Unity for Service to God and Humanity

Association of International Medical Services journal Under the Auspices of the Alumni Association School of Medicine of 2007 (Volume 28, Number 4)

A Message from China —See page 3

Fe a t u r i n g : Adventist Nursing Around the World —See page 8 nursing program of the Seventh-day CONTENTS Adventist Church. Our lead story for this edition is a article on that program. Editorial ...... 2 Our first report about our world nursing From the President ...... 3 program appeared in the Journal in 2000, Medical-Ministerial Cooperation Featuring Dr. Tony Torres ...... 5 so an update is overdue. Reminder: March 3, 2008 ...... 7 The article was written by Patricia Adventist Nursing Education: Jones, PhD, RN, who is not only director A Tradition of Service ...... 8 of the International Nursing Outreach Directory of SDA of Loma Linda University School of Schools of Nursing ...... 13 International Impact of AIMS ...... 14 Nursing, but is also an Associate Director AIMS Life Members ...... 16 for the Department of Health Ministries Reflections of Honduras ...... 18 in the General Conference. As you peruse the life members section beginning on page 16, you will EDITORIAL note that two members have stepped On a trip earlier this year to attend a up to the plate and become Regional Life retiree function of the North American Members. Their names are listed under Division in the great state of Texas, I that category on page 18. came across information about a Texas Lastly, we are publishing a response physician who is also a pastor as well to the recent changes in the AIMS as a departmental director in the Texas organization by a long-time member, Conference. Dr. Tony Torres is the Dr. P. William Dysinger. We invite you Health Coordinator for the conference to read to the end of his article for an and pastor of the Cleburne, Texas, editorial response. Church. As he started work as a pastor, he ­—Don A. Roth, Editor quickly saw that his town needed a free General Conference Representative, medical clinic. He decided to combine Loma Linda Campus his ministerial work as well as his medical training to begin a clinic for local indigents. You will find his story on page five. It About the cover: Wendy Guptill, a is a classic example of how our ministers graduate nurse, has been providing can work together with physicians on primary healthcare to the people in every level. the remote mountain area of the President Jack Bennett writes once island of Palawan in the Southern again from China where he is the Loma Philippines. She is a volunteer with Linda University consultant at the Sir Adventist Frontier Missions and is Run Run Shaw Hospital. the only health professional in the We proudly dedicate this edition area. of the AIMS Journal to the worldwide

2 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) From the President

by Jack Bennett, MD

Insiders and Outsiders: A Visit to Tarsus

ost of us, most of the Luke, of course, was a physician, time, feel left out— presumably speaking from the special “Mmisfits. We don’t belong. perspective of those whose daily Others seem to be so confident, so sure professional experiences remind them of themselves, ‘insiders’ who know the that, under the skin, we are so alike. Luke ropes, old hands in a club from which not only wrote about women, common we are excluded.” So begins Eugene H. laborers and the poor, but his is also Peterson’s introduction to Luke’s Gospel the Gospel that introduces the Good in The Message, his profoundly influential Samaritan. In the book of Acts, Luke paraphrase of the Bible. “Luke is a most details the summons that came to Saul vigorous champion of the outsider,” (“insider” of “insiders,” see Galatians, continues Peterson. “An outsider chapter one) on his way to Damascus, himself, the only Gentile in an all-Jewish Saul’s tremulous acknowledgement of cast of New Testament writers, he shows , and his efforts to overcome the how Jesus includes those who typically suspicion and fear that his own actions were treated as outsiders by the religious have raised among those to whom he establishment of the day … As Luke now wishes to belong. When troubles tells the story, all of us who have found arise, Saul retreats to Tarsus. ourselves on the outside looking in on life And there he might have stayed, with no hope of gaining entrance (and faithful but obscure, had it not been for who of us hasn’t felt it?) now find the the proactive generosity of that man doors wide open, found and welcomed known as the Son of Encouragement. by God in Jesus.” Try to imagine the New Testament

AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) • 3 without the writings of Paul the Apostle. “Barnabas went to Tarsus.” Barnabas Visualize the early church without Paul’s understood the precarious nature of missionary journeys. Impossible, isn’t opportunity and the value of personal it? But without Barnabas, he might have insight into another person’s character, ended his days in a sigh, unknown, his needs, and abilities. “Barnabas went to talents wasted. Instead, there is that Tarsus,” clear to Tarsus, because otherwise crescendo of victory as he senses the he might miss the satisfaction of serving goal just ahead, spreads his arms and as a link between a great need and the declares, “I’ve run hard right to the fulfillment of that need. finish, believed all the way. All that’s left Are you overdue for a spiritual visit now is the shouting—God’s applause!” to Tarsus? Do you remember the needs (II Timothy 4: 7 The Message) of those lonely, overworked practitioners But, no. “Barnabas went on to that you left in their poorly-equipped Tarsus to look for Saul. He found him clinics, their overcrowded hospitals? and brought him back to Antioch. They Can you remember the vacant expression were there a whole year. … In Antioch that suffused the faces of their families the disciples were for the first time called when you praised them for their hard, Christians.” (Acts 11: 25, 26 The Message) unceasing work “for the Lord”? What The Encourager went in search of his about your friend who, late in coming former friend and colleague. to Christ, finds that his old colleagues It has come to my attention that we no longer lend him their comradeship? AIMS “insiders” may not have displayed Do you recall the joy you felt when you the spirit of Barnabas in our treatment became—for a season—their true yoke- of those Christian colleagues who, for fellow, their Barnabas? one reason or another, have not followed Tell us about them, if you can! We the education, professional training and want to “go to Tarsus” with AIMS. We experience pathway that is so familiar want to reach out to those who feel like to us. We may have served as their “outsiders” and let them know that the mentors during our years of service in AIMS circle of encouragement and their homelands, we may have interacted support will not be completed until their with them during a short-term mission hands are joined to ours. venture, or maybe we are physically Do you remember, or have you separated from them by no more than forgotten? a few city streets. Our professional and social needs satisfied, our zone of Editor’s Note: comfort established, we consider our Jack and Sharan Bennett write to you from contact with them as a souvenir that adds Hangzhou, China, where they do their best to color to our memories of other days. If encourage. we meet them again, we will experience a flush of satisfaction; knowing them Editor’s E-mail: reminds us that we really have seen the [email protected] world, yes sir, we have “friends” all over!

4 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) Medical-Ministerial Cooperation Featuring Dr. Tony Torres by Don Roth

exas physician Tony Torres is eventually became regular members. in the forefront in the North After high school Dr. Torres TAmerican Division on how to attended Atlantic in South combine a ministerial and a medical Lancaster, . He followed program at a local church. Dr. Torres is with a Master of Divinity degree from not only a pastor at the Cleburne Church, , in Michigan, and but he is also the Medical Outreach then became a pastor. Coordinator for the Texas Conference. After watching a film on Albert His major medical outreach in the Schweitzer when he was 32, Dr. Cleburne area has been to establish a Torres decided he should be a medical medical clinic for his local church and to missionary. He attended medical school go overseas to help those in medical need in the Dominican Republic, so he had to whenever he finds the opportunity. learn Spanish in order to participate in In the 1950s his parents decided to the class work and to take exams. relocate from Puerto Rico and settle in As part of the clinical training, Brooklyn, New York, where his father Dr. Torres and other students went out and mother hoped for a better life for to the countryside in both Haiti and their two young children. the Dominican Republic. His attitude But their tough Brooklyn towards life changed completely when neighborhood, close to what used to he saw the great need in that part of the be the Brooklyn Naval Yard, was rife world. with poverty and almost as bereft of opportunity as the Puerto Rican region the family left. The Torres family, however, had dreams for their children and they were willing to work hard to make sure their children got the best they could provide. Dr. Torres’ mother operated a sewing machine in a sweatshop while his father managed a restaurant in a restaurant chain. They were nominal Catholics, but in time they became acquainted with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Dr. Tony Torres

AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) • 5 After graduation from medical gave of their time to help with non- school, Dr. Torres returned to the medical aspects of the clinic. United States, and, because of his Dr. Torres thinks that the presence theological training, was asked by the of his small, free clinic eventually saved Texas Conference to become pastor of the county more than one million dollars the Cleburne Church. that otherwise would have gone to He immediately saw that a clinic was reimburse local hospitals for emergency needed to help those who were not able room visits that could not be paid for to go to expensive medical centers. other than through imbursement for So he started a clinic in his own indigent health care. church in Cleburne. The clinic is a joint He says, “We still need lots of project with his wife Deidre assisting in volunteers to keep things running and to the educational section and Dr. Torres keep things growing. Right now we are supervising the medical program. working on a teen abstinence program at Dr. Torres soon got the cooperation the same time we are working on getting of many physicians in the area who were the driveway paved.” willing to come and donate time on Dr. Torres is licensed to practice certain days of the week. He contacted medicine in the Dominican Republic, but companies who gave them materials and not in the United States, so he has medical supplies. Many of his church members colleagues assist him in the practice.

