Jorge Patpatian is a medical doctor and sexologist. He is the founder of the Uruguayan Christian Association of Health Professionals and has been involved with the ICMDA family since the World Congress in Cancun, Mexico in 1986.
He was the chair of the Organizing Committee for the Uruguay World Congress in 2010.
He regularly participates in radios programs and exposes issues related to family, marriage, and sexuality. He and his wife Anahid have one son, Sergio, and grandson.
Fi McLachlan has a background in mission leadership and healthcare management. She is currently the Head of CMK UK Global team and is involved in seeking to envision and train healthcare professionals in how they can seek to serve God, wherever He might lead them.
John Whitehall is an Australian professor of Pediatrics who has lived and worked in various countries including from Africa and Asia to north and ‘central’ America. In the process he sub-specialized in neonatology from which grew a particular interest in brain development. When, in 2016, he heard assertions that ‘blocking’ the hormone that initiates puberty (Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone) was a ‘safe and entirely’ reversible procedure that would simply ‘provide time for a gender confused child’ to consider his or her identity, he set out to learn more.
In that process, visiting research centers, communicating with researchers and reading widely he concluded ‘blocking puberty to determine identity’ was biologically implausible, physiologically damaging, and likely to commit the child to the whole process of ‘affirmation’ to a gender contrary to chromosomes. On this theme he has published widely.
Presently the CEO of Companions of Grace International, Dr. Mathew George Mulavelil spent twenty years with the Emmanuel Hospital Association holding the positions of Coordinator of Oral Health Services, the Medical and Managing Director of the Duncan Hospital Raxaul Bihar. Following which he was seconded to the Evangelical Medical Fellowship Of India (EMFI) as the Secretary of Missions, From 2013 to 2019 he was with the Evangelical Medical Fellowship of India (EMFI) heading its Missions Department. He oversaw its various Mission training programs and developed new paradigms and directions in healthcare missions as well as mentored a significant number of young students and professionals.
Companions of Grace International (COGI) seeks to Challenge, Teach and Empower healthcare professionals to be “On Mission”.
Dr Stephen Muhudhia is a medical doctor, specialised in paediatrics and child health as well as bioethics. He has qualifications in Bioethics and Health Law; a Master’s degree in Bioethics and Health Law from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, a Post Graduate Diploma in Biomedical Ethics, from the Centre for Bioethics and Culture of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplant in Karachi, Pakistan. He also has additional training by UNESCO is a UNESCO certified teacher of ethics.
Dr Muhudhia is an adjunct professor of Bioethics at Trinity International University and a Co- Director of the Trinity International University Africa Bioethics Initiative program. He is a part-time lecturer in bioethics at Kabarak University, Kenya. In addition, he serves as faculty on the CBEC-KEMRI Bioethics Training Initiative, an NIH-funded program for capacity building in the fields of Research Ethics, Clinical Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Research methodology and IRB administration.
Dr Muhudhia is a member of the Scientific, Ethics and Research Unit (SERU) of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). He has served for two years on the IRB of Gertrude’s Institute of Child Health and Research in Nairobi, Kenya.
He has a Certificate in advanced leadership from Haggai International and a certificate in Corporate Governance
He is a member of the Bioethics Society of Kenya.
Simon has been married to Esther for 31 years and has 3 grown up children and is based in Southampton.
He is a Consultant in Occupational Medicine in the UK with a particular expertise and experience in providing such services to Clergy and other Church Ministers.
Simon has 20 years’ experience providing specialist occupational & travel health services to missionaries, church leaders and aid workers, working for InterHealth until its closure in 2017 and now under the auspices of a new organisation, Thrive Worldwide.
Prior to this, Simon lived with his family in Tanzania as mission partners with Crosslinks, an Anglican mission agency (1996 – 2002). He is an active member of his local Anglican church and is a lay member for the Diocese of Winchester on the General Synod of the Church of England. He has been an active member of the Christian Medical Fellowship since his Medical School days at Guy’s Hospital, London 1981 – 1986 and currently serves on the Global Committee.
