Workshops
Explore our curated selection of engaging workshops, insightful presentations, and thought-provoking panels designed for this year's GMMA conference. Be sure to purchase your conference ticket first. Then, complete the Workshop Form below and select the four workshops you would like to attend.
Workshop List
Educational outreach
Medical Education in Closed Countries
Shari Falkenheimer
MD, MPH, MA, PhD
Explore diverse global healthcare education opportunities in 'closed' countries, from employment to consultations, teaching, and community health worker training, leveraging Christian values to impact global health.
Compassionate Care
The Role of Nurses in Medical Missions
Rebecca Meyer
PhD, MSNed, BSN, RN
Explore the multifaceted role of nurses in healthcare, transcending cultures and languages to embody Jesus' compassion in medical missions, serving the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of diverse populations.
International Career
Launching Your International Healthcare Career
Nicholas Comninellis
MD
International healthcare careers involve unusual diseases, limited resources, and cultural challenges, requiring prayerful, analytical decision-making, specialty selection, language learning, and personal management, all undergirded by determination and faith.
Mission Evolution
From the Old Face to the New Face of Medical Missions in East Asia: What? No Mission Hospitals?
Neil Thompson
MD
Explores the evolution of medical missions in East Asia from the traditional mission hospital model, pioneered by James Hudson Taylor, to the current approach of medical missionary entrepreneurs in regions without mission hospitals.
Mission Planning
Producing long-term effects with short-term medical missions
James Lau
MD
Most busy medical professionals have difficulties spending a lot of time in overseas medical missions. This workshop demonstrates how long-term effects can be achieved with well-planned short-term medical missions. Many examples will be illustrated in the workshop.
Mission Involvement
Faith-Work Integration on the Missions Field - Supporting Families of Neurodivergent Children
Three Kings
Discover how to blend faith and professional services to support neurodivergent families through a family's journey, sharing their mission to enrich communities globally.
Delivering Aid
Engagement with North Korea: Walking by Faith and Not by Sight
Heidi Linton
Humanitarian work in North Korea, marked by constant uncertainty and challenges, faces a significant restart amidst border closures and a changing world since 2020, highlighting lessons in faith and hope drawn from God's faithfulness over nearly 25 years of engagement.
Mental Health
Understanding Mental Health with the Lens of the Gospel
Esther Park DO
Mijin Park PsyD
Discussion on the misconception among Christians that faith in Jesus negates psychiatric issues, advocating a gospel-centered understanding of mental health.
Great Commission
Reaching Hard Places through Medical Missions
Doug Christgau
Rev
Health care missions remain a viable avenue for missionary access in increasingly closed countries, playing a crucial role in fulfilling the Great Commission. MedSend supports this by financing education debt and offering specialized member care services.
Missionary Adventures
Great Commission Stories from Rugged Places
Dr. (Colonel Retired) Robert D. Meyer, DMD, MAGD, ABGD, FICD, FADI, FACD
Dr. Diane K. Meyer, RN, BSN, MST, EdD, FICD, FACI
Presenters share powerful stories from short-term missionary trips, highlighting evangelism, cross-cultural interactions, overcoming challenges, and celebrating diversity in fulfilling the Great Commission in diverse, rugged locales.
Global Impact
Medical Ships Serving Isolated Islands
Brett & Karen Curtis
Explore YWAM Ships' global impact, delivering healthcare and spiritual support to remote islands, with a focus on Papua New Guinea, through multimedia presentations by CEO Brett Curtis.
Medical Missions
Stories of God Working in Amazing Ways in Amazing places --- Korea and China
Charles Sands PharmD
Betty Sands
Explore medical missions from 1970 to present in Korea, China, and restricted areas, using Jesus and the Samaritan woman's story as a framework for shared experiences.