CMDA ST. LOUIS GET CONNECTED!
CMDA Student Chapter Gatherings
Various CMDA student chapters meet for Bible studies, events, service and fellowship. Students find a group to connect with and health care professionals consider visiting, speaking or mentoring.
Our current St. Louis chapters include: Washington University (Medical,O.T., P.T. & UHSP Pharmacy), St. Louis University Medical, SIU-Alton Dental and UMSL Optometry.
If you would like to receive a link to join one of these groups please contact Katie Holloway, CMDA STL Associate Director at stlcmda@cmdastl.org
Encourage one another in Christ!
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 NIV
The CMDA St. Louis Health Care Professionals Leadership Council is made up of MD's, an NP and others interested in helping to make CMDA strong for the cause of Christ ! If you would like to learn more, get involved or meet one of us for dinner or a cup of coffee please contant us at our shared email address: stlcmda@cmdastl.org
Josephine Glaser, MD; Peri Pepmueller, MD; Phil Asaro, MD; Randy Laine, MD; Dawn Forbes, APRN, CCNP;
Paul Glaser, MD, PhD; Katie Holloway, Associate Staff.
We would also like to help connect students, residents/fellows, and healthcare professionals.
We are stronger together !
Testimonials
Testimonials
“It took a few years to attend, but I’m thankful a CMDA student leader kept inviting me to join CMDA’s weekly Bible studies. Going through the book of Job & Daniel in medical school helped grow my faith & trust in Christ”
St. Louis University Medical Student
"CMDA provides a safe space for followers of Jesus to grow in their fruitfulness by abiding in the vine."
Washington University medical student
“CMDA provides an opportunity for students (followers and not-yet followers of Jesus) to know that their purpose and worth is not based on productivity.”
Washington University medical student
""CMDA has provided me a secure and brave community to practice my faith, learn about others' faith journey and reasoning behind choices but most importantly taught me how to integrate faith in healthcare without feeling lost, alienated, or act hypocritically about my values and beliefs""
OT Student, Washington University
CMDA STL Affiliated Schools and Health Care systems
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2025 CMDA National Conference in STL!
The 2025 CMDA National Convention is the premier event for Christians in healthcare. We anticipate around 1,200 healthcare professionals, residents, students, spouses and more gathering with us at the St. Charles Convention Center just outside St. Louis in St. Charles, Missouri on May 1-4, 2025.
This convention provides great opportunities for you to transform as you fellowship with your fellow Christian healthcare professionals, while also learning about current health and social issues. Even more, you have the chance to network with a variety of exhibiting organizations that can help you bring the hope and healing of Christ to the world. Plus, our worship sessions will help renew your faith.
Join us at the 2025 CMDA National Convention as we discover how God is leading each of us to be A Spoke in the Wheel.
Physician, Dentist, and Healthcare Professional Well-being
If you are a Christian healthcare professional, The CMDA Center for Well-Being is for YOU! You pour yourself out for others every day…this is a place to be refilled! We want to help you align with God, optimize your well-being and maximize your influence. We want to help you find the “sweet spot” of life again, to help you find or regain what the Bible calls “Shalom.”
FREE RESOURCE FOR MEMBERS
The mission of Faith Prescriptions is to equip Christian healthcare professionals to communicate the love of Christ, in word and in deed, to our patients, students and colleagues. What does this look like each day as we practice? How does the love of Christ motivate us to do our very best for our patients? How can we encourage our patients to confide in us regarding their spiritual needs? How do we verbally communicate the power of the Gospel with sensitivity and respect? Many doctors from across the country will be sharing what the Lord has taught them regarding these and many other pertinent topics.
As a courtesy, we have the first video of Faith Prescriptions available for you to preview for FREE if you are not a CMDA member.
Click here to go to the free preview.
Note: If you don't have an account already, you will need to create a CMDA account when prompted.
To get any of the courses in the series, please follow the steps to "purchase" the preview and each course, but for members the price is $0.00.
FREE RESOURCE FOR MEMBERS
A new on-demand video series for healthcare students and residents.
As the newest edition to CMDA’s long list of resources for our members, Standing Strong in Training is new curriculum that helps healthcare students and residents stand up against the cultural pressures facing Christians within healthcare today.
The curriculum’s seven modules are designed for group settings, allowing attendees to solidify their foundational worldview beliefs regarding important issues, such as the beginning of life, end of life and biblical sexuality. Each module also offers ideas of how to winsomely defend biblical values and positively interact with others in developing their worldview beliefs.
To get any of the courses in the series, please follow the steps to "purchase" the preview and each course, but for members the price is $0.00.
CHURCH RESOURCES
CHURCH RESOURCES
Do you find it difficult to address today’s current issues with your church congregation? Do you know how to explain the perils of physician-assisted suicide? How do you answer questions about abortion? What about leading a discussion on sexuality, gender identity and other hot topics dominating our culture today?
As a ministry, CMDA is dedicated to advancing biblical principles of healthcare within the church and throughout the world. We want to help you to be an advocate for God’s Word and speak truth into today’s ethical issues. In order to engage others in these discussions, it’s important to learn more about them. And we are here to help!
