, West Africa. He is a Family Medicine physician by training and had a private practice in West Virginia for 20 years before the Lord moved him to career missions in 2001. He has been a member of the HBB team since 2004. He’s now on Home Assignment as Ambassador for the HBB Vision Project, raising funds and recruiting for the expansion of the facilities, with an eye towards instituting a Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) surgical Residency.
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Early Bird Breakout, Saturday 8am
Room 4410
Mkiyah Gonzalez, FNP-C
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Mkiyah Gonzalez is a Certified Nurse Practitioner with a passion for exploring different cultures. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Hampton University and served for four years as a nurse in the Army. She later completed her nurse practitioner training at Frontier Nursing University.
Mkiyah is grateful to work at the Fredericksburg Christian Health Center, where she can address healthcare needs and share the love of Christ. She has had the opportunity to be part of short-term missions in Guatemala and Peru. She speaks conversational Spanish and enjoys doing life with her husband of 21 years and their five children.
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Breakout 1, Friday 7pm Room 4272
Breakout 2, Saturday 10am Room 4410
Lisa Gazan, MSN/Ed, RN (PhD in progress)
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Professor Lisa Gazan joined the Liberty School of Nursing in the Fall of 2020 bringing with her a varied background in nursing education, home care, hospice case management, training, and leading. She is experienced in the development, implementation, and growth of new programs including a health careers academy, the spearheading of foundational work for accreditation approval of a new BSN program, and the development of a newly expanded hospice. At Liberty she has developed the Cross-Cultural Nursing class and taught a variety of other courses. She has also led nursing abroad trips and is currently working on her PhD in nursing education with an emphasis on Cross-Cultural Nursing.
She was born and raised until the age of 12 years old in Guatemala, Central America where her parents served as missionaries, and she attended school in Spanish and German. She and her husband served as missionaries in Kenya, East Africa, and in the U.S. preparing and training new missionaries.
A favorite verse is Psalm 138:8, “The Lord will fulfill His purpose for me.” She loves joining others in their professional journey and helping them fulfill God’s unique purpose and plan for them.
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Breakout 4, 2:30pm Saturday
Room 4368
Bill Griffin, DDS
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Dr. William Griffin serves as the Vice President for Dental Ministries with the Christian Medical & Dental Associations. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame and his DDS degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. His 38 years in private practice included regular international dental mission trips and involvement with various local efforts to help the dentally needy.
In addition, he has served with a Pregnancy Resource Center and a Classical Christian School. His greatest passion in life is communicating the love of Christ, in word and in deed, through healthcare. He and his wife Linda have been married since 1983.
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Breakout 1, Friday 7pm
Room 4326
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Early Bird Breakout, Saturday 8am
Room 4272
Timothy Jennings, MD, DLFAPA
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Dr. Jennings obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric residency at Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia. Dr. Jennings served as the Division Psychiatrist for the 24th and 3rd Infantry Divisions and as Chief of Psychiatry at Winn Army Hospital in Fort Stewart, Georgia. After completing his military service, he spent 25 years in private practice and then, in 2022, became the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Dr. Jennings is board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, is a master psychopharmacologist certified by the Neuroscience Education Institute, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and Fellow of the Southern Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Jennings also served as president of the Tennessee and Southern Psychiatric Associations and is a member of the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, Southern Psychiatric Association, and American Association of Christian Counselors. He is also the founder and president of Come and Reason Ministries, a 501(c)(3) non-profit Christian ministry based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Dr. Jennings has spent decades studying and integrating God’s principles for healing the mind and modern brain science and has authored many books. Many of his free resources can be found at www.comeandreason.com
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Breakout 3, Saturday 1:30pm
Room 4464
Pastor Bert Jones
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Pastor Bert Jones serves CMDA as the Vice President of Missions and Member Care. In this position he oversees all of CMDA's mission ministries and the Center for Well-Being. Pastor Bert has written two books on Leadership with Dr. David Stevens. His most recent book is called "A Leadership Journal from a Leaders' Journey". Bert travels nationally and internationally preaching and teaching.
