Burton Adrian, MD

Dr. Adrian graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1983. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado from 1983-86, then served as an officer in the US Army Medical Corp in Wuerzburg Germany until 1989.  He practiced internal medicine in Waterloo, Iowa from 1990 until 2018 while raising three children. 

He began his training in church planting and cross-cultural evangelism in 2011 with his wife Connie and was beginning this new pursuit with her until her death on the mission field in Indonesia in January 2017. His experience as a missionary in the jungles of Borneo and a calling from the Lord to continue Christian outreach as a medical missionary caused him to pursue his Diploma in International Medicine and Public Health in 2018-2019 and a Masters in 2020-2021. He has served in ministry in Indonesia in 2018, 2019 and 2020 as well as serving as a physician at Baptist Medical Center (BMC) in Nalerigu, Ghana, in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. He was most recently successful in bringing Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) to BMC in Ghana.  With his use of POCUS the hospital realized a 2-3 day reduction in the length of stays across all diagnostic categories and a 50% decline in mortality and readmission rates.

Scott Armistead, MD

Barry Bacon, MD

Dr. Barry Bacon has practiced and taught full-spectrum family medicine in the US and East Africa for over thirty years. He is committed to global health and community health at home, including a peace initiative in Kenya, a medical school in Ethiopia, and ending homelessness in NE Washington.

Martha Baird, PhD

Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH

Nicholas Comninellis is President and Professor of INMED, the Institute for International Medicine. He is also faculty at Research Medical Center Family Medicine Residency. Over a two-year period Dr. Comninellis served inner-city citizens at Shanghai Charity Hospital. Over another two years, he led a healthcare ministry in the war-besieged nation of Angola in southern Africa. Dr. Comninellis next served for six years in the Kansas City public hospital before launching INMED in 2003.

He graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Public Health and was a family medicine resident at John Peter Smith Hospital. Dr. Comninellis also earned a professional diploma in tropical medicine from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and became board certified in both public health and family medicine. Among his authored books are Shanghai Doctor, Where Do I Go From Here, and INMED International Medicine & Public Health. Dr. Comninellis is a classical guitarist and faculty co-advisor for UMKC Cru. He was recognized as the 2009 United Nations Association of the United States World Citizen and the 2015 University of Missouri-Kansas City Alumni of the Year.

Mike Chupp, MD

In 2016, Dr. Mike Chupp completed 20 years of service as a career missionary surgeon with World Gospel Mission (WGM), serving at Tenwek Mission Hospital in Kenya. Dr. David Stevens invited Mike to join the executive leadership team of CMDA in Bristol, TN in mid-2016. Mike joyfully shares “It has been a great honor to help lead the organization that has had the longest and most profound impact on my professional life as a Christian physician.” Dr. Chupp was appointed CEO by the CMDA Board in September 2019, as Dr. Stevens’ successor. With God’s help, CMDA has continued to advance and thrive under Dr. Chupp’s leadership; pursuing the vision of “Bringing the hope and healing of Christ to the world through healthcare professionals”. Mike has been married to Pam for 32 years and they have four adult children and one granddaughter.

Dr. Chupp is a board-certified general surgeon, former career missionary in Kenya of 20 years, who is in his seventh year as a senior leader of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, first as Executive Vice President and now as Chief Executive Officer in his fifth year.

Hibba Haider, MD

Hibba Haider is Medical Director Baytown Pediatrics in Houston, Texas, and a graduate of the INMED Master’s Degree in International Health. She is also Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor Kansas Health Center and Wichita Osteopathic School of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Haider continues to be actively teaching Helping Babies Breathe (Essential Newborn Care 1) at Fatima Jinnah Medical College for Women in Lahore, Pakistan.

Catherine Hooper

Jill John-Kall, MD

Dr. John-Kall is a physician with more than 19 years’ of experience in international health, including emergency response, protracted crises, and development. She has worked in many countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, working to improve access to and availability of healthcare services for populations in need.