The clinic’s 1,000th patient (little boy, middle). Left to right: Beth Bullock (volunteer), Dr. Tony Torres, Ted Reynolds (Mayor of Cleburne), mother and child, Windy Wood, FNP, Diane Westcott

6 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) Together with his clinic and his work as pastor of a large church, he has little time for recreation or exercise. “My greatest pleasure comes from being able to help people, and I enjoy spending time with my wife and with my grandchildren,” says Dr. Torres. With the clinic growing and prospering, Dr. Torres feels he now has his feet planted in both worlds and like his hero, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, he can now attend to bodies as well as to souls. The AIMS Journal salutes Dr. Torres for his outstanding work as a preacher- physician. Dr. Jack Short, DO in ER Medicine; Susan Short, FNP

Just A Reminder—March 3, 2008

The Executive Committee and Board of AIMS recently voted on new tiered membership potentials of the Association of International Medical Services. Up until now we have had only one life membership level. The following will present to you seven levels of life membership. Please note, however, the first level, the Founder’s Life Membership, will terminate on March 3, 2008, thus leaving six levels of membership. The board invites you to carefully consider one of the following:

• $1,000 Founder’s Life Membership (to close March 3, 2008!) • $1,000 Local Life Membership • $2,000 Regional Life Membership • $4,000 National Life Membership • $7,500 International Life Membership • $12,500 Global Life Membership • $25,000 Universal Life Membership

AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) • 7 Special Report Adventist Nursing Education: A Tradition of Service

rom the beginning of Seventh- much greater than in their home country, day Adventist healthcare, has resulted in a rapid increase in the FAdventist schools of nursing number of SDA hospitals and liberal arts have contributed in a major way to the colleges and universities adding a school wholistic ministry of hospitals and or department of nursing. This increase clinics around the world. With healthcare is evident in the following report: a primary mission of the church, the In the year 2000 Loma Linda global SDA educational system is the University School of Nursing and the seat of many programs that focus on Department of Health Ministries in nursing education. Some programs are at the General Conference produced a the vocational level, some at the junior Directory of SDA Schools of Nursing, college level leading to an RN license, from vocational to university levels of but most are four-year Bachelor of programs. At that time, 53 schools were Science degree programs offered as an listed. In 2005, the second edition of the integral part of the curriculum in senior Directory listed 56 schools and today, colleges and universities. Perhaps the just two and half years later, there are 65 fastest growing number of programs is with the number growing rapidly. on this level since these graduates are Master’s degree programs in nursing more marketable to the Unites States and are offered at three SDA universities in other countries for employment. the US and at four Adventist universities The acute shortage of nurses in the in other parts of the world. Several United States and the United Kingdom, universities in other divisions of the and the large opportunity for nurses world church are currently developing prepared in less developed countries to master’s degree programs. One university migrate to areas where the income is offers a PhD program in nursing with

8 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) Adventist Nursing Education: A Tradition of Service

by Patricia S. Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN Professor and Director of International Nursing, LLUSN Associate Director, Department of Health Ministries, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

students enrolled from many different school of nursing. While the older countries. nursing program at Friedensau followed Some of these schools have the well-known Battle Creek model with functioned for many decades, or even a a preventive health approach, the new hundred years, and in 2007 celebrated school in Berlin was shaped more by significant milestones in their history. the rising medical model. However, it Three have been selected to be featured still emphasized the spiritual dimension below: of care. Until the end of World War II, collaboration between the seminary Waldfriede Hospital in Friedensau and Waldfriede Hospital School of Nursing continued to be close with some of Waldfriede Hospital School of the prerequisite classes being taught Nursing in Berlin, Germany, is one of at Friedensau. Countless nurses and the oldest SDA schools of nursing. On pastors from Friedensau have served as October 1, 2007 it celebrated 85 years of educating students in Berlin. The school is actually 112 years old since it was first established at Friedensau in 1895 and later relocated in Berlin in affiliation with Waldfriede Adventist Hospital. Waldfriede Hospital started in 1920 with 39 inpatient beds and rapidly expanded to 100 beds in two years in order to run a government-approved The original building of the hospital in Berlin, Germany

AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) • 9 missionaries all over the world. School of Nursing has to find creative When Germany, and the city of and innovative strategies to move into Berlin in particular, was divided after the future. The school continues to be one of the largest educational institutions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe. It warrants serious strategic planning and support to move boldly into the future while maintaining Christian nursing education of the highest caliber.

