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Dr. Brad Cruse
Brad completed dental school in 2003 at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry and a one year post-graduate hospital residency at the University Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. After residency, he worked part-time as a private practice associate and part-time as a clinical faculty member with the University of Louisville Ryan White HIV/AIDS dental program. In 2006, Brad and his family moved to New York City. Brad currently works as a staff general dentist in one the largest HIV/AIDS centers in New York City. He and his wife Laura live on the Upper West Side with two children, Hanna and Caroline.

Dr. Bridget Ko
Growing up with a father who served the underserved of the greater Boston area as a Pediatric dentist and Orthodontist, Bridget Ko has always had a desire to serve here in the States. After studying Biochemistry and Studio Art at Boston College, she went on to receive her D.M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 2004. During dental school, she got a glimpse of the greater worldview of God’s ministry beyond America during a STM trip to Mexico. Since completing Orthodontics residency at NYU College of Dentistry in 2007, and practicing in NYC’s Chinatown, God has a placed a burden in her heart for this city and it’s people. She attends Vision Church, where she met her husband, Steve. This past summer in 2008 they went on a medical missions trip to the Ixcan region of Guatemala with their church and they are planning for Mwanza, Tanzania in June 2009. For them, it is the beginning of a journey encompassing medicine/dentistry, ministry, and international public health. more…

Anna Lee is a staff worker with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), pioneering Graduate and Faculty Ministries (GFM) at New York University, where she has served for the last five years as IV’s undergraduate staff worker. She graduated from NYU with a BA in Journalism (’97) and a MSW (’01), working as a social worker in a pediatric AIDS clinic before joining staff with IV. Anna is excited to love and serve her alma mater’s graduate students and faculty, the largest private university in the U.S. with approximately 50,000 students (about half of whom are graduate students) and 3,000 faculty. She is deeply committed to helping integrate faith, justice, vocation, and work. She enjoys reading several good books at once, crafty hobbies, experimental cooking, and playing with her nephew and niece.

Dr. Harold Paul Adolph

Dr. Harold Adolph was born in China to Dr. and Mrs. Paul Adolph, American missionaries serving with China Inland Mission. In 1940, during World War II, the family returned to the United States but were back in China in 1948. They left again when CIM ordered all its missionaries out of the mainland because of the Communist takeover. In 1950, Harold enrolled in Wheaton College. After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1954, he went to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, from which he received his M.D. in 1958. He complete his surgical residency in 1962 at Gorgas Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. He has served as Chief of Surgery for the US Navy Headquarters Support Activity Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan; Chief of Surgery at SIM Soddo Hospital in Soddo, Ethiopia; Chief of Surgery at ELWA Hospital in Liberia, West Africa; Chief of Surgery at SIM Galmi Hospital in Republic of Niger, West Africa; and has built a surgical training center in south central Ethiopia as President of the St. Luke’s Health Care Foundation. In 1997, Dr. Adolph was awarded the “Missionaries of the Year” Award by the CMDA, “Servant of Christ” Award from the CMDA in 2003, delivered the “Steward Lecture” at the 25th CMDA-CME symposium in Kenya in 2004, “Alumni of the Year Distinguished Service to Society” Award from the Wheaton College Alumni Association in 2004, and most recently, was inducted into the Medical Mission Hall of Fame and designated “Distinguished Professor” by Toledo University in 2007.