Missionary Medicine Seminar

In conjunction with Prescription for Renewal, we invite you to arrive a day early to participate in the Missionary Medicine Seminar. This Continuing Medical Education (CME) course provides participants with essential knowledge for practicing medicine on the mission field.

OBJECTIVES

▪ To prepare physicians for both short-term and long-term service at mission hospitals around the world.
▪ To provide up-to-date information from experienced medical missionary physicians on the management of diseases processes and injuries common to the mission field.
▪ To stimulate physician interest and participation in medical missionary service.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Aras and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of Orlando Health and Samaritan’s Purse/World Medical Mission, Inc. Orlando health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Orlando Health designates this educational activity for a maximum of 11 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This program is also eligible for 11 nursing contact hours. Orlando Health is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Florida Board of Nursing (Provider no. FBN2459) and the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (AP 085).

HANDS-ON DISASTERS SKILLS COURSE

A practical hands-on introduction to disaster medical response skills is being offered through the Missionary Medicine Seminar. The 2.5 hour course includes opportunities to practice surgical and orthopedic techniques that are typical in disaster situations.

SCHEDULE

To download the course schedule for the 2010 Missionary Medicine Seminar, click here. To register, call 1.800.950.2092.

COURSE FACULTY

Terry Dwelle, MD, MPHTM
Terry served as a medical missionary for 12 years in Central and East Africa, including four years at Centre Medical Evangelique Nyankunde in Zaire, concentrating on pediatrics and infectious diseases. Terry serves at the medical director of Travel Health America, an inter-denominational missionary health support organization that works with more than 8,000 missionaries worldwide. Terry is currently the State Health Officer for the North Dakota Department of Health.

Daniel Galat, MD
Dan has served as an orthopedic surgery consultant at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya since November 2008. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program in Rochester, Minnesota. Prior to medical school, Dan received a Master of Arts in Religion from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He is currently on furlough in the United States with his wife, Heather, and four children, and plans to return to Tenwek Hospital in the summer of 2011.

Ken Isaacs
Ken is the Vice President of Programs and Government Relations for Samaritan’s Purse. Over the past 24 years he has helped coordinate disaster relief and development programs and projects, traveling to more than 120 nations. He also served as the Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) within the U.S. Agency for Internal Development (USAID), and has testified before House and the Senate committees. Ken and his wife, Carolyn, have two sons and one grandson.

Brad Quist, MD
Brad graduated for Indiana University School of Medicine in 1986. He served for nine years with the US Navy in Florida, Cuba, and Guam. In addition to completing residency training in family medicine, Brad has an MPH and MBA from Johns Hopkins University. For the past 14 years, Brad and his wife, Naomi, have served as medical missionaries in Ecuador, with their two children, Nathan and Rachel. Brad is currently the director of the Latin America healthcare division for HCJB Global Hands. He has led or coordinated numerous disaster response medical teams dispatched to Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Tom Thacher, MDM
Tom attended medical school at the University of Utah and completed his family medicine training in Ventura, California. After residency in 1987, he and his family moved to Nigeria, where they worked with Campus Crusade for Christ for nearly 20 years. During his early years in Nigeria, Dr. Thacher trained community health evangelists who taught preventive health and shared the Gospel in rural villages. In 1992, he founded the Family Medicine Department at Jos University Teaching Hospital. While in Nigeria, he developed a research interest in nutritional rickets, and continues to be involved in international health and research related to vitamin D, calcium, and rickets. He joined the staff of Family Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester in 2007.

Russ White, MD
The White family has served as missionaries with World Gospel Mission at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya since 1997, where Russ is the chief of surgery. Russ received his undergraduate training at Roberts Wesleyan College, completing medical school at the University of Michigan. He received masters of public health training at Harvard University, general surgical residency at Brown University, and thoracic surgery in Bristol, England. Russ is also the program director of the surgical residency program at Tenwek Hospital, working in conjunction with the PanAfrican Academy of Christian Surgeons, and the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and South Africa. Russ is an associate clinical professor of surgery in the department of surgery at Brown University and sponsors a rotation for the Brown University surgical residents to spend time each year at Tenwek Hospital.