Malamulo College of Health Sciences Iris Mamier and Bibiane Niemann at nursing school in Berlin. Another institution with a long history of service and education is WWII, the relationship between the two Malamulo College of Health Sciences institutions ended abruptly. Waldfriede located in the southern region of Hospital School of Nursing continued Malawi. Malamulo Adventist Hospital to be a place to obtain a state-approved started as a mission station in 1902 and Christian nursing education for young a small dispensary in 1908. Malawi’s people from German speaking parts of health indicators are among the worst Europe—mainly Germany, Switzerland in the world with life expectancy of 44 and Austria. Today, with the reunification years at birth. Although the Ministry of of Germany in 1989, the school is Health and Population in the country again located not only in the capitol of and the Christian Health Association of Germany but in the heart of Europe. The Malawi, with which Malamulo Hospital hospital has an excellent reputation for its is affiliated, strive to serve the health high standard of care. In a recent survey on patient satisfaction with care received, Waldfriede ranked second in the city of Berlin and sixth in all of Germany. This reflects well on the nursing staff and on the training provided by the School of Nursing. Today the school enrolls a total of 65 students across three years of nursing education. In spite of its strong heritage as a school for Adventist young people and others who appreciate a Christian nursing education, the school currently faces changes that are taking place in the field of nursing education and academia Catherine is a nurse at Malamulo Hospital across Europe. Waldfriede Hospital

10 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) a hospital in honor of his mother’s restored health. His mother had been seriously ill and her husband promised to build a hospital for women if she would recover. She recovered but her husband died three years later before fulfilling this promise. This promise was passed on to his son, Sree Rajah, to accomplish, which he did with help from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The main entrance to the Malamulo Hospital, Malawi, Dr. T. R. Flaiz had visited the Africa Rajah when Ingathering in 1921. The needs of the population, their efforts are Rajah recalled his father’s solemn vow not adequate because of the enormity to Dr. Flaiz at that time and the doctor of health problems and the shortage of doctors, clinical officers and nurses. The hospital started training Medical Assistants in 1938, and Enrolled Nurses and Midwives in 1953. Until recently, all educational programs at Malamulo were operated by the hospital. In 2002 the college developed its own governing board and offered certificates and diplomas under its own name. In Indian nurses smile during a lunch break 2006 Malamulo Hospital and College of Health Sciences became a member of recognized the man’s desire and need to Adventist Health International. Another fulfill his father’s promise. In late 1923 link that will boost its academic function Nuzvid was a village in an area of thick is an affiliation with the University of tropical forests known to be dangerous East Africa Baraton starting in 2008 or because of the wild animals, including 2009, through which it will offer Bachelor tigers. Nevertheless, Giffard Memorial of Science degrees.

Nuzvid College of Nursing Another SDA school of nursing with a long and illustrious history is the one affiliated with Giffard Memorial Hospital, Nuzvid, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It began with a promise. Sree Rajah Sobhanadri Apparao, Zamindar, a devout Hindu of Telaprole had promised his father he would build Front entrance to Giffard Memorial Hospital in India

AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) • 11 professional nurses to provide wholistic care to the sick and promoting the health and wellness of people in their community remains.

Missionary Nurses From the earliest graduates of SDA schools of nursing to the present, commitment to bring healthcare and the love of God to those in desperate Dedicating nursing students in Delhi, India need has been evident in the dedicated Hospital opened in 1925 with 21 beds, service of missionary nurses. Ferdinand and the training of nurses began in and Ana Stahl, 1903 graduates of 1926. the Battle Creek Sanitarium Training Through the years faithful missionary School for Missionary Nurses, who nurses and physicians worked tirelessly in provided healthcare and education to tropical heat to care for patients. Many the mountain people of Peru for many missionary nurses and nurse educators decades, are outstanding examples of served at Giffard Memorial Hospital and many graduates became missionary nurses to other parts of India. From 2004 to 2007, Adventist Health International supported the operation and management of the hospital and educational programs including the School of Nursing. Starting in mid-year 2007, the hospital came under the management of METAS Hospital Trust Association of Seventh- day Adventists which is based in Surat, Shown above are Wendy Guptill’s home and clinic in the Gujarat state. Philippines. (See photo on page one of Wendy at work at Over the eighty years since it was her clinic.) founded, the College of Nursing has responded to the educational needs of this commitment. The missionary nurse young women and men in that area. featured below is evidence that the same In 2007 it again responds to current spirit of service continues today: and future trends as, under METAS For four years, Wendy Guptill, a leadership, it develops in a new direction graduate of the Bachelor of Science of bachelor’s level education for nurses. program in nursing at Southern Challenges of maintaining accreditation Adventist University, has been providing and the freedom to screen and select primary healthcare to the people in a students to enroll in the program remote mountain area on the island of continue, but their mission of educating See Nurses on page 19

