CMDAnyc

NYU Dental School fellowship had their first meeting this Friday, September 12th at Room 614 @ 5:30pm.  Anna Lee from InterVarsity helped lead the meeting.

Christy Chu had this to say about the meeting:

The fellowship went well last night. I felt the Holy Spirit was with us and was moving and using the worship and Anna’s message on Hagar to move and change our hearts to become more aligned with His. The message was on how we are not slaves to our school, work, or environment, in other words our worth is not measured by what we produce and how people around us see us, but by our position in Christ. We are free in Him! But, even though our work is not what defines us or gives us value, God sees our work and responds.

For more information about NYU Dental Fellowship, please contact Christy Chu at cc1952@nyu.edu

Vinitha Jacob hosted this first meeting for the academic year, a potluck dinner, at her home in Aron Hall. Yummy ziti, salad, and dessert were served to over twenty people, mostly first and second year med students. Three attendings: Drs. Kathie Grimm (Pediatrics), George Piligian (Occupational Medicine), and Greg Tsai (ENT) also attended. Praise God on the big turnout this year!  Thank you, Vinitha, for serving in Him.

Janice Cheng, Kristin Gilbert, Michael Loeven, and Lisa King are leading the Cornell Medical Fellowship this year. The fellowship meets Tuesdays at 8pm in Archibold Commons (1300 York Ave, 2nd floor). The first official meeting was on Monday, September 8, 2008! Please contact Janice at jcc2006@med.cornell.edu for more details!

Benjamin Lok set up the recent NYU Medical Fellowship meeting. His review of the event below:

Our first fellowship meeting went very well! Praise God!
We had over 7 new participants (6 of them 1st years!) InterVarsity Staff Worker, Anna Lee, delivered a great teaching to us about not idolizing and not basing our worth on what we ‘produce’ whether it be grades, research projects, etc. Rather we should remember to focus on God, His calling for us and His infinite worth. Last, but not least, we enjoyed tasty sushi to welcome the new academic year! Things are looking to be exciting for NYU this year with our vision to reach out to our NYU medical community as well as our greater NYC community.

Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine had their FIRST fellowship dinner gathering of the academic year. They plan to meet regularly. Please contact Jeannie Bay (msbanggoo(at)gmail.com) if you’d like to be a part of this fellowship.

Vinitha Jacob hosted this gathering. The details below are in her words:

This is a rotating monthly meeting. We met at my home on the Upper East Side on Labor Day. Five MD/PhD students in total were present from Columbia, Einstein, Downstate and Mount Sinai. We shared a simple meal of pasta and meat sauce with brownies and ice cream afterwards. We discussed our dreams for ourselves and our families, and were paired with prayer partners for the month, including with one person who could not make the meeting.

Brandi Marsh also commented on this meeting. Go to the MD/PhD section (on the top left of this page) or click here for her comments.

Rebekah Kim hosted this rotating monthly event at her apartment in Midtown West. Ten residents, four attendings, and one office manager attended this gathering. Worship inspired all those present and was followed by sharing testimonies of how God has been faithful in our lives. We ended with prayer and eating Peking duck sandwiches, rice crepes, salad, brownies, and cheesecake. Thank you, Rebekah, for hosting and for leading such wonderful worship!

A new page has been added to the upper right corner. Click on ‘missions’ to see missions opportunities (short-term, long-term, domestic and foreign) organized by fellow CMDA NYC members as well as ones from the national CMDA site.

(taken from the national CMDA website)

Northeast Region Director

Rev. Scott P. Boyles encourages CMDA members as they seek to follow the Lord as healthcare practitioners and also encourages the growth of the Christian community within healthcarein the region. God has led Scott for most of his life to participate in cross-cultural ministries like serving through English as a second language ministries in Korea and West Africa as well as helping lead inner-city ministry in New Orleans. After joining CMDA in 2002, Scott realized that God had continued to lead him into cross-cultural ministry as he crossed into the culture of healthcare to help God’s people live out His calling. Scott is always eager to cast this vision for CMDA’s ministry in and to the Northeast: that Christians in healthcare would see their profession as part of following God’s call—which is every Christian’s vocation—on their lives to live completely for Him. The great joys in his life are his wife, their children—a toddler and an infant—and the occasional quiet moment.

Dr. Alice (known as ‘Ali’) Ko started as the CMDA NYC area director in August 2006. Since then, she has ministered to Christian medical students, residents, fellows, and attendings in the New York City area. She graduated from the combined undergraduate and medical program at Northwestern University and completed her OB/GYN residency at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to her ministry work, she works as a part-time gynecologist at YAI (Young Adults Institute), taking care of the disabled and mentally retarded population. Her goal is to help maintain Christian fellowship among medical students and physicians throughout their sometimes brutal training and continued challenges as attendings. In her spare time, she also enjoys medical missions work, having served most recently in Honduras in 2008 and Malaysia in 2007.  She recently got engaged on August 22, 2008.  Contact Area Director.