MINISTRIES
CHURCH RESOURCES
MEMBER SEARCH
MEMBER SEARCH
MEMBER SEARCH
Locate a Hippocratic Christian doctor, dentist, optometrist, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, pharmacist or other allied health care professional in the the greater St. Louis area.
MEMBERSHIP
MEMBER SEARCH
MEMBER SEARCH
One of the most common reasons healthcare professionals give for not joining or renewing their membership is that they do not have time to be involved.
MEMBERSHIP COUNTS IN THESE AREAS:
Mentoring the next generation of Christian healthcare professionals on more than 280 campuses.
Professional support to nearly 1,000 full-time healthcare missionaries serving overseas
Advocacy for issues important to Christian healthcare professionals to national leaders and the media with demonstrated effectiveness in these areas.
Volunteer Learning Opportunities
CMDA STL STUDENT/RESIDENT FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Contact us if you wish to serve as a mentor or host a dinner fellowship with medical and dental students & residents.
FREE ON-LINE SEMINAR FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS
The Advocacy for Life: 21st Century Hippocratic Medicine Course is a 12-week seminar that emerged through collaboration of pro-life medical professionals in a variety of professional organizations and nonprofits. It serves as a unifying training program on core pro-life issues within the medical field. The seminar incorporates group discussions, case presentations, and mentorship to facilitate education of learners in the foundational, life affirming, healing art and practice of Hippocratic medicine.
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
Heartbeat International is the first network of pro-life pregnancy resource centers founded in the U.S. (1971), and it is now the most expansive network in the world. Heartbeat has over 2,800 affiliated pregnancy help locations including pregnancy help medical clinics (with ultrasound), resource centers, maternity homes, and adoption agencies in more than 60 countries around the world to provide alternatives to abortion.
HEALTHCARE FOR THE POOR: MO
HEALTHCARE FOR THE POOR: NON-US
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
Providing compassionate comprehensive whole person Healing Grace care in Jesus' name for the uninsured in the greater STL area.
Now accepting volunteer applications for physicians, optometrists, allied health care professionals, students, residents, & office staff.
HEALTHCARE FOR THE POOR: NON-US
HEALTHCARE FOR THE POOR: NON-US
HEALTHCARE FOR THE POOR: NON-US
"As a ministry of CMDA, Global Health Outreach is a short-term international missions program dedicated to providing healthcare while spreading the gospel by sending medical, dental and surgical teams around the world." Dr. Trish Burgess, CMDA Global Health Outreach National Director
ADVANCING DISABILITY MINISTRY
HEALTHCARE FOR THE POOR: NON-US
HEALTHCARE FOR THE POOR: NON-US
Advancing Disability Ministry
for 40 years
Joni & friends are changing the church and communities around the world.
CHURCH & MENTAL HEALTH
Key Ministry was founded by
Dr. Stephen Grcevich to help churches welcome families of children with hidden disabilities. Since 2002, they've provided knowledge, innovation, and experience to the worldwide church as it ministers to and with individuals and families of kids with hidden, developmental, and physical disabilities.
LIGHTHOUSE NETWORK: RECOVERY FOR LIFE
LIGHTHOUSE NETWORK: RECOVERY FOR LIFE
LIGHTHOUSE NETWORK was founded in 2003 by adult psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Benzio. The mission and vision of the network is for God and the name of Jesus to be glorified as individuals psychologically and spiritually renew their minds, achieve their God-given potential, and live fully transformed lives of joy, peace, forgiveness, freedom, meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.
CMDA STL RESOURCES
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) upholds and promotes the fundamental principles of Hippocratic medicine. These principles include protecting the vulnerable at the beginning and end of life, seeking the ultimate good for the patient with compassion and moral integrity, and providing healthcare with the highest standards of excellence based on medical science.
American College of Family Medicine
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) upholds and promotes the fundamental principles of Hippocratic medicine. These principles include protecting the vulnerable at the beginning and end of life, seeking the ultimate good for the patient with compassion and moral integrity, and providing healthcare with the highest standards of excellence based on medical science.
Hippocratic Registry
Join the Hippocratic Registry Practitioners from many faiths who are practicing Hippocratic medicine.
The reason AAPLOG exists is to encourage and equip its members and other concerned medical practitioners to provide an evidence-based rationale for defending the lives of both the pregnant mother and her unborn child.
The American College of Pediatricians promotes a society where all children, from the moment of their conception, are valued unselfishly. We encourage mothers, fathers and families to advance the needs of their children above their own. We expect societal forces to support the two-parent, father-mother family unit and provide for children role models of ethical character and responsible behavior.
PURPOSE
Physicians for Compassionate Care is an association of physicians and other health professionals dedicated to preserving the traditional relation of the physician and patient as one in which the physician's primary task is to heal when possible, comfort always, and never intentionally harm.
Organized in 2009 to address threats to conscience freedoms in healthcare,
Freedom2Care recognizes the value of preserving
life-honoring principles and historic American civil rights and freedoms.
PURPOSE
To preserve, educate, coordinate, and represent the vulnerable and, where appropriate, advocate before the courts on issues related to euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Exists to cultivate Christian leaders at the intersection of university, church, and society.
Works toward uncommon community, focused engagement, and creative dialogue.