2020 Webinar Archive
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Greg Ogden is “retired” or better yet “redeployed” (as of March, 2012) from professional church leadership. He now lives out his passion of speaking, teaching, and writing about the disciple-making mission of the church. Most recently Greg served as Executive Pastor of Discipleship at Christ Church of Oak Brook, IL. in the Chicago western suburbs. From 1998-2002, Greg held the position of Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Fuller Theological Seminary and Associate Professor of Lay Equipping and Discipleship. Prior to coming to Fuller, Greg enjoyed 24 years in pastoral ministry. He is the author of six books and is the chairman of the board of Global Discipleship Initiative (GDI).
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Dr. Hey is a practicing spine surgeon. He studied electrical engineering and premed at MIT, and then Harvard for medical school, residency, and completed a Pediatric Orthopedic Fellowship at Boston Children's. He received his MS in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He and his family moved to North Carolina where he served as a spine fellow at Duke University, and then served on faculty for nearly 10 years as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. For the last 15 years, he has served as the leader of Hey Clinic for Scoliosis and Spine Surgery, and has also served as a leader in the Scoliosis Research Society, currently as the Chairman of the Safety and Value Committee. Dr. Hey is currently affiliated with the Campbell School of Osteopathic Medicine. For the last 30 years, he has been involved with intentional discipleship with medical students, residents and others in small groups of 3-4, and also mentoring pre-meds, medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty in clinical care as well as in clinical research and safety and quality improvement interventions and research. He has started a non-profit called CareGuard.org, and the Better Samaritan Institute which have been used as a way of mentoring over 50 pre-med and medical students in just the last 3 years. He has been married to his wife, Lori ,for nearly 34 years, and has 2 adult children. Lori and Lloyd also lead a Small Group in their home each week.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, and McManis Professor of Christian Thought Emeritus, Wheaton College. Among other books, he has published In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783 (Oxford University Press, 2016); God and Race in American Politics: A Short History (Princeton University Press, 2008); The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 2006); and America's God, from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2002). On Christian thinking and scholarship, he has published The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Eerdmans, 1994) and Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (Eerdmans, 2011). On questions of science and religion, he is the co-editor with David Livingstone of B. B. Warfield: Evolution, Science, and Scripture--Selected Writings (Baker Books, 2000); and with Livingstone and D. G. Hart, Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1999). He is also the author of "Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism," in Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction, ed. Gary B. Ferngren (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Dr. Larson retired from his position of 27 years as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2012. He was also Program Director of the training program for 20 years and served on the ACGME Residency Review Committee in Plastic Surgery for 6 years. Prior to moving to Milwaukee, he held the position of Surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery at M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, from 1979 to 1986. He is Board certified in both Otolaryngology and Plastic Surgery. Dr. Larson has authored over 140 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and books. Dr. Larson has a lifetime commitment to the education of medical students, residents, fellows, and peers as well as traveled extensively around the world teaching in missions. He is the current Chairman of the MEI Advisory Council.
Dr. Fabrice Jotterand is Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities and Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin. He holds a second appointment as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel. He is also a member of the Cross Pillar at the Kern Institute at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His work examines the importance of character formation in the moral development of future physicians as well as how the philosophy of medicine contributes to medical professionalism. His scholarship and research interests focus on issues including neuroethics, ethical issues in psychiatry and mental health, the use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry, medical professionalism, neurotechnologies and human identity, and moral/political philosophy. He has published more than 50 articles and book chapters, as well as editing five books. His present research focuses on an examination of the ethical, regulatory and social issues arising from the use of emerging neurotechnologies in psychiatry and neurology. He is working on a book, entitled The Unfit Brain and the Limits of Moral Bioenhancement, that focuses on the ethical and social implications of the potential use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry to alter brain functions to address so-called “moral pathologies” (antisocial, aggressive, and harmful behavior; psychopathic traits).
Dr. Jotter and’s background in philosophy and bioethics will make a complementary contribution to Dr. Larson’s perspective as a clinician and educator.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Harold G. Koenig, MD, MHSc. Dr. Koenig completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, his medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and his geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University. He is board certified in general psychiatry, and formerly boarded in family medicine, geriatric medicine, and geriatric psychiatry. He is on the faculty at Duke University Medical Center as Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Medicine, is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and in the School of Public Health at Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China. Dr. Koenig has over 500 scientific peer-reviewed academic publications, nearly 100 book chapters, and more than 50 books. His research has been featured on many national and international TV programs (including ABC’s World News Tonight, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Dr. Oz Show, NBC Nightly News) and hundreds of national and international radio programs and newspapers/magazines (including Reader's Digest, Parade Magazine, Newsweek, Time). Dr. Koenig has given testimony before the U.S. Senate (1998) and U.S. House of Representatives (2008) concerning the benefits of religious involvement on public health. He is the recipient of the 2012 Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the 2013 Gary Collins award from the American Association of Christian Counselors. Dr. Koenig is the lead author of the Handbook of Religion and Health, 3rd edition (2021, forthcoming, with Harvard University professors Tyler VanderWeele and John Raymond Peteet).
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Dr. David I. Levy is a neurosurgeon who practiced high-risk neurosurgery for more than 20 years. After attending Emory School of Medicine, he obtained neurosurgical training at Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona. He completed his endovascular neurosurgery fellowship at the University of Vienna in Austria and specialized in minimally-invasive neurosurgery using endovascular approaches. Dr. Levy was appointed Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at University of California, San Diego from 2013 - 2017. He has performed neurosurgery in Paris, India, Kenya and Congo.
Dr. Levy is also the author of Gray Matter: a neurosurgeon discovers the power of prayer…one patient at a time. In his book, he details the dramatic intersection of medicine and faith, and the power of forgiveness. The book has been published in French, Romanian and Russian. His fascination with neuroscience and his gift for public speaking encouraged him in 2017 to pursue his growing passion––communicating spiritual truth. He speaks on topics of neuroscience and presents God’s wisdom as pertinent and powerful today. He has spoken in the USA and internationally on topics at the intersection of neurosurgery, neuroscience, and faith.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Farr A. Curlin, MD, is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine, and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Before moving to Duke in 2014, he founded and was Co-Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago. At Duke, Farr practices palliative medicine and works with colleagues in the Trent Center and the Divinity School to develop opportunities for education and scholarship at the intersection of theology, medicine and culture. He is interested in the moral and spiritual dimensions of medical practice—particularly the doctor-patient relationship, the moral and professional formation of physicians, and practices of care for patients at the end of life.