12 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) Directory of SDA Schools of Nursing Vocational, Enrolled Nurse: Costa Rica—Central American Adventist Univer- Kenya—Kendu Adventist Hospital School of sity Nursing Ghana— Malawi—Malamulo Hospital College of Medical India—Bangalore College of Nursing, Nuzvid Sciences College of Nursing Uganda—Ishaka Adventist Hospital Nursing —Indonesian Adventist University, Education Program Mount , Surya Nusantara Adven- Zambia—Mwami Adventist Hospital School of tist College Nursing Jamaica—Northern Caribbean University —Saniku Gakuin Vocational, Technical Nurse: Kenya—University of Eastern Africa Baraton Brazil—Manaus Adventist Hospital, Silvestre — Adventist Hospital —, Montemorelos University Diploma RN Programs: Nigeria— Botswana—Kanye SDA College of Nursing Papua New Guinea—Pacific Adventist University Croatia—Adriatic Union College Peru—Peruvian Union University Germany—Waldfriede Hospital School of Nursing Philippines—Adventist University of the Philip- Haiti—Haitian Adventist University pines, Central Philippines Adventist College, India—Ranchi Adventist Hospital School of Nurs- Manila Adventist Medical Center and Colleges, ing, Surat Hospital Trust Association of SDA Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital College of Indonesia—Indonesian Adventist University Medical Arts, Mountain View College, Northern Lesotho—Maluti Adventist Hospital Luzon Adventist College Malaysia—Penang Adventist College of Nursing Puerto Rico—Antillian Adventist University Nigeria—SDA Hospital Ile-Ife School of Nursing Thailand—Mission College Pakistan—Karachi Adventist Hospital School of Trinidad—University of Southern Caribbean Nursing United States of America—Andrews University, Romania—Romanian Adventist College of Health , Columbia Union College, Solomon Islands—Atoifi Adventist Hospital Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences, School of Nursing of Medical Arts, Loma Linda — University, Oakwood College, Pacific Union Col- lege, Southern Adventist University, Southwestern Diploma Midwifery Programs: Adventist University, Union College, Walla Walla India—Nuzvid College of Nursing, Ranchi Adven- University tist Hospital School of Nursing, Surat Hospital Trust Association of SDA School of Nursing Masters Degree: Australia—Avondale College Associate Degree: Kenya—University of Eastern Africa Baraton Japan­­— Korea—Sahmyook University Korea—Sahmyook Nursing and Health College Peru—Peruvian Union University United States of America—Atlantic Union Col- Philippines—Adventist University of the Philip- lege, Florida Hospital College of Health Sciences, pines Kettering College of Medical Arts, Oakwood United States of America—Andrews Univer- College, , Southern Adventist sity, Loma Linda University, Southern Adventist University, Southwestern Adventist University University

Bachelor’s Degree: Doctoral Degree: Argentina—River Plate University United States of America—Loma Linda University Australia—Avondale College Bolivia—Bolivia Adventist University New programs being developed (RN Brazil—Brazil Adventist University diploma): Cameroon—Adventist University Cosendai Africa—Gimbie Hospital School of Nursing Chile—Chile Adventist University China—Hong Kong Adventist College

AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) • 13 International Impact of AIMS by P. William Dysinger, MD

od be praised for the increasing The latter point was brought home international interests of to me a few years ago when I was Gfaculty and students at Loma conducting health evangelism training Linda University. This is evident in the in Russia. An Adventist physician from increasing SIMS activities, in the large central Siberia attended my training and number of deferred mission appointees, expressed great appreciation. Because and in the successful efforts through of his fluency in English, he had assisted Adventist Health International. AIMS several American evangelists in their does well to capitalize on this interest. efforts in Russia, but had never received With this good news comes, any assistance or encouragement to however, some cautions: conduct any efforts on his own. It was a a) Adventist health professionals great satisfaction for him to learn how he (AHPs) at Loma Linda University are could work in community health efforts only a small percentage of the large for his own people. number of AHPs around the world— Another important problem is the estimated in 1997 to number more than support for Adventist medical students 81,000. studying in secular universities. This b) The resources available to was impressed on me at a time while Loma Linda AHPs are significant when serving in a Ministry of Health (MOH) compared to those available to the large of an African country as a Loma Linda numbers of AHPs elsewhere in the University contract advisor to the world. government. c) The influence of short term A young man walked into my office healthcare personnel from the USA is in the MOH and introduced himself as small when compared with the potential a medical intern who would like to do influence of the larger dedicated number his social work in an Adventist mission of AHPs who live and work in their own hospital. I explained that I was not culture. a mission employee and was not in a d) The highest and best efforts position to employ him. However, I foreigners can make may not be only did get his story. He was the son of an the service they provide internationally, Adventist pastor and had been given the but the inspiration, education and high honor of being accepted into the encouragement they can give to the government medical school. Because local, resident AHPs in their spiritual and of his desire to become a physician, he healthcare efforts where they live and accepted the medical school appointment work. despite its requirement to attend classes

