ICMDA World Congress 2026

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  • Dr Dae-Young Lee

    Dr Dae-Young Lee

    Dae-Young Lee MD/PhD

    • Specialized in General Surgery at Presbyterian Medical Center, Korea in 1999.
    • Earned PhD in medicine, 2002.
    • Served as medical missionary in the Arab World from 2002 to 2019
    • Studied at Columbia International University (MDiv in Global studies and PhD in
      Intercultural studies)
    • Ordained as pastor in International Presbyterian Church (IPC), London, UK
    • Currently working as General Surgeon, Director of the International Health Care Center,
      and Director of Palliative Care Center at Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Korea
    • Publish: “Shalom, God’s Ultimate Purpose of the World (Wipf & Stock, 2021)
  • Dr Hedwin Kadrianto

    Dr Hedwin Kadrianto

    AEO for East Asia, South East Asia & Oceania

    Hedwin is an Indonesian dentist with postgraduate study in Oral Medicine. He was born again in 2007, and since then has been involved in local and national student ministry through IFES and CMDF Indonesia.
    In October 2016, he was appointed as an AEO for ICMDA’s South East Asia student and junior graduate ministry; this was expanded to cover the Oceania region in 2020 and the East Asia region in 2022.
    He has a particular interest in giving dental treatments for people with HIV, as well as promoting equality of dental treatment access for people with HIV in Indonesia. He is married to Ruth, a GP, and they have two sons.

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  • Dr Victor Fredlund

    Dr Victor Fredlund

    Victor Fredlund graduated in 1979 from London University. In 1981 he started as a medical officer in Mseleni Hospital, KZN, South Africa became Medical Superintendent in 1985 and retired at the end of March 2021. Involved in hospital administration, planning and development, as well as day to day clinical practice. He has written research papers on TB, HIV and Mseleni joint disease; and was also involved in community development, water, sanitation, job creation, education, orphan care, youth work and church ministry.  At present running Ngithume Nkosi, which seeks to encourage health workers to a life of service to the community.

  • Dr Kristina Alikanyan

    Dr Kristina Alikanyan

    Kristina was born in Armenia and grew up in an atheistic family.

    In 2001 she got her MD degree from Yerevan State Medical University and in 2006 she did her PhD. Until 2015 Kristina worked in the Yerevan State Medical University as an associate professor and then she and her husband moved to Atlanta, Georgia (US), to pursue postdoctoral training in neuroscience at Emory Medical School.

    Kristina became a Christian in 2002 after graduating from the Medical University and in 2006 they formed the Armenian Christian Medical Association (ACMA NGO) where she served as CEO for eight years. Since 2013 Kristina and her husband Hanri, who is a dentist, have been involved with ICMDA with the aim to help Christian doctors of Turkey and Georgia to form their own national Christian medical movements.

  • Maria Akani

    Maria Akani

    Maria is an enthusiastic life transformation expert who works with both individuals and groups to facilitate positive change. Her knowledge of human behaviour, learning and motivation has given her exceptional skills in translating goals into custom-made action plans. Her vivacious approach promotes engagement essential for optimum performance at an individual level and within groups.

    Specialties:
    Depression, Anxiety, Life Transitions, Emotional and Behavioral Dysregulation, Self-harm, Suicidality, Eating Disorders, CBT, Parenting Skills, Trauma, Communication Skills, Self-Awareness, Relationships

  • Dr Anthony Enimil

    Dr Anthony Enimil

    BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

    NAME:  Enimil, Anthony K.

    Senior Lecturer

    Contact information

    Directorate of Child Health

    Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

    Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa

    Tel: 00233(20)8164433

    Email: [email protected]/[email protected]

    Infectious diseases subspecialist- Colleges of Medicine of South Africa, 2020

    MPhil-Paediatric Infectious Diseases- Cape Town University, South Africa, 2020

    Fellowship in Epidemiology and Biostatistics– University of North South Wales, Australia, 2019

    Out-going ICMDA Regional Secretary for West Africa

    In-coming Regional Board Chairman, ICMDA West Africa

    Missions Director, Living way sanctuary assemblies of God church

    Family life: Married to Helena , and blessed with 3 daughters

  • Dr John Greenall

    Dr John Greenall

    Bio – Dr John Greenall is CMF UK Associate CEO and a paediatrician in London. He has an interest in leadership and discipleship and seeks to live these out in all spheres of live including at work and at home with his wife and four children.

    1. Principles of teamwork:  Understanding what a team is, knowing team dynamics, how to be a positive team player 
    2. Resilient Discipleship: How do we make disciples who make disciples in the world of medicine? Building on research from CMF UK we will consider the characteristics of 18–29-year Olds that lead to resilient and enduring faith and that forms leaders of the future
  • Dr Jorge Patpatian

    Dr Jorge Patpatian

    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

    Fi McLachlan

    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.

  • Prof John Whitehall

    Prof John Whitehall

    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.