Faith in Healthcare: The CMDA Matters Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Dr. Scott Southard joins Dr. Mike Chupp to share the remarkable story behind In Jesus’ Name Medical Ministry – a church-based model that unites physicians, nurses, and churches to provide free, faith-filled care to those in need. What began with a single prayer and a donated mobile coach has grown into a thriving network of clinics where healthcare professionals serve together in Christ’s name. Dr. Southard recounts powerful moments of healing – from a child walking after surgery to a deaf grandmother regaining her ability to sign – showing how compassionate care in Jesus’ name opens hearts to hope and spiritual healing.

Chapters

• (00:00:08) - Faith in Healthcare
• (00:03:04) - Nevada Orthopedic Surgeon Takes Health Care to People in
• (00:09:12) - Free medical clinic
• (00:10:08) - What is the In Jesus Name Clinic?
• (00:14:45) - How to Vet the Churches
• (00:16:04) - What does spiritual ministry look like in medical practice?
• (00:19:19) - 2018 CMDA National Convention Announcement & More
• (00:22:40) - The New CMDA Clinic Experience
• (00:24:01) - A Place for Priests in Medicine
• (00:24:48) - Nevada Orthopedic Surgery: A Complete Clinic
• (00:26:46) - In Jesus Name Medical Liability Coverage
• (00:32:06) - Free Weekend Medical Clinics in Nevada
• (00:35:44) - Faith in Healthcare

This week’s episode is a special cross-over with CMDA’s Voice of Advocacy podcast, hosted by Dr. Brick Lantz, CMDA’s Vice President of Advocacy and Bioethics. Joined by Dr. Gary Ott, a renowned cardiac transplant surgeon at Providence Heart and Vascular Clinic, they explore the ethical boundaries of life, death, and medical innovation – examining how we define death in the ICU era, the differences between brain death and donation after circulatory death (DCD), and how emerging technologies like “heart-in-a-box” systems and normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) are reshaping transplant medicine. With decades of experience and deep faith, Dr. Ott challenges us to uphold the sanctity of life and reflects on the Gospel image at the heart of transplantation – one life given so another may live.

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - Faith in Healthcare
• (00:02:43) - The fight over death in the transplant world
• (00:03:48) - Heart Transplant Doctor on the Prospects
• (00:04:57) - Heart Surgeon: Why I chose this career path
• (00:11:35) - Donor heart in brain death
• (00:14:28) - Donation after cardiac death or circulatory death
• (00:20:01) - Pre-Field Orientation and Saline Process Witness Training
• (00:22:24) - Heart transplantation 4, The heart
• (00:24:08) - How far can a heart be transplanted?
• (00:25:10) - Importance of extracorporeal perfusion in heart transplants
• (00:32:29) - Philosophical Questions about Heart Transplant
• (00:36:49) - The Right to Perfuse the Brain
• (00:39:58) - Heart Surgeon Gary Gross on Voice of Advocacy
• (00:41:05) - Christian Healthcare Ethics
• (00:43:40) - Faith in Healthcare

This week’s episode is a special tribute to Dr. James Dobson, whose recent passing marks the loss of a man who shaped generations of families and believers. A child psychologist by training, Dr. Dobson rose to national influence through bestselling books, Focus on the Family, and later Family Talk and the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute. His legacy in Christian radio, cultural engagement, and defense of the family continues to endure. In honor of his impact, we’re returning to our very first podcast episode from January 2020 under the name CMDA Matters, where Dr. Dobson joined us as the inaugural guest. In this conversation, he speaks with honesty and conviction about family, faith, cultural pressures, and the courage needed to uphold biblical values in the public square. His words remain just as timely today, offering encouragement to live boldly for Christ and to raise the next generation with truth and love.

Dr. Sandy Christiansen discusses the impact pregnancy centers are making in today’s Post-Roe America.

 

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:

• Give to CMDA
• Email CMDA Matters
• CMDA Bookstore
• Freedom2Care
• Care Net
• “I Can’t Be Pregnant: Helping Patients Navigate an Unplanned Pregnancy” by Sandy Christiansen, MD, FACOG
• CMDA Today
• “Critical Conversations on Pregnancy After Roe” in the CMDA Learning Center
• Abortion Pill Reversal
• CMDA Specialty Sections
• CMDA Advocacy

Author, research scientist and ethicist Professor John Wyatt discusses the impact of artificial technology on the future of healthcare.

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:

• Give to CMDA
• Email CMDA Matters
• CMDA Bookstore
• Professor Wyatt’s Website
• Professor Wyatt’s Plenary Talk
• International Christian Medical and Dental Association
• 2024 CMDA National Convention
• Standing Strong in Training

Author and social critic Os Guinness talks about his latest book called Signals of Transcendence.

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:

• Give to CMDA
• Email CMDA Matters
• CMDA Bookstore
• Signals of Transcendence by Os Guinness
• Os Guinness’ Website
• Faith Prescriptions
• Email Faith Prescriptions
• 2024 CMDA National Convention
• CMDA Weekly Devotions

In this video podcast episode: Kristen Waggoner, the CEO, president and general counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom, talks about how their faith-based legal organization is working to litigate for life around the country.

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:

• CMDA Matters You Tube Channel
• Give to CMDA
• Email CMDA Matters
• CMDA Bookstore
• Alliance Defending Freedom
• Email CMDA’s Advocacy Team
• CMDA Advocacy
• Bridging the Gap
• Legal Consultations for CMDA Members
• Standing Strong in Training

On this week’s episode of CMDA Matters, Dr. Mike Chupp and Pastor Bert Jones are joined by Dr. Amanda Beattie, a general surgeon who has courageously spent the last 12 years working cross-culturally in North Africa.

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:

 

•  Give to CMDA
• Email CMDA Matters
• CMDA Bookstore
• Global Missions Health Conference 2023
• Pre-field Orientation to Healthcare Missions
• Center for Advancing Healthcare Missions
• Medical Education International
• CMDA Go App
• Email CMDA Stewardship

Author and physician Dr. Gordon Chen shares his approach to health and wellness for primary care and for healthcare leadership development.

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:

• Give to CMDA
• Email CMDA Matters
• CMDA Bookstore
• THRIVE Events
• The Calling: A Memoir of Family, Faith and the Future of Healthcare by Dr. Gordon Chen and Dr. Chris Chen
• ChenMed
• Center for Well-Being
• CMDA Learning Center

   

Well-known philosopher Professor J. P. Moreland discusses his new book The Substance of Consciousness.

RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE:

• Give to CMDA
• Email CMDA Matters
• CMDA Bookstore
• The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism by J. P. Moreland
• The Dr. John Patrick Bioethics Column in CMDA Today
• CMDA Learning Center
• The Way of Medicine by Dr. Farr Curlin and Dr. Christopher Tollefsen