14 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) and exams on Sabbath. He expressed have an interest in them and their welfare. that he felt there was no one in the Updating the AIMS website and keeping church who could understand or help it oriented to the needs of the AHPs of him in his position. He had no concept the world is another easy step to make. of true medical missionary work or any I urge AIMS to accept the challenge real knowledge of the church and its of seeking to have influence with the medical mission organization. Adventist Health professionals now My wife and I invited him to our resident around the world. Not all will be home where we had many prayer and receptive, but most AIMS members might study sessions, and we introduced him be pleasantly surprised to know how to the book Ministry of Healing. It was many health professionals are just waiting wonderful to see God’s spirit work on his to do their part in helping to finish God’s heart and see him undergo a real spiritual work on earth. We all need the reminder rebirth. He ultimately received an that “soon there will be no work done in assignment to complete his required social ministerial lines but medical missionary service time at the Adventist Mission work.” (CH 533) Through AIMS let’s Hospital. He became a strong spiritual help encourage and organize this last leader, and conducted daily worship great lay effort in health evangelism and for the hospital workers. Ultimately, medical missionary work. he accepted a regular appointment as a denominational employee and served as the Union Health Director. How many other young people with Adventist Editor’s Response: backgrounds are just waiting for a little The leadership of AIMS supports in professional and spiritual encouragement principle what Dr. Dysinger proposes and to become strong workers for God? In recognizes its worldwide mission. Creating such many places they have no one to look to a database of scattered individuals who are not as a role model or to turn to for direction known may be difficult unless they contact us, or or assistance. our members bring their names to our attention. While I encourage the international But improving the AIMS website as a worldwide efforts at Loma Linda University, I feel method of communication with possible blogging we should not forget the large number capability is being developed. Networking with of AHPs around the world. Though Adventist Health International (AHI), and it may seem an impossible task to Students for International Mission Service contact or remain in contact with these (SIMS), known as the Triad, was created to individuals, our challenge in AIMS could function in a coordinated, non-duplicative manner be to cultivate new and better methods to meet such needs. We appreciate and applaud of communication. Making Ministry of Dr. Dysinger’s personal efforts and views at Healing available to any Adventist health meeting the one-on-one needs as they came to him student or health professional who during his time of international service. requests it would have an enormous impact in showing that someone does

AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) • 15 AIMS LIFE MEMBERS (Founder’s Life category to close March 3, 2008. See page 7.) As of November 15, 2007, AIMS has 196 Life Members

Founder’s Life Members: † George J. Falbisaner, MD Eleanor R. Fanselau, MD Donald Eugene Adams, MD Harold A. Fanselau, MD Edward C. Allred, MD Richard A. Flaiz, MD Donald K. Ashley, MD Geir P. Frivold, MD Ira E. Bailie, MD Gary K. Frykman, MD Marion C. Barnard II, MD David K. Fukuda, MD Jo Ellen Barnard, MD Glenn D. Garbutt, MD † Marion C. Barnard, MD Martha June Gardner, MD Carl L. Bauer, MD Brendon L. Gelford, MD † Geneva K. Beatty, MD † Gerald J. Gelford, MD B. Lyn Behrens, MBBS Darrell E. Genstler, MD Melvin E. Beltz, MD Art Giebel, MD George N. Benson, MD Hervey W. Gimbel, MD Roy V. Berglund, MD Howard V. Gimbel, MD Paulos Berhanu, MD Randy H. Gleason, MD Craig L. Best, MD † Audrey R. Glover, MD Frederick M. Bischoff, MD Antoinette A. Gomes, MD Francis Rollin Bland, MD Albert Gordon Goude, MD Ingrid K. Blomquist, MD Robert E. Goyne, MD Robert H. Bossert, MD A.R. Grover † Walter A. Bozak, MD William D. Gruzensky, MD Allen L. Brandt, MD Richard S. Guthrie, MD Jerome L. Bray, MD Herald A. Habenicht, MD Burton A. Briggs, MD Gilbert Gordon Hadley, MD Urs M. Bryner, MD Ronald A. Hagen, MD Elmer J. Bryson, MD Allan R. Handysides, MD DeWayne F. Butcher, MD Gary Herschel Harding, MD Glenn W. Bylsma, MD Ralph D. Harris, MD Mark D. Carlson, MD Lewis H. Hart, MD Jonathan Arthur Cheek, MD Richard H. Hart, MD George P. Cheng, MD Dannielle O. Harwood, MD Thorvald W. Christiansen, MD John Michael Hay, MD Wen H. Chuan, MD Harvey E. Heidinger, MD † Everett F. Coleman, MD Leo Herber, MD † William A. Craig, MD Marilyn Joyce Herber, MD Thuan T. Dang, MD Raymond Herber, MD Jerry A. Davidson, MD † Armando C. Hernandez, MD † Delbert R. Dick, MD Steven W. Hildebrand, MD Herbert L. Domke, MD Steven E. Hodgkin, MD Richard D. Dunbar, MD † Gustave H. Hoehn, MD † Gerhardt L. Dybdahl, MD Robert E. Hopkins, MD P. William Dysinger, MD Russell E. Hoxie, Jr., MD John Elloway, MD Russell E. Hoxie, MD

