CMDA Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report

Bringing the hope and healing of Christ to the world through healthcare professionals.

Serving you as you serve the Lord

Being a Christian in healthcare has never been more important and valuable than it is today. Christian healthcare professionals are facing more hostility than ever because of their faith and their desire to integrate that faith into whole person patient care.

As the nation’s largest faith-based professional healthcare organization, Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) has a priority to bring the hope and healing of Christ to the world through healthcare professionals and a promise to engage its members through Community, Advocacy, Service and Equipping to glorify God.

We long to see healthcare professionals following Christ, serving with excellence and compassion, caring for all people and advancing biblical principles impacting healthcare within the church and throughout the world.

This Annual Report looks back at some of what was achieved together in Fiscal Year 2023 and looks forward to all we want to achieve with God’s blessing in Fiscal Year 2024.

Mike Chupp, MD, FACS Chief Executive Officer CMDA

George Gonzales, MD President CMDA Board of Trustees

Community

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” (Proverbs 27:17, NIV).

“I am much better equipped now to stand up for my Christian beliefs.”

IMPACT

347 Campus Chapters

(more than 90 percent of healthcare campuses nationwide)

89 Community Chapters

Standing Strong in Training, the newest addition to CMDA’s long list of resources, was created by the Advocacy Ministry to help healthcare students and residents stand up against the cultural pressures facing Christians within healthcare today. Each of the seven on-demand video modules offers ideas of how to winsomely defend biblical values and positively interact with others in developing their worldview beliefs.

86 Side By Side Chapters

MINISTRIES

GOALS

Campus & Community Ministries (CCM)

Providing opportunities to connect with other Christian healthcare professionals, residents and students

Dental Ministries

Helping dental professionals and students integrate Christian faith into all aspects of their lives

Side By Side

Ministering to women in healthcare marriages through training, fellowship, Bible study and prayer

Specialty Sections

Equipping, networking and providing a community for colleagues within a wide variety of specialties

Women Physicians & Dentists in Christ (WPDC)

Encouraging women physicians and dentists in the unique challenges women in healthcare face

Student investment pays off. Nearly two decades ago, then-student Jennifer founded the Fellowship of Christian Physician Assistant Students on the University of Southern California campus, where Christian professor Dr. Paul Holtom introduced her to CMDA and became her mentor. Today, Dr. Jennifer Zamora serves as Chapter Advisor at UCR School of Medicine and was recently selected to serve on CMDA’s Board of Trustees. “I have matured into His calling on my life to be a healer, and I love each divine appointment with every single patient. I especially enjoy getting to pray with them.”

• Scholarships for 200 students, residents and fellows to attend our National Convention.

• Start and strengthen additional community ministry chapters.

• Launch new mentoring academy.

• Launch 10 new local WPDC groups.

• Develop more WPDC mentoring relationships.

Advocacy

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed” (Proverbs 31:8, NLT).

November 29, 2022

CMDA celebrated a final victory in its federal court case to protect the religious beliefs of healthcare professionals from being forced to perform gender-transition procedures or abortions against their conscience and best medical judgment.

“After more than six years of fighting this case in federal court, we have now set a national precedent and ensured we can continue to provide the best and safest care to our patients.”

—CMDA CEO Mike Chupp, MD, FACS

IMPACT

87 Federal and State Laws Influenced

73 Media Requests Responded To

9

CMDA Members Trained as Media Experts

Our advocacy engagement in the public square healthcare profession. By aligning with God’s procedures and treatments, preserve conscience above, left) and Nicole Hayes (right) head Christ to articulate and defend biblical truth

GOALS

• Plan and host a religious freedom event in Washington, D.C.

• Present U.S. Supreme Court case in Washington, D.C. on abortion pill.

• Release a monthly podcast, The Voice of Advocacy.

