Back to MedicalMissions.com
Close
What's New
Store
Stories
Content Resources
Members
Job Directory
Organizations
Podcast
Universities
Log In
GMHC 2026
2026 Global Missions Health Conference
November 12-14, 2026
Louisville, KY
In person and virtual event
Overview
Speakers
Sessions
Travel
Exhibitors
FAQ
Register Now
Explore all the sessions for GMHC 2026
Show All
In Person
Virtual
Thursday, Nov 12, 2026
2:00 pm
Plenary Session 1
3:45 pm
Breakout Sessions Block 1
From Donor Dependency to Durable Care: Mission Hospitals in a New Era of Global Health
Echo Nomsa VanderWal
Main Building ATCR 207/209 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Working as a native on the Los Angeles skid row for 25 years, how it started and where my role ends.
David Campbell
Main Building Chapel (Theater Style Only)
In Person
Virtual
Healthcare and Church Planting among Unreached, Low-Income Communities in Asia
P. Kreg Mallow
Main Building ED 280 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Best Practices in Short-Term Healthcare Missions
Rebecca Meyer
Main Building ED 235 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
People, Place, and Powers: the challenge of teamwork
Dr. Jennifer Myhre
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Friday, Nov 13, 2026
8:00 am
Plenary Session 2
10:00 am
Breakout Sessions Block 2 (2-Hour Intensives)
The Training Years: A Student’s Guide to a Missional Life
Jessie Thomas
Main Building ED 210/211/212 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Nursing Education Unleashed: Gathering at the Crossroads of Calling and Care
Rebecca Meyer, Julie Rosa
Main Building ED 280 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
1:00 pm
Breakout Sessions Block 3
The Wounded Mission Field: How Lay-Led Trauma Healing Builds Healthy Disciples and Churches
Kristy Robison
Main Building ED 280 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Case studies in ultrasound in LMICs
Scott Armistead
Main Building ED 213 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Five Principles for having a sustainable, long-term impact on a short-term trip
Jaime Saint
Main Building ED 210/211/212 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
2:30 pm
Breakout Sessions Block 4
Mobilizing Pediatric Providers for the Kingdom
Rachel Jamison
Main Building AT 106/109 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Compassion Fatigue
Mark Topazian
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Medicine, Muslims, and Missions
Luke Cutherell
Main Building ATCR 206 (Theater Seating Only)
In Person
Virtual
Digital Spine, Human Soul: How Technology Can Strengthen—not Replace—Mission Care
Echo Nomsa VanderWal
Main Building ATCR 207/209 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Allied Health Unleashed … Gathering at the Crossroads of Calling and Care in Allied Health Education
Julie Rosa , Skip Roy
Main Building ED 156 (Preschool Chapel)
In Person
Virtual
Securing Safe Medicine for Missions
Barry Ewy
Main Building ED 213 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
4:00 pm
Breakout Sessions Block 5
Invisible chains of human trafficking: Critical lessons learned from a teen survivor's story
Sharmayne Brooks
Main Building ATCR 207/209 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
The Person You're Becoming Matters Infinitely More Than the Work You're Doing (Or Will Do)
Rick Donlon, MD
Main Building Chapel (Theater Style Only)
In Person
Virtual
The Mess and the Mystery of Families in Mission
Elizabeth Perry
Main Building ED 280 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Sustaining the Smallest: nutrition, respiratory care, and thermoregulation for neonates in LMICs
Jennifer Harling
Main Building ED 213 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Bridging the Gap: Delivering Compassionate, Low-Barrier Care for the Unhoused and Under resourced
Tracy Frame
Main Building ED 210/211/212 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Finding and Following God's Call
Scott Dooley
Main Building ATCR 206 (Theater Seating Only)
In Person
Virtual
Emergency Refugee Care
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, DIMPH
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
I Am a Surgeon: and other lies I told myself
Michael Harling
Main Building AT 106/109 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
7:00 pm
Plenary Session 3
Saturday, Nov 14, 2026
8:00 am
Breakout Sessions Block 6
Past, Present, and Future of Medical Missions
Rebekah Naylor
Main Building AT 106/109 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Supporting Global Health through Medical Education: Critical Care Example
Burton Lee
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Invisible chains of human trafficking: Critical lessons learned from a teen survivor's story
Repeat
Sharmayne Brooks
Main Building ATCR 207/209 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
From Rest to Rejuvenation: Self Care for the Medical Missionary
Meredith Shuman
Main Building Chapel (Theater Style Only)
In Person
Virtual
Emergency Dental Diagnosis and Management for the Non-Dentist
Jonathan Spenn
Main Building ED 156 (Preschool Chapel)
In Person
Virtual
Compassion Fatigue
Repeat
Mark Topazian
Main Building ATCR 206 (Theater Seating Only)
In Person
Virtual
9:30 am
Breakout Sessions Block 7
Shattered Expectations
Tom Hicks
Main Building ED 280 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
Building Friendships with Muslims in Your Own Backyard
Nicole M
Main Building ED 210/211/212 (Classroom)
In Person
Virtual
The Bloody Clash of Kingdoms; The Messiah, the Devil, and the Fate of the World
Rick Donlon, MD
Main Building Chapel (Theater Style Only)
In Person
Virtual
The Healthcare Missions Crisis No One's Talking About: The Global Decline of Christian Hippocratism
Mike Chupp, MD
Main Building ATCR 207/209 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Prayer as Medicine
Mark Topazian
Main Building ATCR 206 (Theater Seating Only)
In Person
Virtual
Top 10 Global Health Research Articles
Philip Dooley, Jeff Leman
Main Building ATCR 200/202 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Women on Mission
Rebekah Naylor
Main Building AT 106/109 (Banquet Style Tables Only)
In Person
Virtual
Brief therapy & psycho-education for underserved countries
Lisa Steiner
Main Building ED 156 (Preschool Chapel)
In Person
Virtual
11:00 am
Plenary Session 4