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Breakout 2, Saturday 10am
Room 4082
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Breakout 4, Saturday 2:30pm
Room 4410
David Kim, MD/MBA
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Dr David Kim is a physician, co-founder and currently CEO of Beacon Christian Community Health Center (“Beacon”), which missionally serves an underserved, diverse population in Staten Island, New York City. He has a heart for "bringing Jesus into the exam room" and has spent many years hosting, teaching, training and mentoring students, residents and fellow medical colleagues in hopes of raising a new generation of health professionals who will practically live out their faith in their work and life. Beacon has lived out its Jeremiah 29:7 commitment to "shalom" for its community by taking the lead locally and regionally in addressing such crises as Superstorm Sandy, COVID-19, and most recently, the migrant refugee/asylee crisis.
Dr. Kim graduated from State University of NY Health Sciences Center of Brooklyn, College of Medicine (“Downstate”), and completed his Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at Staten Island University Hospital and Kings County/Downstate Hospital. He went on later to receive his Healthcare MBA from George Washington University School of Business, Washington, D.C. He is the blessed husband of Dr. Janet Kim, and a fortunate father to four incredible children.
Beacon offers, in the backdrop of the unique international and socioeconomic mission field of New York City, targeted student and resident rotations which combine comprehensive clinical and community experiences with teaching sessions which offer a didactic, Scripture-centric approach to healthcare.
More info can be found at www.beaconcchc.com, its teaching ministry, www.beacon360.org, or by contacting Dr. Kim at davidk@beaconcchc.com, or Dr. Jeeji Mathunny, Student Ministry Coordinator, at jeejim@beaconcchc.com.
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Breakout 3, Saturday 1:30pm
Room 4410
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Breakout 4, Saturday 2:30pm
Room 4086
Tom Kollars, Jr., PhD, Mac, MDiv, FACE
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Dr. Tom Kollars has over 30 years of international experience in Emergency Response to (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High Yield Explosives), Biology, Epidemiology, Education and Public health, where he has led and collaborated on chronic, infectious, and vector-borne disease projects in over 50 countries with over 1,500 scientists and physicians.
Tom retired after 23 years in the Army at the rank of LTC, having served in Combat Arms and Preventive Medicine and Emergency Response. His last position held in the Army was as the Brigade Surgeon of the 415th Chemical Brigade USAR, with the responsibility of oversight of medical operations for over 2,500 military and civilian personnel in the event of a release of Weapons of Mass Destruction in North America, and held a TS/SCI clearance. Tom is a certified team leader and instructor in CMAT, FEMA and CMU and has the highest certification in emergency management in the DoD, and has experience in WMD planning and evaluation, and product development and testing.
Tom has been an instructor and senior consultant in numerous organizations including the Department of State, Department of Defense, the Smithsonian Institute, businesses, and the World Health Organization.
Dr. Kollars has also worked as a senior scientific consultant in the BTEP and TADR programs for HHS and DoD and led Red Cell teams and advised during national and international exercises.
Tom has served as a department director in academia and private firms with oversight over international health program management, infectious disease epidemiology, vector-borne diseases, molecular biology, immunology and GIS modeling and pharmaceutical/vaccine development.
Tom is also fond of teaching and has taught K-12, undergraduate and graduate science and public health courses in several countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Central America. As an entrepreneur,
Dr. Kollars’ inventions have been featured on international media, e.g., Scientific American, Discovery Channel, CNN’s Inside Africa and TBN. Dr. Kollars was a fully certified pest control operator in the Army, Air Force and Navy and since retiring, is president and CEO of his own pest control company with operations in Georgia and South Carolina.
Tom is honored to serve as the Vector Control Consultant, Epidemiologist and Health Care Chaplain for the Afro European Medical and Research Network (AEMRN) and their former North American Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Dr. Kollars has over 80 peer reviewed publications.
Tom is also an accomplished classical, jazz, and gospel trombonist having played internationally with symphonies and big bands. He also composes music using algorithms based on nucleic acid sequences and molecular elements, coding for chords, notes and words with the goal of spreading God’s Word around the world.
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Doug Lindberg, MD, FAAFP
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Doug joined CMDA as the director for the Center for Advancing Healthcare Missions (CAHM) in 2020. He and his wife Ruth are both family physicians. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2003, completed his family medicine residency at Waukesha Family Practice Residency outside Milwaukee in 2006, and did a one-year rural health fellowship at East Tennessee State University.
