Winter Missions Breakfast

Please set aside the date and sign up now for our Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 23rd, from 9-11 am at the Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. We're going to have a smorgasbord of local speakers, including Drs. Christine Birnie, Norm Wetterau, and Larry Gage who will be talking about their missions experiences and associated opportunities in India, Africa, and Nicaragua, so don't miss this one!

Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note location (click here for Directions to the Academy of Medicine).

Fall MD Breakfast

Our next Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, October 17th, from 9-11 am at the Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. Dr. Hank Paszko will be sharing on the topic "Serving in Uncertain Times - Maintaining personal balance in a time when social and economic factors are pressing in on medical practice from all directions."

Hank is the Medical Director of Churchville-Chili Family Medicine. He did his undergraduate work as an English major at Columbia University and attended medical school at the University of Rochester where he received a Reader's Digest international fellowship to do medical work in Zambia, Africa during his last year. After graduation he did an additional year of post doctorate training in Orthopedic Surgery before completing his residency in Family Medicine. He recently received a Master of Arts in Theology from Northeastern Seminary and serves as Pastor of Faith Community Church in LeRoy. Hank has been married for over twenty years and has four children.

Please set the date aside, mark your calendars, and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note location (click here for Directions to the Academy of Medicine).

Spring Physician Breakfast

The MCCF Spring Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, May 2, from 9-11 am at the Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue.

Topic: Panel on Medical Marriage

Dr. Tom and Vicki Ball, Dr. Cathy and Alan Goodfellow, and Drs. David and Mary Kay Ness will be sharing with us and responding to questions about how they've been have been able to mix medicine and marriage in their households. Please come and bring your spouse or significant other. Feel free to invite any friends or colleagues who might be interested, too!

Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note the location (click here for Directions to the Academy of Medicine).

Winter Missions Breakfast

Please set aside the date and sign up now for our Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 24th, from 9-11 am at the Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. We're going to have a smorgasbord of local speakers (including 3 URMC residents, a nurse, and a faculty pharmacologist) who'll be talking about missions experiences and opportunities from El Salvador to Honduras, by way of Jordan and India, so don't miss this one!

Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note location (click here for Directions to the Academy of Medicine).

Fall MD Breakfast

Our next Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, October 18th, from 9-11 am at the Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. Christian counselor Charlie Coté will be speaking about “Coping with the Impact of Grief.” In addition to insights from his professional practice, Charlie has a deeply moving personal testimony to share. Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note location (click here for Directions to the Academy of Medicine).

Spring MD Breakfast

The MCCF Spring MD Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, April 26, from 9-11 am at the Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue.

Drs. Dave and Mary Kay Ness will be back from Oaxaca Mexico to share with us about their commitment and recent missions experiences serving in Roca Blanca. For more background information about the ministry they've become involved in, check out their website and then come to hear an up-to-date report!

Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note our new location (click here for Directions to the Academy of Medicine).

Winter Missions Breakfast

Please set aside the date and sign up now for our Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 19th, from 9-11 am at the Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. We're going to have a smorgasbord of local speakers (including 2 URMC residents and one faculty member) who'll be talking about missions experiences and opportunities from Honduras to Iraq, by way of Uganda and Tenwek Hospital in Kenya, so don't miss this one!

Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note change of location (click here for Directions to the Academy of Medicine).

Fall MD Breakfast

Our next Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, September 29th, from 9-11 am at the Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. Dr. David Holmes, President of the Western NY chapter of CMDA, will be coming with a team from Buffalo to address the topic "To the Least of These." David has been instrumental in advocating for improved medical care for the underserved in his community, most recently through the establishment of the Good Neighbors Health Care center.

Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note change of location (click here for Directions to the Academy of Medicine).

Spring MD Breakfast

Our Spring MCCF MD Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, May 5th, from 9-11 am at the Meliora Faculty Club on the River Campus. Dr. Chet Fox, a faculty member at UB with years of experience as a family physician, will share with us about "Praying with Patients: Tips, Tricks, and Traps." Please mark your calendars and sign up now.

Winter MD Breakfast

The annual MCCF Missions Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, February 10th, from 9-11 am at the Meliora Faculty Club on the River Campus. Speakers will include:

• Dr. Jeff Harp - Haiti mission
• Drs. Nick Venci and Chuck Culbertson - Senegal mission
• Jared Tomlinson - Ghana mission
• Dave & Diann Conquest - Dr. Keir Thelander's work at Bongolo Evangelical Hospital in Gabon, Africa
• Dr. John Seaman - Disaster Preparedness

Information about the upcoming CMDA Global Health Outreach trip to Nicaragua in 4/07 will also be presented. Mark your calendars and sign up now!

Upstate MCCF Retreat

On Saturday morning, September 23, 2006, students and community physicians converged on Rochester from as far as Connecticut to attend our Upstate MCCF Retreat - a stimulating day of feasting, fellowship, and education. The day started with our Fall Christian Physicians Breakfast where Dr. Daniel Fountain, MD, MPH, began the first in a series of 5 informative and discussion-provoking sessions on the subject: "What's wrong with US health care and how can we fix it?"

Schedule

Click links below for PowerPoint presentations:
8:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 Problems with the biomedical model and the US health care system
10:00 Restoring wholeness to medicine from both scientific and biblical perspectives
11:00 Wholistic approaches to common psychosocial problems
Noon Lunch and Discussion
1:30 How to do a personal and spiritual assessment
2:30 The logistics of forming a care giving team
3:30 Retreat ended

Dr. Sherry O'Donnell, one of Dr. Fountain's close colleagues in whole person medicine while he was in Michigan, joined us and shared in the teaching.

The Retreat was hosted at The Meliora Faculty Club on the U of R River Campus. Physicians received up to 5 hours of Category I CME credit for their participation. The event was a wonderful time of spiritual nurture and growth for all who attended.

Spring MD Breakfast

The MCCF Spring MD Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, April 29, from 9-11 am at the Meliora on the U of R River Campus and will feature Dr. Len Marotta and his wife Jayne sharing on the topic "God in Gynecology? Being a Bond-Servant Wherever You Are." Len has an active Ob/Gyn practice in Syracuse where he is a popular teacher at SUNY Upstate. We've posted one of Len's handouts on "Sexuality and the Scriptures" online here. Please mark your calendars and sign up now!

Winter MD Breakfast

Our annual MCCF Missions Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, January 28th from 9-11 am at the Meliora faculty club on the U of R River Campus. Speakers will include:

• The Cannon Family (trip to Honduras this summer)
• Alexi Matousek and Sarah Bliss (trip to Haiti)
• Drs. John Seaman and David Ragonesi (trip to Tibet)
• Dr. David Holmes (Buffalo outreach)

Mark your calendars and sign up now!