Cincinnati Area
Northern Kentucky Convention Center
One West Rivercenter Blvd.
Covington, KY 20482
April 27-30, 2023
The premier gathering for all Christian healthcare professionals! This convention provides great opportunities for you to transform as you fellowship with Christian healthcare professionals, learn about current health and social issues, renew your faith through worship and network with exhibiting organizations. You don’t want to miss this event!
Who should attend the National Convention? Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Dentists, Optometrists, Nurses, Dental Hygienists, Physician Assistants, Administrators and Office Staff, Residents, Students, all other healthcare professionals, and spouses of all healthcare professionals.
Plenary Speakers & Musical Guests
Speakers are subject to change. Please check back often to see additions to the lineup.

Jerome Adams, MD
20th Surgeon General
of the United States

Darrell Bock, PhD
Exec. Dir. of Cultural Engagement
Senior Research Professor
of NT Studies
Dallas Theological Seminary

Professor Robert George
Director, James Madison Program
Princeton University

Rich Stearns
President Emeritus, World Vision U.S.
Author, Lead Like it Matters to God
CMDA Learning Center
Jerome Adams, MD
The 20th Surgeon General of the United States
After growing up poor and Black in a Southern rural community, Jerome Adams went on to lead the 6,000 person U.S. Public Health Service as “America’s Doctor” during a worldwide pandemic. As Surgeon General, he brought a passionate commitment to fighting issues that his own family and community experienced, including limited healthcare access, chronic disease, substance use disorder and ensuing stigma, tobacco addiction, maternal health, mental illness and the opioid epidemic. Dr. Adams’ talks merge his expertise at the forefront of national and global health policy with his own personal experiences: growing up with life-threatening asthma, as a brother to someone with substance use disorder, and as someone navigating politics to tirelessly champion the health of the vulnerable and voiceless during times of crisis.
Dr. Adams’ experience with healthcare began as a patient. As a child with chronic asthma, he suffered an attack so severe that he was airlifted, barely breathing, from his home in rural southern Maryland to a hospital in Washington D.C. As a student, he excelled in science, math and technology and was awarded a scholarship to study biochemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. It was there that he first met a Black physician (“You have to see it to be it!”) and was inspired to pursue a career in medicine. Adams was featured in the film Black Men In White Coats which tackles the issues around why black men aren’t becoming medical doctors and what that means for society.
Adams was awarded a scholarship to Indiana University Medical School, earned his Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley and went on to work in private practice as an anesthesiologist in rural Indiana. He was recruited back to Indiana University Medical School, rising to the rank of associate professor. During this time, Dr. Adams caught the eye of Indiana Governor Mike Pence, who appointed him as Indiana State Health Commissioner. Adams triumphed in that role, handling Ebola, Zika, the nation’s largest HIV and Hepatitis C outbreak associated with IV drug use, and a lead contamination situation in Northern Indiana that drew comparisons to the crisis in Flint, Michigan. His leadership during the HIV/Hepatitis C outbreak has been heralded for dramatically reducing infection via a needle exchange program that Dr. Adams championed through a highly conservative state legislature, paving the way for many other states to subsequently start or expand such services.
In 2016, Dr. Adams followed then-Vice President Pence to Washington as America’s 20th Surgeon General. He brought with him an ambitious goal to tackle the raging opioid crisis and make naloxone widely available. His agenda also included addressing health disparities such as maternal health and promoting community health and wellness through engagement with businesses and employers. As Surgeon General, Adams faced three category five hurricanes in a row, an e-cigarette/vaping epidemic among youth, and a once-in-a-century COVID-19 pandemic that was combined with a once-in-a-generation level of political strife and national division. Through it all, he stayed at the table, as one of the only high-level Black voices in the administration. Dr. Adams leveraged his position to advocate for disproportionately hard-hit communities of color and address the systemic health disparities that COVID shone a bright light on. As Dr. Adams often says, “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” Throughout his career, he has continued a hands-on approach to medicine, maintaining hospital privileges and becoming the only Surgeon General in recent history to actively practice while in office.
The Bipartisan Policy Center launched an opioid task force to address drug addiction and overdose deaths in the U.S., and Dr. Adams is a member. This new group will develop policy to reduce drug overdose deaths and combat the national opioid crisis, which it described as an epidemic within the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Adams is also a fellow of The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Dean’s D.C. Fellows program, which assembles innovative and intellectually accomplished experts who have distinguished themselves in fields outside of academia. These fellows collaborate with Darden faculty and students in a variety of ways.
Now, as a speaker, Dr. Adams continues his 25-year mission in community and public health with unforgettable keynote speeches and frank, courageous, and insightful fireside chats. Never backing down from tough questions, he brings a passion for engagement that pulls him from behind the podium to genuinely interact with audiences during Q&A. Known for speaking plainly on an array of health topics, he customizes his talks to meet the interests of an array of audiences. With a calm and caring manner, Dr. Adams speaks from the heart with the goal of making every audience member feel that he is speaking directly to them.
Katy Faust
Katy Faust is Founder & Director of Them Before Us, the only organization solely devoted to defending children's rights in the family. She did her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College and then received a Fulbright scholarship to Taiwan. Her fluency in Mandarin assisted her when she worked with the largest Chinese adoption agency in the world.
In 2012 Katy began writing about why marriage is a matter of social justice for kids. Her articles/interviews have appeared in USA Today, Public Discourse, LifeSite News, The Daily Signal, The Eric Metaxas Show, Breakpoint, and ABC Australia. She is a regular contributor at The Federalist. She has filed several amicus briefs supporting children’s rights and advocated on behalf of children with lawmakers in the US and abroad as well as at the United Nations. Her upcoming book, Them Before Us, Why we need a global children’s rights movement, will be published in February 2021 by PostHill Press.
