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CMDA Senior Staff
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Dr. David Stevens serves as the Chief
Executive Officer for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations.
From 1981 to 1991, Dr. Stevens served as a missionary doctor in Kenya
helping to transform Tenwek Hospital into one of the premier mission
healthcare facility. Subsequently, he served as the Director of World
Medical Mission, the medical arm of Samaritan’s Purse, assisting
mission hospitals and leading medical relief teams into war and disaster
zones. As a leading spokesman for Christian doctors in America, Dr.
Stevens has conducted hundreds of television, radio and print media
interviews. Dr. Stevens holds degrees from Asbury College and the
University of Louisville School of Medicine and is board certified in
family practice. He earned a master’s degree in bioethics from
Trinity International University in 2002. |
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Dr. Gene Rudd is Senior Vice President
with responsibility for overseeing the operations of CMDA. He trained
and served in the military as an Obstetrician/Gynecologist before
entering private practice in an underserved area of North Carolina.
Before joining CMDA in 1995 he served at Samaritan’s Purse and led
work in Russia, Bosnia and Rwanda. He has edited many of CMDA’s
books including Practice by the Book, the manifesto on what it means to
be a Christian doctor. He is a nice guy, turns a mean bowl and is a
great neighbor! |
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Colette Davis is the Chief Financial
Officer of CMDA. She is a CPA (certified public accountant) and is
an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts
and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accounts. She is
also a member of the Christian Management Association. In her
early work years, Colette worked in banking and then became a
stay-at-home mom until she returned to college to get a degree in
accounting. Colette served as an auditor in public accounting
before coming to work for CMDA in June of 1995. Colette states, "I
love working for CMDA -- I love the job, I love the people I work with,
I love being part of the ministry, and I love our members." |
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David Bushong is the Director of the
Digital Media Center. In 1995 David joined the staff of the Christian
Medical & Dental Associations and started the Digital Media Center
for CMDA. Currently the Digital Media Center provides audio files,
videos, and still images to produce resources for the Christian Medical
& Dental Associations. Before coming to CMDA Dave served
with World Gospel Mission. He loves windsurfing and
radio-controlled airplanes. |
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Jamey Campbell returned to his home of
East Tennessee in 2007 when he became the Vice President of Stewardship
Development for CMDA. Jamey has spent the last 12 years in Development,
most recently as Vice President of Development for Precept Ministries,
an international ministry in over 140 countries. Jamey believes that the
only thing that stands between where CMDA currently is and where we want
to be is finances and that his job is to help facilitate that movement.
Jamey’s responsibilities include supporting the efforts of
CMDA’s members, raising money for its ministries, providing
stewardship education for our membership and joining our area and
regional staff to raise money to support their ministries. Jamey and his
wife Janeen have two daughters and reside in the Tri-City
area. |
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Susan Carter, BSN, MPH is the Director
of the Center for Medical Missions, CMDA’s ministry that seeks to
inspire, educate and equip healthcare personnel for long-term medical
mission service. Prior to joining CMDA, Susan spent 23 years as a
missionary in Kenya where she held multiple positions at Tenwek
Hospital. Her first love was teaching and equipping people in rural
communities to be healthy and provide well for their children. In 1994
though, she became the hospital CEO. Susan joined CMDA in 2003 after
leaving Kenya when the Kenyan she mentored for seven years took over the
leadership of Tenwek Hospital. She finds her varied missionary
experience invaluable in her CMDA role. |
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Jonathan Imbody Jonathan Imbody serves
as the Vice President for Government Relations in the Washington
Office. A veteran writer of over 20 years, Jonathan's work has appeared
in national media such as the Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles
Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and many other
publications. Jonathan received his bachelor's degree in communications
from the Pennsylvania State University, a certificate in theological
studies from the Alliance Theological Seminary in New York and a
master's degree from Penn State in counseling and education. Jonathan's
wife Amy is an author and educator. They have four children: Bethany,
Daniel, Jeanne and David and live in the Washington, DC suburb of
Ashburn, VA. |
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Dr. Don Thompson serves as the Director of
Global Health Outreach, the international mission department of
Christian Medical & Dental Associations. Don attended the F. Edward
Hébert School of Medicine in Bethesda, MD, and did his family
medicine residency training at the Robert L. Thompson Community Hospital
in Fort Worth, Texas. He did an additional residency in Preventive
Medicine at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana,
where he also earned a Masters Degree in Public Health and Tropical
Medicine. Don has been a member of CMDA since medical school, and has
been on short-term trips to Albania, Honduras, Mexico, and
Ethiopia. He has faculty appointments in Family Medicine and
Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, and most recently worked at the
George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where he worked on
medical and public health preparedness. He particularly enjoys
working alongside national physicians and medical students, and learning
from them while meeting the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of
patients. He praises our Lord for being blessed with godly wife, Miriam
and a quiver of four arrows: Catherine and her husband James; Jennifer;
and Joshua, and one dart – grandson Elijah Zion - born to
Catherine and James in May 2010.
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Margie Shealy is the Vice President of
Communications promoting the mission and vision of CMDA through
facilitation of written and oral communications. "I love developing
relationships with the media, but even better I love developing Godly
relationships with our members." Margie joined CMDA in 2002. She
believes her previous 22 years of experience in television and
healthcare was God's preparation to fulfill her role at CMDA. Her
interests in human behavior has developed her into a people-watcher, but
her respect for privacy even in public places creates a dilemma so she
goes to places like the Bristol race and ballgames where she tries to
inconspicuously watch others. |
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Dr. J. Scott Ries is the Vice President
for Campus and Community Ministries. His clinical career has included
faculty appointments at Indiana University School of Medicine and Butler
University and has spanned from academic medicine, to clinical research,
to full time private practice. Dr. Ries has been involved in all
levels of CMDA for 20 years, starting as a medical student leader on the
campus of Indiana University School of Medicine and continuing as
Resident Trustee on the CMDA Board of Trustees. As a Team Leader
with Global Health Outreach, he has led over 100 medical and dental
students to follow God’s call to serve on medical missions’
experiences. Dr. Ries has served on the CMDA Board of
Trustees.
Dr. Ries met his bride, Jodi, while a student at Liberty
University. They have three children, Grace, Lauren and Jason.
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