M3 Welcomes Yancy Stermer to the 2018 M3 Conference
We at M3 hope you had an amazing Christmas and were able to enjoy this special time of year with the ones you love. To help the Christmas celebration continue, we have another 2018 M3 Conference speaker to introduce to you. Yancy Stermer is definitely nothing short of interesting, and we are so excited to have him as part of the team this coming conference!
Retired from the US Army after 21 years of service and 7 more years in uniform teaching JROTC at a private military academy, it was time for a career change. Yancy went back to school completing a degree in Surgical Technology and certification as a Surgical Assistant. In 2012, he was introduced to medical mission volunteerism and has been making routine trips to Guatemala. In 2017, he served on the Samaritan’s Purse Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) at their Emergency Field Hospital (EFH) in Northern Iraq.
To learn more about Yancy’s personal experience in Iraq, click here to read his article entitled Privileged to Serve, which was published in the December 2017 issue of The Surgical Technologist. Yancy’s story can be found on page 32 of the link or page 560 of the original publication. Yancy specifically talks about his experience as part of the DART team working in the EFH in Iraq, and his article is so inspiring.
In addition to Yancy’s Plenary Session segment, M3 is also highlighting disaster response in other areas of the conference. We will host a Pre-Conference Workshop that will provide DART training, which we will share more about at a later date. Also, Samaritan’s Purse will set up an Emergency Field Hospital for conference attendees to experience, walk through, and ask questions about what it is like to work on the field in this type of situation. You do not want to miss it!
At the M3 Conference on February 23 & 24, Yancy will be speaking on the topic, “Privileged to Serve,” and we look forward to seeing you there! Click here to register and use promo code SPREADTHEWORDM318 to receive $5 off your registration.
M3 Welcomes Dr. Mitch Duininck to the 2018 M3 Conference
Only three days until Christmas! We hope you enjoy some time off with your family and friends and reflect on the many blessings in your life. We are so blessed at M3 with an incredible line up of speakers for this 2018 M3 Conference. We are honored to introduce each of them to you and have plenty more to come! Today’s introduction is Mitch Duininck, MD.
Dr. Mitchell W. Duininck is the President and Director of the In His Image Family Medicine Residency training program. This program, with 20 faculty physicians and 34 resident physicians, emphasizes training doctors in whole person medicine and preparing them for service to the medically underserved. Over 34 graduates of this program are full-time medical missionaries. Dr. Duininck is the CEO of both In His Image International and Good Samaritan Health Services. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Medicine.
Dr. Duininck has done medical missions in many countries, including India, Kenya, Ghana, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Russia, Romania and the Czech Republic. He has led multiple medical crisis response teams to Zaire, Honduras, Indonesia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal, Iraq, and Turkey.
Dr. Duininck and his wife Leah have six children, three boys and three girls, and three grandchildren. As a family, they served as medical missionaries at Manna Mission Hospital in Ghana, West Africa, for two years (1999-2001). In September of 2010, they moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, for a year to help train Afghan physicians in the Hope Family Medicine Afghanistan residency program.
Come and be inspired by Dr. Duininck and many others in just two months for the 2018 M3 Conference – February 23 & 24! Click here to register and use promo code SPREADTHEWORDM318 to receive $5 off your registration.
M3 Welcomes Mike Reiszner to the 2018 M3 Conference
We at M3 would like to introduce you to another great speaker joining us for the 2018 M3 Conference. His name is Mike Reiszner and he will be speaking on a subject he is extremely passionate about – Defending the Orphan.
Mike Reiszner and his wife Mandy, founders of Coreluv International, have dedicated their lives to ministry. After completing their Bible school training, while still in their early twenties, they served as missionaries with an inner-city ministry in Houston’s Fourth Ward. There, they were able to minister to some of the poorest people in the city. Ten years after, Mike and Mandy served as youth pastors discipling young men and women to pursue a personal and meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ.