The Lindbergs served in Nepal as missionaries from 2009 -13, and Doug served as the medical director at HDCS TEAM Hospital Dadeldhura. They returned to the US in 2013 for what was intended to be a one-year home assignment. But a series of events, including a life-threatening cancer diagnosis for Ruth, led them to permanently relocate back to Wisconsin. Ruth is now miraculously cancer free since 2015. Doug is thrilled to utilize his experiences as a healthcare missionary and family physician to advance the cause of healthcare missions with CMDA. In addition to his work for CAHM, he continues to practice part-time as an urgent care physician for ProHealth Care. He has two children, Maddie (2008) and James (2011).
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Early Bird Breakout, Saturday 8am
Room 4326
Caroline Mrowiec, OTR/L
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Caroline Mrowiec Caroline received her Masters in Occupational Therapy from Midwestern University and completed a fellowship at Memorial Hermann to specialize in neurological conditions. Caroline has a special interest in medical missions and spent three years volunteering with a nonprofit organization in Vietnam to start a therapy center for children with special needs, and has published a book on her experiences there.
Caroline also has a passion for therapeutic photography. She has run programs with children and developed a new program for adults. Recently, Caroline moved to Tennessee to help start a therapy farm with services based in animal and nature-assisted intervention.
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Breakout 1, Friday 7pm
Room 4368
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Larry Mathers, MD, FAAFP
Rachel Mathers, FNP
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Larry Mathers, a physician, and his wife Rachel, a nurse practitioner, have been happily married over 26 years.
They live, work and minister in Newport Tennessee, where their two wonderful children Laura, 17, and Eli, 14, were born and raised.
They view their medical work as a calling and since 2003 have worked with Rural Medical Services (RMS), an FQHC dedicated to caring for the underserved. Larry is chief medical officer of RMS and chief of staff at Tennova Newport Medical Center. He practices full spectrum family medicine with obstetrics, caring for adults, children and expectant mothers. Rachel works for RMS as a primary care nurse practitioner.
Larry and Rachel are committed to various ministries and leadership roles in their church and community. Larry serves as a deacon, an adult Sunday school teacher and has worked on various church committees. Rachel has served on the mission and personnel committees. Together with their children, they help lead worship each week. Larry has coached AYSO soccer for several years and Rachel has served as president of the community swim board and volunteers at their children's school in a variety of roles. In addition, they provide support to several overseas missionaries and Christian service organizations.
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Breakout 1, Friday 7pm Room 4082
Early Bird Breakout, Saturday 8am Room 4082
Olubukola (Bucky) Ojuola, MD, MPH
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Olubukola (Bukky) Ojuola is a pediatrician and educator who is passionate about promoting child health and preventive medicine interventions for children and women in resource-poor communities.
Dr. Ojuola earned her medical degree from University of Ilorin, Nigeria, obtained her MPH from Harvard University, and completed her Pediatrics residency at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital in New York. In her role as Child Survival Specialist at World Relief, she provided technical support for USAID-funded programs designed to reduce childhood morbidity and mortality in Asian and African nations. She currently serves as Chair of the Pediatrics Department at Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Ojuola is a Christian professional with a strong desire to serve God with excellence through her service to others. She serves in her local church in Lynchburg, alongside her husband. She enjoys cooking, singing, and traveling to discover new places.
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Breakout 4, Saturday 2:30pm
Room 4464
Natalie Pickering, PhD, BCC, ACC
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Dr. Natalie Cupples Pickering is an organizational psychologist, board-certified coach, wife, mom, Ironman triathlon finisher, and an Enneagram style 1. She loves good coffee, mountains, deep conversation and supporting transformation. Her mission is to equip, inspire and empower wholehearted professionals and leaders in the workplace, community, and the home to promote personal and professional flourishing.
She is the CEO of High Places Coaching and Consulting, Inc. and is the Organization Development psychologist at a government healthcare system where she specializes in leadership development, burnout prevention and emotional intelligence.
Dr. Pickering enjoys supporting emerging leaders in the development of their leader identity and translating this to performance impact to build resilient people, teams, and organizations. She has significant experience supporting healthcare professionals across settings and specialties and served as a global worker in West Africa. Dr. Pickering's experience also includes work with public and private schools, hospitals, community mental health centers, not-for-profits, local businesses, solopreneurs, universities, and government agencies. She has developed and managed an internal Employee Assistance Program (EAP) program and coached and consulted executive leadership of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations across various industries.