She is the Washington State leader for the grassroots marriage movement CanaVox, and currently appears in a video series called Dear Katy which offers advice on how to live sexual integrity in the midst of morally permissive cultures. She is married to a pastor and the mother of four children, the youngest of whom is adopted from China.
Rich Stearns
President Emeritus of World Vision U.S.
Rich Stearns is President Emeritus of World Vision U.S., continuing to share his leadership influence by writing and speaking on behalf of the organization. He was the longest-serving president in World Vision’s history, from 1998-2018.
Rich joined World Vision U.S. to follow what he felt as a distinct call from God on his life, leaving a corporate career that included CEO roles at Lenox and Parker Brothers Games. He holds a B.A. in neurobiology from Cornell University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Over 20 years at World Vision U.S., Rich built a strong leadership team focused on bringing corporate best practices to the nonprofit sector. Logging 3 million air miles, he traveled to more than 60 of the nearly 100 countries in which the organization works. He served as a prophetic voice for the organization, calling on the American church to respond to the AIDS pandemic in the early 2000s, and later raising awareness on the refugee crisis and global poverty. As a thought leader, Rich appeared regularly in media outlets such as Christianity Today, FOX News, CNN, NPR, Charisma News, and Relevant magazine.
Among the honors Rich received for his humanitarian service are five honorary doctoral degrees and induction into the Society of World Changers at Indiana Wesleyan University. In 2018, he received the Julia Vadala Taft Outstanding Leadership Award from InterAction, and the Christian Leadership Alliance honored him with its highest honor, the Christian Leadership Alliance Consul.
Rich is the author of several books, including the best-selling, award-winning The Hole in Our Gospel. He also wrote Unfinished, as well as two books with his wife, Reneé – a children’s Bible storybook, God’s Love For You, and a 90-day devotional, He Walks Among Us. Rich’s latest book is Lead Like it Matters to God, from Intervarsity Press.
Rich and Reneé live in Bellevue, Washington. They have five grown children and six grandchildren.
Darrell Bock, PhD
Dr. Darrell L. Bock is an American evangelical Christian New Testament scholar. He is Executive Director of Cultural Engagement at The Hendricks Center and Senior Research Professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) in Dallas, Texas. Bock received his PhD from Scotland's University of Aberdeen. His supervisor was I. Howard Marshall. Harold Hoehner was an influence in his NT development, as were Martin Hengel and Otto Betz as he was a Humboldt scholar at Tübingen University multiple years.
His works include the monograph "Blasphemy and Exaltation" in the collection Judaism and the Final Examination of Jesus, and volumes on Luke in both the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament and the IVP New Testament Commentary Series. Bock is a past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, and he is a member of the board of trustees of Wheaton College (Illinois). He has served as a corresponding editor for Christianity Today, and he has published articles in the Los Angeles Times and The Dallas Morning News.
Robert P. George
Robert P. George holds Princeton University’s celebrated McCormick Professorship of Jurisprudence and is Founder and Director of Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics. He has also been the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore, he holds the degrees of JD and MTS from Harvard University and the degrees of DPhil, BCL, DCL, and DLitt from Oxford University, in addition to twenty-two honorary doctorates. He is a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Canterbury Medal of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and Princeton University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is Of Counsel to the law firm of Robinson & McElwee and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor George, who was born and brought up in the hills of West Virginia, is an accomplished bluegrass banjo player, who has performed with such artists as Tony Trischka, Ed Trickett, Stan Hitchcock, and Bob Weir.
Modern Day Cure
Modern Day Cure is a worship collective led by husband and wife duo Aaron and Tamar Chipp. The band's heart is to exalt Jesus, share His truth, and see people changed by His power. Their name is inspired by Hebrews 13:8, which states, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” This truth makes Him the modern day cure. They believe Jesus is the answer the world needs today.
With more than a decade of experience as worship leaders and pastors, the Nashville-based band is known for its energetic and engaging worship and teaching that crosses cultural and denominational boundaries. Modern Day Cure has had the privilege to share the stage with the Newsboys, Matt Maher, Jeremy Camp, Francesca Battistelli, Blanca, Lecrae and many other Christian artists.
Their latest single Highest Hallelujah is a simple congregational worship song that stays true to the band’s mission to exalt the name of Jesus.
The song was inspired by scriptures like 1 Chronicles 29:11, which says “Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is your, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.”
“We wrote Highest Hallelujah with our good friend Channing Gilespie and this scripture was the starting point,” says Tamar, lead singer for the band. “Of all the names and kingdoms vying for position and trying to exalt themselves today, we adore the One who is over them all.”
“We give the One who is above all things the praise that is above all things,” says Aaron, drummer and band leader. “That’s our heart in everything we do, on and off the stage.”
Modern Day Cure is excited to release more music in the coming months while traveling and leading worship across the country.
Kathryn Butler, MD
Kathryn Butler, MD, is a retired trauma and critical care surgeon who writes on topics at the intersection of faith and medicine. She earned her doctorate from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed her general surgery residency and critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she joined the staff as an attending surgeon and Associate Director of the Surgery Clerkship. After the Lord brought her to himself and convicted her with Deut. 6:6-7, Dr. Butler retired from clinical practice to homeschool her children. She now writes regularly for The Gospel Coalition, desiringGod.org, and CMDA’s The Point blog, and is the author of several books, including Between Life and Death: A Gospel-Centered Guide to End-of-Life Medical Care (recipient of the 2019 TGC book award in the first-time author category); Glimmers of Grace: A Doctor’s Reflections on Faith, Suffering, and the Goodness of God; and The Dream Keeper Saga, a series of middle grade children’s novels with Christian themes. Dr. Butler lives with her husband and two kids in the woods in Massachusetts, where daily they marvel at God’s grace.