16 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) † E. Isabel Low Ing, MD William E. Rippey, MD Carl Jansen, MD Antonio E. Robles, MD Claran H. Jesse, MD † Ronald E. Rothe, MD † James A. Jetton, Sr., MD Richard L. Rouhe, MD † Lawrence E.C. Joers, MD Ralph W. Royer, MD † Eleanor S. Johnson, MD Emmanuel Rudatsikira, MD Milton Johnson, Jr., MD Charles A. Russell, MD Oliver Larry Johnston, MD Elmar P. Sakala, MD Hans B. Juneby Donald W.E. Schafer, MD Elton R. Kerr, MD Marlowe H. Schaffner, MD Thomas R. Knutson, MD Judith M. Schnepper, MD Sandra L. Kramer-Geli, MD Eloy E. Schulz, MD Edwin H. Krick, MD Weldon D. Schumacher, MD Grace N. Kumamoto, MD Ronald R. Scott, MD Morley R. Kutzner, MD † Donald R. Shasky, MD Charles Rex LaGrange, MD Robert V. Shearer, MD Raymond L. Larsen, MD Sondra E. Shields, MD Francis Y. Lau, MD Bernard M. Shucavage, MD † Ewald R. Lonser, MD Stephen J. Skahen, MD William L. Lubke, MD Randell S. Skau, MD Vernon C. Luthas, MD † Gordon D. Skeoch, MD M.C. Theodore Mackett, MD J. Randal Sloop, MD Walter Markus Maier, MD † Carrol S. Small, MD Robert L. Marsh, MD David G. Small, MD James D. Matiko, MD Donald A. Smith, MD Reuben Matiko, MD Wayne E. Smith, MD Raymond L. Mayor, MD Robert S. Sochor, MD Wilson C. McArthur, MD Robert N. Spady, MD William H. McGhee, MD, Ed.D John D. Sproed, MD James R. McKinney, MD Donald L. Stilson, MD Lester Medford, MD Mildred A.R. Stilson, MD Robert E. Morris, MD † Howard O. Stocker, MD † Chanceford A. Mounce, MD † Kennard O. Stoll, MD Sherman A. Nagel, Jr., MD T. Martin Strahan, MD Neil A. Nedley, MD William C. Swatek, MD Harry C. Nelson III, MD Gregory M. Taylor, MD Wallace Y. Nishikawa, MD W. Holmes Taylor, MD † Frances Patience Noecker, MD Larry L. Thomas, MD † Kay K. Ota, MD Gordon W. Thompson, MD David J. Parsons, MD Eric Tsao, MD Arnold L. Petersen II, MD Rudolph William Varesko, MD Chester Pflugrad, MD Edgar O. Vyhmeister, MD † Oliver J. Pogue, MD † Theodore E. Wade, MD Thaine B. Price, MD William Wagner, MD Leonard E. Ranasinghe, MD † Richard T. Walden, MD Nicholas E. Reiber, MD Michael H. Walter, MD † Albert H. Reiswig, MD Randall W. Waring, MD Robert A. Reiswig, MD James M. Whitlock, MD Elwyn L. Rexinger, MD George J. Wiesseman, MD Sergio R. Riffel, MD See Life on page 18

AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) • 17 Reflections of Honduras by Deborah Kronstad, LLU School of Medicine Class of 2007

