2025 CMDA NATIONAL CONVENTION
EXHIBITORS
Samaritan’s Purse – World Medical Misson – Booth 72
PREMIER SPONSOR
P.O. Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607
828-588-1680
Leigh Smith, Post Residency Program Coordinator
Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love through His Son, Jesus Christ. Serving with World Medical Mission opens up extraordinary opportunities for Christian men and women willing to use their professional expertise in areas of great need. As patients walk through the darkest time of their lives, World Medical Mission volunteers have the opportunity to pray and share the gospel with them, ministering to their spiritual needs as they work to treat their physical ailments.
Beacon Wealth Consultants – Booth 71
DIAMOND SPONSOR
302 Washington Ave SW
Roanoke, VA 24016
540-345-3891
Cassandra Laymon, President
Beacon Wealth Consultants is a fee-only financial planning and investment management firm dedicated to helping Christians invest in alignment with their faith. With a commitment to biblically wise investing, we provide clients with clarity and guidance to make meaningful financial decisions. Our approach centers on investing in companies that promote human flourishing and uphold ethical practices, ensuring that our clients’ portfolios reflect their values. We believe that every Christian deserves the opportunity to steward their resources in a way that honors God.
Love & Truth Network – Booth 74
DIAMOND SPONSOR
4410 W. Union Hills Dr. Ste 7 #283
Glendale, AZ 85308
Garry Ingraham, Executive Director
Love & Truth Network equips pastors, leaders and churches in restoring sexual wholeness, genuine community and biblical identity through personalized in-person and virtual leadership training, teaching resources and experiential growth opportunities for individual transforming and supporting others.
Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School – Booth 70
DIAMOND SPONSOR
407 Chapel Drive
Durham, NC 27707
919-667-3643
Heather Plonk, Program Coordinator
The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative offers current and future healthcare workers residential and hybrid programs of study that re-imagine and re-engage contemporary practices of healthcare in light of Scripture, Christian tradition and the practices of Christian communities. We seek to empower participants to live out their vocations with clarity, faith and joy.
ABWE – Booth 4
522 Lewisberry Road
New Cumberland, PA 17070
717-909-2442
Katie White, Coordinator
Compassionate Care. Communicating Christ. With more than 90 years of experience sharing the love and hope of Jesus Christ with people around the world, ABWE remains rooted in conservative, baptistic theology while striving to be relevant, effective, creative and adaptable. Healthcare continues to be one of our most effective strategies for bringing the gospel to large numbers of unreached people groups. We have three hospitals and numerous small clinics engaging people with the gospel through healthcare ministry. All of our missionaries receive education and training in essential missions components that identify their strengths and skills—enhancing their capacity to participate in fulfilling the Great Commission.
Alliance Defending Freedom – Booth 10
15100 N 90th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
480-204-4471
Melanie Trautman, Marketing Manager
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is one of the leading Christian law firms committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights and the sanctity of life. ADF is one of the nation’s most respected and successful United States Supreme Court advocates. We have played various roles in 77 Supreme Court victories. Since 2011, ADF has represented parties in 15 victories at the Supreme Court. These victories have been on behalf of pastors, churches, religious organizations, college students, family-owned businesses, pro-life pregnancy center and many others.
Blue Trust – Booth 7
1125 Sanctuary Parkway, Suite 500
Alpharetta, GA 30009
770-280-6106
Stefanie Humphrey, Communications and Events Coordinator
Blue Trust advisors apply biblical wisdom and technical expertise to help clients make wise financial decisions to experience clarity and confidence and leave a lasting legacy. With $59 billion assets under advisement and a nationwide network of 17 offices, we offer comprehensive financial services and objective advice to more than 10,000 clients across the wealth spectrum in all 50 states. As of 6/30/24 and subject to change.
CMDA Psychiatry Section – Booth 46
P.O. Box 7500
Bristol, TN 37621
888-230-2637
Marshall Williams, Administrator
We are a unique professional fellowship of believing psychiatrists providing affiliation and support, clinical and academic collaboration, opportunity for deeper personal ministry, spiritual growth and mission to the community. We promote fellowship and provide community to support and encourage Christian physicians in the practice of psychiatry, as they explore the relationship between their faith and professional practice.
