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Dr. James Appel has for thirteen years been serving as a physician in African hospitals developed through the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with his wife and children, Dr. Appel has experienced deepened faith as well as heartbreaking loss during these years. With great honesty Dr. Appel shares his wrestling with faith and grief and hope for the future.

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Published early in 2016, "When Breath Becomes Air" instantly became a best seller. Dr. Paul Kalanithi was at the point of completing his training to become a neurosurgeon when suddenly he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Paul’s moving memoir is his story of becoming a patient as he wrestled with suffering and loss, as well as love and hope. Paul’s wife, Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, completed his memoir after Paul died in 2015. ADU was fortunate to secure a speaking engagement by Lucy Kalanithi on December 8, 2016, in which she speaks openly about her husband, their relationship, and what sustained them at the end of his life. You will enjoy learning from their journey and come away with a better understanding of how life changing medical diagnoses changes relationships with others, with self and with God. You will be challenged to consider how suffering and love are related. This story and what you will learn from hearing from Dr. Lucy Kalanithi will be life changing for you and the way you care for others.

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Dr. Joel Hunter is Pastor of Northland, A Church Distributed, in Central Florida with worshipping communities around the world. As an evangelical pastor who addresses controversial issues yet is seen as “always the same guy.” How does this influential pastor, spiritual advisor to a U.S. President, sustain his personal and professional integrity? Drawing insight from Christian scripture, microbiology, and business leaders, Dr. Hunter engages the theme of Integrity from all sides.

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Dr. Rita Charon, who holds both the MD degree as well as PhD in English, speaks from the perspective of narrative medicine as she explores the topic of Integrity. From sources as diverse as Thomas Merton, Gandhi, Dorothy Day, and Paul Cezanne, Dr. Charon explores how caregivers can connect with patients through the patient’s story, in the practices of attending and listening.

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In a powerful story of love and courage in the midst of terrible violence, Carl Wilkens and his wife Teresa bear witness to the history of genocide in Rwanda in the early 1990s. Wilkens weaves footage from a documentary of their experience with his account of the family’s development and relief work in Rwanda prior to the genocide, and relief work after. Wilkens was the sole American who remained in the country during the violence.

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Two speakers share lived experiences from the Holocaust, Dr. Fogelman, a psychologist and daughter of a Jewish baker protected by a Russian, and Rabbi Goldstein who survived more than two years in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Dr. Fogelman’s personal search and professional journey has explored The Rescuers, “the Righteous Among the Nations,” non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews. Rabbi Goldstein recalls historical events of the Holocaust through his own and his family’s experience; both are gripping accounts.

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Author Rebecca Skloot shares her passion for science and for writing in the story of how she came to write The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. From an early curiosity about the woman behind the HeLa cells that have enabled vast medical advances, Ms. Skloot tells of her journey of developing relationships with the Lacks family, gaining their trust, and telling their story, as she wrestles with questions of “people being used in science.”

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Dr. Angela Duckworth is a professor and researcher in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. She asks what makes the different between having talent and actually succeeding? Across fields of education, the military, sales, sports, and music, Dr. Duckworth identifies the quality of “grit,” made up of perseverance and passion. What makes some achieve, while others equally talented, do not? Dr. Duckworth is the author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.

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David Lyons shares his story of having been a body builder with a successful business in television, when he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Through his faith and several significant relationships, David built resilience to battle this progressive disease and went on to be awarded “Most Influential Body Builder” in Florida.

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Dr. Deogratias Niyizonkiza’s dramatic story of survival of two genocides in the 1990s was featured in Tracy Kidder’s book Strength in What Remains. “Deo” shares his life experience in Burundi and Rwanda, as well as his work in health care in rural Burundi through Village Health Works; his is a lived example of Resilience.