In 2009, God began stirring in Mike and Mandy’s heart a deep compassion for orphans and that is when Coreluv International was born. Almost immediately, Mike and Mandy began scheduling Christian concerts to raise money for an orphanage in Africa. It was a surprise to many of their friends when in 2011, Mike walked away from the American ministry ideal (a secure position in a vibrant and growing church) in order to follow God’s inner stirring to defend the orphan on a full-time basis.
Since June 2011, Coreluv International has grown from an idea to a nationally recognized non-profit organization that provides life-saving care to orphans in Haiti, Honduras, and soon in Uganda. Coreluv also has three feeding centers in India. Mike and Mandy are living their dream with their three children, John-Michael, Bethany, Christian, and will soon be adding Mylove, a Haitian orphan they are in the process of adopting.
Now through the end of the year, every donation to Coreluv is matched dollar for dollar. You can go to their website, coreluv.org, and find where to donate there. Coreluv will also be hosting a booth with their information at the 2018 M3 Conference. We hope to see you on February 23 & 24 as you join us to welcome Mike and Coreluv International! Click here to register and use promo code SPREADTHEWORDM318 to receive $5 off your registration.
M3 Welcomes Dr. Issam I. Raad to the 2018 M3 Conference
One week away from Christmas and our list of speakers just keeps on giving! The speaker we want to introduce you to today is Issam I. Raad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA. Dr. Raad has titled his 2018 M3 Conference Plenary session, “Mission Impossible, Made Possible.”
Dr. Raad is considered one of the leading experts in the field of healthcare related infections and infections in cancer worldwide. An Endowed Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Dr. Raad Chairs MD Anderson’s Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health.
Over the last two decades, Dr. Raad has been widely honored for creative research, compassionate patient care and outstanding teaching and mentorship with more than 25 prestigious national & international awards. In 2016, Dr. Raad received three prestigious awards namely: The University of Texas Regents Outstanding Teaching Award, the MD Anderson Division of Internal Medicine Robert E Gagel Lifetime Achievement Award and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor which was previously given to six US Presidents. In 2015, Dr. Raad received the 2015 SHEA Mentor Scholar Award in recognition of his distinguished record over the last two decades in mentoring fellows and junior faculty; most of whom assumed advanced two high leadership positions in medicine. In 2006, Dr. Raad received the highest clinical research award given by MD Anderson. In 2004, he received the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association’s Outstanding Inventor Award for developing technologies to prevent infections. He was also commissioned in 2004 by the Governor of Texas as an Admiral in the Texas Navy. In addition, since 2002, he has been cited in several lists of “best doctors” in the United States.
Dr. Raad has published over 400 scientific articles in high impact peer-reviewed journals and over 35 book chapters. Dr. Raad’s studies have been heavily cited, achieving an H-index score of 80 which is the highest among his faculty peers in Internal Medicine at MD Anderson. He holds more than 73 issued patents and 17 pending patents, most of which are already applied to patient care. Because of this, Dr. Raad ranks in the upper 1% of inventors at MD Anderson in terms of patent productivity. He co-authored CDC and IDSA Guidelines, on lntravascular Catheter-Related Infections since 2001 till now. He is also the President of the American Lebanese Medical Association (ALMA).
In 1989, Dr. Raad and a few Bible-believing physicians met during a conference in Washington, D.C and founded the ministry of HOME, a Christian, interdenominational organization that exists to offer physical and spiritual healing to people in need in the Middle East. Dr. Raad, serving as the President has led HOME to a lasting commitment to sharing the healing grace of Christ and bringing the Good News to every Arab around the world. Above all, Dr. Raad’s greatest passion is to share the eternal love of Christ with his people and to live for Him who loved unto death – the death of the cross.
We know you will be blessed by Dr. Raad and we hope to see you February 23 & 24 for the 2018 M3 Conference. Click here to register and use promo code SPREADTHEWORDM318 to receive $5 off your registration!