CMDA Addiction Medicine Section – Booth 47
P.O. Box 7500
Bristol, TN 37621
888-230-2637
Kurt Bravata, MD, Vice Chair
The CMDA Addiction Medicine Section exists to prevent and treat addiction and transform lives, by God’s grace, love and power. We strive to provide compassionate excellence in all aspects of addiction care, including whole-person prevention and treatment, education, advocacy, empowerment of others, research, church and community partnerships and interprofessional collaboration and support.
CMDA Side By Side – Booth 48
P.O. Box 7500
Bristol, TN 37621
888-230-2637
Rebecca Lehman, Executive Director
Side By Side focuses on supporting, challenging and uplifting medical marriages to bring glory to Jesus, while positively impacting daily life and fostering deep relationships with each other, our husbands and our Lord. We are a CMDA ministry for women who are married to medical and dental professionals (students, trainees, staff and retirees).
Global Medical Research Institute (GMRI) - Booth 2
2001 Kyker Bonner Avenue NW
Cleveland, TN 37611
617-517-6039
Joshua Brown, PhD, Director
GMRI is a non-profit research institute with a mission of rigorous medical and scientific studies on the effects of Christian healing prayer. We have published a number of peer-reviewed case reports of remarkable healing through prayer and also carry out randomized controlled clinical trials on the medical effects of prayer.
INMED – Booth 1
2340 E Meyer Blvd, Building 1, Suite 338
Kansas City, MO 64132
816-444-6400
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, President and Professor
INMED is a graduate school equipping healthcare professionals and students to serve the world’s most forgotten people. INMED’s premier offerings are the master’s degree in international health (MIH) and the graduate diploma in international medicine and public health (DIMPH). Since 2004, 680 graduates have earned an INMED graduate diploma. Both these credentials include supervised rotations at an INMED service-learning site.
International Mission Board – Booth 5
3806 Monument Ave
Richmond, VA 23230
804-219-1969
Tom Hicks, Director, Global Health Strategies
The International Mission Board (IMB) exists to serve Southern Baptists to carry out the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations and see a multitude knowing and worshipping Jesus Christ. Through clinical medicine, community health, mental health and medical education, we seek to meet needs and address the world’s greatest problem: lostness.
Mint Hill Wealth Management – Booth 3
7540 Matthews Mint Hill Road
Mint Hill, NC 28227
833-421-1140
Matt Lessman, Chief Operating Officer
We established our firm to help physicians and dentists simplify their financial lives and proactively create wealth. Wo do this by serving as your family’s CFO through the financial planning process and offering a higher level of flexibility and customization in our portfolios.
Physicians for Compassionate Care Education Foundation (PCCEF) – Booth 9
P.O. Box 7122
Bonney Lake, WA 98391
253-501-7011
Sharon Quick, MD, MA, President
Physicians for Compassionate Care Education Foundation (PCCEF) promotes safeguarding vulnerable human lives, especially the terminally ill, through education about the dangers of assisted suicide and euthanasia and the benefits of good palliative care. PCCEF hopes to link patients with practitioners who heal when possible, comfort always and never intentionally harm.
Shannon Family Medicine Residency Program
3555 Knickerbocker Rd
San Angelo, TX 76904
325-747-7670
Chelsea Shields, Program Coordinator
The Shannon Family Medicine Residency Program is a community-based program with personalized instruction from our diverse faculty focused on innovation and teamwork. Gain rural medicine experience and a chance to make a difference in an underserved area serving a 25-county area, about 10 percent of the state of Texas.
The Hendricks Center at Dallas Theological Seminary – Booth 8
3909 Swiss Avenue
Dallas, TX 75204
214-887-5179
Katherine Arredondo, Events Manager
The key to any organization is leadership. And the key to any leader is the heart. That’s why our focus at The Hendricks Center is the leader’s heart. Through programs, processes and media resources, we seek to shape leaders who are passionately committed to God and His Word while personally compelled by God’s love for each person.