In March I served as a medical the long mountainous trek by foot to missionary to a community in Erandique, our clinic. She arrived about 8:00 a.m. Honduras. Erandique has limited access and then stood in line for another three to doctors, so hundreds of people came or four hours. After the visit she had to from all over the region to see us. Our turn around and make the long trek back group held 10 days of clinic and saw home by foot—and she was suffering about 2000 patients in total. from arthritis! Despite her pain, she still Because there were so many people, had a beautiful smile on her face and both medical students in the group gave me the most heartfelt hug after our were granted quite a bit of autonomy in visit as she expressed over and over how diagnosing and treating patients. We were grateful she was that we had come. I was “on our own” in taking patient histories, so humbled by my interaction with this performing pertinent physical exams, woman, and I felt this emotion again and and making diagnostic and treatment again with each patient. decisions based on our findings—the The most gratifying portion of the true test of our education in action. This trip was finding out that about 250 people hands-on experience was invaluable and had made decisions for Christ through certainly served to bolster my confidence the course of our two weeks there. The and sense of responsibility as a medical spiritual transformation and healing that practitioner! those people received would never run One thing that stood out to me was out! It was amazing to be part of a team the hard life of the Honduran people. that touched this many people’s lives in I remember one 77-year-old man who such a meaningful way. I am so grateful was suffering from back and shoulder for this incredible opportunity and I pain, but still worked the fields out of hope it is just the first of many to come. necessity. One 78-year-old woman had Thank you AIMS for supporting me in left her home at 1:00 a.m. and started this amazing ministry endeavor!

Life (Continued from page 10) Finis E. Wiggins, Jr., MD Daniel W. Young, MD Rodney E. Willard, MD Thomas J. Zirkle, MD Glenn L. Wiltse, MD Everet W. Witzel, MD Regional Life Members: Annie L. Wong, MD Judy M. Wong, MD Jack Bennett, MD † Bryce J. Young, MD Clifford Walters, MD

18 • AIMS JOURNAL • 2007 (Vol. 28, No. 4) Nurses (Continued from page 12) Palawan in the southern Philippines. As a volunteer with Adventist Frontier Mission, and the only formally prepared health professional in the area, she The AIMS Journal is published by the Association of International Medical Services, is called upon to do a wide range of an organization of Seventh-day Adventist healthcare services. In spite of frequent physicians/health professionals, and friends, dedicated to the promotion of Adventist bouts of malaria herself, she manages international health efforts. Bulk rate postage the healthcare needs of the people for paid San Bernardino, California. Copyright November, 2007, by the Association of everything from childbirth to emergency International Medical Services, Loma Linda, trauma of various types. Until recently, CA 92354, USA. Current circulation: 1,600. the only access to the clinic area on the Website: www.aims-health.net. mountain was on foot, approximately Executive Officers President: Jack Bennett, MD four hours of steep climbing. In August President-Elect: 2007, a helicopter and missionary pilot Secretary: George Wiesseman, MD Treasurer: Larry Thomas, MD were added to the project. Now patients, Project Director: James M. Crawford, MD for whom care is urgent, do not have Thomas J. Zirkle, MD Eloy E. Schultz, MD to hike miles to get the care they need, Webmaster: Rodney Willard, MD and the missionaries are spared hiking Past President: Clifford A. Walters, MD to emergency cases in the villages, as Executive Director: Dennis E. Park well as up and down the mountain for Publication Editor: Don A. Roth supplies. In her young life, Wendy has Associate Editor: Dennis E. Park provided frontline healthcare at a clinic Copy and Layout Editor: Janelle Michaelis in Micronesia, in a remote village in Contributing Editors the mountains of Nepal, and now in Jorge Pamplona-Rogers, MD, Spain Zildomar Deucher, MD, Brazil the mountains of Palawan. Dedicated Nephtali Valles Castillo, MD, Mexico missionary service is still alive. Patrick Guenin, MD, France Ronald Noltze, MD, Germany Sam Daniyan, MD, Nigeria Acknowledgements: Ricardo G. Salamante, DrHSc, MPH and Pastor Bien V. Tejano, Philippines The author acknowledges the following Milca Schmidt, Venezuela contributors to this article: Adrian Bocaneanu, Romania R.J. Butler, Australia Iris Mamier and Bibiane Niemann— Dr. Edmil D. Marinov, Bulgaria Waldfriede Hospital School of Nursing, Dr. Jairo Castaneda, Coloumbia Bernardo Meza, MD, Honduras Gail Schatzsneider—Nuzvid College of Graceila Quispe, Argentina Nursing Ivan Kasminin, MD, Russia Francis Panulo—Malamulo College of Antonia Solares, MD, Guatemala Health Sciences Valerie Nusantara—Loma Linda University for the list of SDA Schools of AIMS operates in conjunction with the Alumni Association, School of Medicine of Loma Linda Nursing University, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA.

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