* February 6, 2012 Monday - 6:30pm – Greater Los Angeles Night with Dave Stevens, MD, MAethics. Dave has been leading CMDA for 15 years now. He’s an author, Jesus, MD and nationally respected speaker. Get more information here.

* March 24-31, 2012 A medical/dental outreach to include UCLA dental students is starting during their spring break. Each of these trips will be a cooperative effort between the Christian Dental and Medical Fellowships on the campuses, CMDA, Help the Children, and Verbo Church, in Atitlan, Guatemala. Christian pastors and missionaries in Guatemala will also be serving with us. Each trip will cost $1700. For more information, have interested dentists and physicians contact me at drmiker@sbcglobal.net.

* April 21-28, 2012 A medical/dental outreach to include USC dental students is going to go to Villa Nueva, Guatemala during their spring break,. Each of these trips will be a cooperative effort between the Christian Dental and Medical Fellowships on the campuses, CMDA, Help the Children, and Verbo Church, in Guatemala. Christian pastors and missionaries in Guatemala will also be serving with us. Each trip will cost $1700. For more information, have interested dentists and physicians contact me at drmiker@sbcglobal.net.Here's a video from last year's USC outreach.

* April 26-29, 2012 - CMDA National Convention, “Peace Amidst the Storm” Ridgecrest Conference Center, North Carolina, contact Melinda Mitchell at Melinda.mitchell@cmda.org or 888-230-2637

* September 27-29, 2012 - Healthcare Missions Conference, Fuller Theological Seminary Campus, Pasadena, CA. The Conference hosts 25 respected national and international speakers. There will be exhibitors who will give you an opportunity to live your calling! You will have one-on-one access to leaders in over 30 related healthcare fields. There are special discounted registration rates for students, pastors and missionaries!

* For more opportunities in healthcare ethics and global missions see: www.cmda.org. Please contact the GHO office at (423)844-1000. CMDA runs nearly 50 two weeks mission trips each year through GHO.

* For those interested in local inner city ministry. There are quite of few of us serving at the LA Christian Health Center. Started in the LA Mission in the heart of skidrow in downtown Los Angeles. The LA Christian Health Center is providing wonderful medical and dental services as part of a Christian witness to the least of our neighbors. Write us if you're interested: Dcampbell at lachc.com

* Inland Empire(Riverside/San Bernardino) Path of Life Minstries operates two homeless shelters, with clinic services being provided once or twice per month. If CMDA members are interested in serving four hours per month, please have them contact jbranch000 at aol.com

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For more information on local meetings and activities:
Pasadena, Grace Jeon, gracej@lakeave.org
Irvine, Marina Ball, marina.a.ball@kp.org
Ventura County, see www.cmdaventurachapter.com
Redlands/Loma Linda, Robert Soderblom, rsoderblom@hotmail.com
West LA/UCLA, http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/cmda/
LA County / USC Paul Holtom, MD, PhD. Holtom at http://hsc.usc.edu
San Fernando Valley Olive View Resident Fellowship Mike Cho, MD at Mikecho@gmail.com
Pomona /Western University of Health Sciences: Robert Christman, Professor of Podiatric Medicine
Fresno, George C. Gonzalez, georgeang@comcast.net
San Diego, Nick Yphantides, drnick@healthsteward.com

National Student Website at cmda.org tab ministry, outreach, and students
Facebook has many CMDA groups