Roxanne Jones, RN

Roxanne holds a BSN from Mid-America Nazarene University and an MA in Gerontology and Health Services Management. She has served with Global Care Force since August 2022. She oversees the deployment of medical volunteers domestically and internationally, including leading 11 deployments to Ukraine as of February 2024.

Shelley Loethen, GPC

Shelley is a nonprofit strategist working to increase innovation and impact. Since founding Encore more than a decade ago, the Encore team has helped organizations secure more than $90 million in grant funding, provided hundreds of hours of workshops, and helped organizations develop strategic roadmaps for growth and greater impact.

Nicholas Maxwell, MD

Morgan Merrell, LCSW

Morgan Merrell is the Director of Health and Wellness and has spent the last ten years working in refugee resettlement, both in Kansas City and in Philadelphia, Pa. She is passionate about welcoming newcomer and the value of diverse communities.

Tim Myrick, MD

Dr. Timothy Myrick lived and served for two decades with his family in the Muslim world, including sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Horn of Africa – including INMED Training Sites Kanad Hospital and Kijabe Hospital. His wife, Lori, has served as a labor and delivery nurse alongside him. While in Kenya, they focused on the needs of Somali refugees. Dr. Myrick communicates fluently in Arabic and French, has taught medical school in northern Somalia, and is currently teaching family medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Dennis Palmer, MD

Dr. Palmer is an internist who has been involved in health care in Cameroon for more than 40 years. His primary interests are appropriate technology in low resource settings, post-graduate medical education and medical informatics. 

Diane Petrie, APRN

Diane Petrie received her BSN from Cedarville University and MSN from The University of Central Missouri. She has worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Children’s Mercy Kansas City for the past 10 years including 6 years in the Infectious Diseases Clinic treating patients living with HIV. She is a graduate of the MATEC HIV Clinician Scholars Program which she completed while working in HIV Primary Care at the KC CARE Health Center in Kansas City. She is certified in HIV Medicine through the American Academy of HIV Medicine. She has special interests in HIV, travel medicine, global health, refugee care, and care of adolescent sexually transmitted infections. She lives in Raymore, Missouri with her husband of 15 years and her 3 young kids.

Julie Rosá, MD

Dr. Rosá is a Family Medicine physician and graduate of the University of Kansas School of Medicine (1991-1995). Dr. Julie, as she is affectionately called both in Hiawatha, Kansas and at Kanad Hospital in UAE, completed a Family Medicine Residency at Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency (1995-1998). She and her husband of 29 years both practiced Family Medicine in Hiawatha, Kansas at the then Hiawatha Community Hospital (1998-2022). Her full spectrum family medicine practice included surgical obstetrics, emergency medicine, inpatient and outpatient whole person healthcare focused on the love and care of Jesus Christ.

Dr. Rosá participated in INMED’s Master’s Degree in International Health (MIH) program, which provided the knowledge, relationships, and opportunity for God to lead onward. Dr. Julie and her husband travelled the 2194.3 miles of the Appalachian Train and now live and practice medicine at Kanad Hospital in the sand dunes of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates.

Duane Spaulding, MD

Dr. Spaulding was educated in Michigan and Denver. After biomedical research at NIH and Harvard, he practiced Internal Medicine in Colorado Springs for 26 years initially in private practice and later as co-founder, CEO, and clinician with the first independent Hospitalist program in Colorado. After opting for early retirement, Dr. Spaulding was the medical director for Heart to Heart International–Haiti for 12 years overseeing 10 to 21 mobile clinics, training the Haitian medical staff, and supervising the deployment of many hundreds of expat medical volunteers. He has also trained global first responders about tropical diseases for the past seven years. Currently, Dr. Spaulding prepares medical teams on behalf of Global Care Force and Project C.U.R.E. (both have offices in the Kansas City area) prior to their deployments across five continents. In addition, he continues to enjoy opportunities to consult and teach in a dozen countries on the African continent.