Steven E. Baker, MD is a family physician in Vancouver, WA. He spent 3 years as a US Navy physician and then 19 years in academic family medicine. He and his wife Jackie founded New Heights Clinic in 1996, a church-based clinic for those with no money and no insurance. In 2018, he started a Direct Primary Care clinic to serve those in the community with some money but no insurance. So Dr Baker can speak to both the charity model of care of a Christian charity clinic and the self-sustaining model of Direct Primary Care.

Nicholas is President and Professor of INMED, the Institute for International Medicine. He is also part-time faculty at the Research Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. Over a two-year period, Dr. Comninellis served inner-city citizens at Shanghai Charity Hospital. Over another two years, he led a healthcare ministry in the war-besieged nation of Angola in southern Africa. Dr. Comninellis next served for six years in the Kansas City public hospital before launching INMED in 2003. Dr. Comninellis is a classical guitarist and faculty advisor for Cru at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Rick currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) in Memphis, TN., and recently as the Interim Chief Medical Officer at Mercy Community Health Services in Franklin, TN. He also serves part-time as an emergency department physician at the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Donlon earned his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth TX, and his Doctor of Medicine from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans followed by a combined internship and residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and holds an active medical license in Tennessee. Dr. Donlon has co-founded several healthcare initiatives, including Resurrection Health and Christ Community Health Services, which focus on serving low-income populations in the Memphis area. His recent publications include contributions to book chapters on healthcare missions, emphasizing the importance of serving underserved populations. Dr. Donlon is an active member of various professional organizations and community boards, including the Community Advisory Board for the Assisi Foundation.

Jenny Ellefson grew up in Manchester, UK. After completing an English Literature degree, she joined a team working and living incarnationally in an inner-city community in the north of England. Ellefson left the UK at the age of 27 to join a church planting team working in a township on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa where she spent 5 years before returning to the UK to complete a Masters in Missiology and Development. She then went to Burundi to train local Burundian missionaries in holistic mission to see communities transformed with the gospel. Ellefson currently lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two girls. They lead a non-profit called “Partners International” which resources Burundian missional leaders taking the gospel to unreached people groups in Burundi and beyond.

Dr. Eileen Gable graduated from Pennsylvania College of Optometry, completed a primary care ocular disease residency at the Illinois College of Optometry, Illinois Eye Institute prior to joining the faculty and staff of the same institution. Loyola University Medical Center’s department of ophthalmology and Edward Hines Jr Veteran’s Administration recruited her to serve as chair of missions as well as care for patients and educate residents. She was also part of church sponsored interdisciplinary medical mission teams. After completing a MDiv from Evangel University in May of 2024, she joined CMDA as the incoming Chicago area director.

Tom Hicks is a physician who has worked in international healthcare mission for 30 years. His experience is primarily in Asia working in clinical medicine, community health and medical education. He currently serves as the Director of Global Health Strategies for the International Mission Board.

David Kim, MD & Jenny Kim, MD are second-generation Korean-Americans from Chicago. Both graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and practice family medicine. From 2013-2019, they served with SIM in Nepal, at a small district hospital in Lamjung district. They returned to the US when their youngest daughter was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition called Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome. Since their return from Nepal, they both work at an FQHC on
Chicago’s west side, which serves many marginalized and low-income populations. They continue mobilizing for missions, equipping the church and staying faithful to His calling to make disciples of all nations.

Greg Kirschner MD, MPH, is grateful for his career in Family Medicine residency education and practice. While primarily serving in faculty, associate director, and program director roles in suburban Chicago, Greg and wife Dr. Carolyn Kirschner, a gynecologic oncologist, have regularly participated in short medical/teaching teams in Latin America & Africa. From 1995– 2004 their family moved to Jos, Nigeria where Greg served as FM residency director in a
mission hospital, while Carolyn cared for women with Vesicovaginal Fistula. Greg currently serves a part-time faculty role at the Lawndale Christian Family Medicine Residency, and as Grandpa to 8 active grandkids.

Dr. Jeffrey Larson is a family practice doctor and TEAM missionary who, with his wife and two children, has served an unreached Muslim tribe in the southern Philippines since 2017. His real-life struggles on the field highlighted the critical importance of member care. In 2023, he co-founded the Member Care Collaboration Network (MCCN), now with 75+ professionals supporting over 700 Filipino missionaries. Recently relocating to Chicago, he has developed a mobile app to scale MCCN’s global impact. His passion is to catalyze holistic care in emerging sending nations.

Jeff and Janet Leman have been married for 29 years and currently reside in Morton, Illinois. They served in North India for nearly a decade and remain deeply committed to global ministry and the encouragement of international workers. Jeff is a family medicine physician practicing emergency medicine, and Janet is a part-time nurse. They are blessed with four children and one granddaughter. Jeff and Janet enjoy cooking and hosting, spending time outdoors, and are grateful to God for the many years of life and service they have shared together.

Thomas Robey, MD is a professor of pediatric otolaryngology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Wisconsin. He has lived and practiced in Milwaukee, Wisconsin along with his wife, Jackie, for the past 25 years. They have been blessed with five children and have 3 grandchildren. Tom has also served as the Residency Program Director for the Otolaryngology residency program at MCW for the past 7 years. Tom has enjoyed serving with the Pan African
Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) since 2005 training surgical residents throughout Africa. He is also a board member for Partners in Evangelism International (PIEI).

For more than 25 years, Drs. Pete and Julie Rosa have lived Jesus- following, full-spectrum Family Medicine physician lives committed
to loving and leading those in their community to whole person health using the tools of medicine, leadership, and education. Dr.
Julie’s (as she has been affectionately called her entire professional life) work has focused on: the active practice of medicine, focusing
on female and pediatric patients in varied practice locations; mentoring the next generation of students clinically and personally.

She is also passionate about introducing others to activities that stretch their worldview using speaking engagements, outdoor
adventure, and short-term medical education trips through Medical Education International (MEI), under the parent organization
Christian Medical & Dental Association. July 1st, 2025, she accepted the Director role in MEI. Currently, she and her husband have
relocated back from the rolling sand dunes of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates to the rolling hills of Northeast Kansas. Serving the
world while focusing on Creative Access countries, she and her husband have enlarged their vision in this multiplicative mobilizing
role!

Spenn, DMD, Jonathan is the Dental Missions Mobilizer for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA). He is a Fellow in the Academy of Dentistry International, the Academy of General Dentistry, & the International College of Dentists. Within CMDA, he serves on the CE committee as well as the advisory
board for Medical Education International. Dr. Spenn received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Taylor University and his DMD degree from Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Spenn has been lecturing on exodontia and antibiotic stewardship since 2019. His short-term missions
work has taken him to over 20 countries.

Eric Stader, MD, is a practicing family physician of 23 years (and counting) in the hills of rural SW Wisconsin at High Point Family Medicine, LLC, his independent practice which provides excellent medical care with a mission mindset. He holds adjunct faculty appointments at both medical schools in Wisconsin, as well as several
Physician Assistant programs. He serves as the Wisconsin CMDA State Representative, is a past president of the Wisconsin Academy of Family Physicians, and a board member of 516Now, a grassroots mission organization working in Latin America. He enjoys family, biking, outdoor activities, building, and mission work.

Noel Sterett serves as senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom. Before joining ADF, he served as lead counsel for Illinois nurse Sandra Rojas in her
landmark case against the Winnebago County Health Department. The case established an important precedent under the Illinois Health Care Right of
Conscience Act and resulted in a judgment of over $370,000—the largest judgment under the Act on record. Noel and his wife, Elise, have five children. And he serves
on the board of the Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford and the Rockford Rescue Mission.