Learn more at www.yourhighestplace.com
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Breakout 2, Saturday 10am Room 4082
Breakout 3, Saturday 1:30, Room 4272
Skip Roy, PT, MHA
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Skip obtained his BS from Penn State and his Physical Therapy training from Duke. He also has his Masters in Health Administration from Pfeiffer University.
He worked for over 50 years at WakeMed as a physical therapist, and served as manager of Acute Rehabilitation Services. Although retired from his official duties there, he continues to volunteer at WakeMed. He has been involved with healthcare missions work, serving as the Director of Physical Therapy for Alliance Medical Ministry and as a volunteer Physical Therapist at Tenwek Hospital. He also has participated on Samaritan’s Purse Disaster Response Teams.
He has received numerous awards for his distinguished service including Outstanding Physical Therapist (NCPTA), Olive Wortman Service Award (NCPTA), President’s Award (NCPTA), and Circle of Quality Service (WakeMed).
Skip is married to Brenda, his wife of soon to be 49 years. He has a son and 4 grandchildren ages 10, 7, 6 and 2. He enjoys running. He is involved in multiple church activities including chairing the mission team.
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Panel Participant
Breakout 3, Saturday 1:30pm
Natalie Rhoads, JD
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Natalie is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Liberty University School of Law, focusing her teaching and scholarship in the areas of First Amendment law and family law. Natalie got an undergraduate degree in International Relations from Liberty University undergrad, then earning a Juris Doctorate from Liberty University School of Law. Drawn to the study of law to address violations of human rights that occur across the globe, Natalie developed a working knowledge of how the United States Constitution safeguards individual liberty against tyranny. She clerked post-graduation on the Virginia Court of Appeals, handling criminal appeals and matters of domestic relations. Now, as a professor, she is developing her own research on how the law protects freedom of thought, human dignity, and inalienable rights.
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Breakout 3, Saturday 1:30pm Room 4322
Breakout 4, Saturday 2:30pm Room 4322
Deidra Simpson, PharmD
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Dr. Deidra Simpson is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at Liberty University, teaching BSN, MSN, and DNP students. While her specialty is cardiology, she has interest in precision and functional medicine. Having been a military spouse and a missionary in East Asia, both of which required frequent transitions, she has experiences in various aspects of pharmacy from consulting, academic detailing, clinical practice, and ambulatory care. However, teaching has always been her passion. Dr. Simpson also considers it a privilege to be the International Student Support Faculty for the School of Nursing, providing mentorship and support for the International Students and TCKs within the program. Her greatest joy is knowing the students personally, speaking truth and life into their lives.
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Breakout 1, Friday 7pm
Room 4086
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Katherine Stinar, AFC
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Katie has a passion to see American believers gain the knowledge and confidence to manage finances well and the humility to use the money under their control to build God's Kingdom instead of their own. She is an Accredited Financial Counselor.
In addition to speaking, she also provides one-on-one and couples financial counseling and coaching and teaches personal finance classes to teens and adults. She is married to Theron Stinar, D.O., C.E.O. of the Fredericksburg Christian Health Center. They live in the Fredericksburg, VA area with two of their three children.
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Breakout 4, Saturday 2:30pm
Room 4082
Theron Stinar, DO, FAAFP
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Dr. Stinar is a family physician who has been trying to live for Jesus since the 8th grade. He served on active duty in the Army for 7 years, to include directing a clinic in Germany and deploying for a year in Afghanistan. In 2013 his wife felt called to start her own ministry, and God led the family to Virginia where Dr. Stinar could work part time at the Fredericksburg Christian Health Center and spend more time with family. In 2016 he transitioned back to full time work, and in 2017 assumed leadership of the ministry.
Dr. Stinar has learned to live missionally beyond the scope of third world countries, but also while in uniform, or an exam room, or providing medical care to the homeless, or to those in a church, or in the crowd of a heavy metal concert.... wherever you find yourself you can reflect the Light of Christ.
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Early Bird Breakout, Saturday 8am Room 4368
Breakout 2, Saturday 10am Room 4464