• Increase awareness of advocacy work among our members and supporters by 30 percent. square serves to uphold the traditional values of the Hippocratic Oath by speaking as an ethical voice on bioethical issues facing the God’s kingdom, will and love, we apply biblical principles to protect the beginning and end of life, protect minors from gender transition conscience freedoms for healthcare professionals and achieve justice overall for those suffering from oppression. Anna Pilato (pictured head our advocacy team’s federal and state engagement efforts. The advocacy team helps to educate, encourage and equip the body of

with love, boldness, clarity and conviction in a culture that opposes the essential and foundational truths of Christ.

Service

“And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing” (Luke 9:2, NASB).

IMPACT

2,028 Professions of Faith

25,944 Patients Treated

18 Countries

Volunteer healthcare missionaries with Global Health Outreach gave a young Nicaraguan woman a backpack filled with medical equipment and training in how to deliver basic health services.

Inspired by her training, she decided to enroll in a formal nursing program in order to better serve the sick and injured in her community.

2 NEW Partners: Philippines and Lebanon

489 Volunteers

MINISTRIES

Center for Advancing Healthcare Missions

Continuing Education for Overseas Healthcare Professionals

Domestic Missions

Medical Education

International

Global Health Outreach

Global missions made a world of difference to a physician in crisis.

“I was falling into a deep depression and had thoughts of suicide. My life and career were empty and meaningless. Fortunately, I was scheduled to go on a GHO healthcare mission trip to Ecuador. I prayed God would awaken me spiritually, and God answered my prayer: “Matt, thank you for coming to Ecuador to serve Me, but the real reason I gave you your surgical skills and abilities is to serve Me every day, right where you live.” My practice is quite different now. I use my skills and knowledge to bring glory to Jesus. I pray with my patients and lead people to the Lord. My emptiness and depression have been replaced with purpose and fulfillment.” —Matthew Montgomery, MD

GOALS

• Empower communities in developing countries to take charge of their own health.

• Train dental residents to provide advanced care and share the gospel within Muslim and economically struggling communities.

• Complete 22

Medical Education

International trips to 11 countries and 40 Global Health Outreach trips to 18 countries.

Equipping

“Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ” (Ephesians 4:12, NLT).

God is the true owner of everything, and He expects us to manage His resources well. It is Christian stewardship that motivates CMDA champion Marsha Wakefield, MD, MEd, to prioritize her finances, values and service around causes that are close to God’s heart.

Led to Christ during her freshman year of medical school, the young doctor had known of CMDA as a graduate student but was not invested fully until several years later when she was named in a malpractice suit. New to her job and in a different state, she felt vulnerable and alone. That’s when a flyer from CMDA found its way to her mailbox, inviting her to attend our National Convention. On a whim, she decided to attend. Over dinner, she was invited to join an informal prayer meeting in a hotel room with a group of women physicians, residents and students. There, Dr. Wakefield found the empathy, support and encouragement she desperately needed. One woman at that prayer meeting had recently been appointed as the first female member of CMDA’s Malpractice Commission. That physician and CMDA member called Dr. Wakefield monthly to encourage her and pray with her. Because of the profound impact CMDA had on her when she was young and vulnerable, and because she desires for the next generation of healthcare professionals to experience the same level of support she received, Dr. Wakefield is committed to faithfully stewarding God’s resources to benefit CMDA.

IMPACT

430 Continuing Education

Hours Awarded

MINISTRIES Center for Well-Being

Continuing Education Events and Tours

Life & Leadership Coaching Life & Health Resources

Marriage Enrichment

179 Traveled on International Biblical Tours

14,000 Benefitted from CMDA Today Magazine

Medical Malpractice Ministry

Member Search Member Services Placement Services

Podcasts Publications

Speakers’ Referral Bureau Stewardship Development

45 New Course Offerings in the Learning Center

GOALS

GOALS

• Develop and distribute 5 new episodes of Faith Prescriptions.

• Record and release 52 new episodes of our CMDA Matters podcast.

• Provide 501 course coach training for medical personnel in mission hospitals.