Dr. David Allen (Keynote Speaker), is a widely acclaimed Christian psychiatrist.  He has taught at Harvard and Yale and presently holds a clinical professorship in Psychiatry at Georgetown Medical School, in Washington, D.C. where he has taught Psychiatry and Religion.  Dr. Allen is a recognized expert in all types of addictions and their causes and presently works as a psychiatrist in Nassau, Bahamas.   Dr. Allen has published widely in the areas of Addiction, Spirituality and Psychiatry and is a well-known public speaker in the area of spirituality and addiction, violence, anger, community, forgiveness and acceptance.

Dr. Roger Gingerich (Luncheon Speaker) is the Executive Director of CMDS. He is a family physician residing and practicing Steinbach, Manitoba. His experience includes medical relief work with organizations such as Heart to Heart Int’l, Samaritan’s Purse Canada, and Mountain Top Ministries.  He is the board chair of Providence College and Seminary, and serves on his church board. Dr. Gingerich is married to Eleanor, and they have 4 married children, and 6 grandsons.

Mr. Greg Paul (Celebration Banquet Speaker) is the author of “God in the Alley:  Being and Seeing Jesus in a Broken World”. He is the founder of Sanctuary Ministries in Toronto, the current director of the organization, and pastor of the Sanctuary community.  A former carpenter, he has served in inner-city ministry for twenty-five years.  Greg is the father of four children, and the lead vocalist and keyboardist for Red Rain.

Workshop Leaders:

Mr. Irving Augustine is a Registered Family Therapist in Ontario and a full clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.  Irv brings his professional and theological training and experiences to the workshop with a sense of humour, 'playfulness', and personal experience.

Rev. Sue Carr is ordained with the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, was a chaplain in acute, palliative and primary care, and is now ministering with an urban mission organization in Hamilton.   Dr. David Chan is a family physician and full time faculty member at the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University.

Mr. Don Corry is the CMDS Associate Staff Member and Navigator Staff at McMaster University, where he has been mentoring young adults for over thirty years.  He is married to Lynette, has three grown children, and is an elder with the Meeting House.

Mrs. Mary-Lou Hanna is the spouse of an extremely busy surgeon and administrator.  Upon marriage, she was welcomed into a new cultural experience.  She is delighted to be the mother of a recently married son and daughter, and has been teaching English as a Second Language for the last six years.  Mr. Dan Hardock lives in Calgary and is married to Dr. Christin Hilbert, a busy inner-city GP.  Dan previously worked for IVCF, and was the Campus Staff Co-ordinator for CMDS Canada.  Currently he is a professor at Rocky Mountain College in Calgary.  Dan and Christin have three  young children.

Dr. Wanda Malcolm is a licensed member of the College of Psychologists in Ontario, with a private practice in Toronto. She is also professor of pastoral psychology at Wycliffe College. Based on her clinical training and research, Dr. Malcolm has an enduring interest in working with people who have been wounded by interpersonal hurtfulness. 

Dr. John Palmer practiced dentistry for 22 years until an injury ended his dental career. With four children still at home, he completed a Master's degree in counselling and since then, has provided counselling services to dentists and their families in BC under a full time contract with the Provincial Dental Association.

Dr. John Patrick retired from the University of Ottawa in ‘02.  He now lectures throughout the world on moral issues in medicine and culture, and the integration of faith and science.  He and his wife Sally make their home in Ottawa.

Dr. Dan Reilly practices and teaches ob/gyn in small town Ontario and teaches ethics at McMaster University.  Dan is the President-elect for the CMDS National Board, and provides leadership on many levels, including the annual Student Leadership Conference.

Dr. Jonathan Sherbino is an ER doc in Hamilton, Ontario.  He balances being Director of CME for ER Medicine at McMaster University and a RCPSC Clinician-Educator with the more important tasks of being a husband, father and student mentor

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