AMEN Northwest Conference | Health Ministries

AMEN Northwest Conference 2023

Optimizing Mental Health:

A Biblical Perspective

March 10-12, 2023

The keynote speaker for this event was Dr. Daniel Binus. Dr. Binus is a psychiatrist currently serving as clinical director of Beautiful Minds Medical. The devotional speaker is Dr. Tim Riesenberger, an emergency room physician, who is passionate about Jesus and sharing God’s Word with others. Dr. Eric Shadle and Cynthia Stark complete our speaker roster for this conference. Dr. Shadle is a physician and pastor who currently serves as Group Vice President of Mission Integration at Centura Health. Cynthia is Director of Clinical Mission Integration at Centura Health. They will be focusing their presentations on spiritual care. 

Friday sessions

"An Overview of Wholistic Interventions for Anxiety and Depression" — Dr. Daniel Binus

"Why Spiritual Care is Integral to Caring" — Dr. Eric Shadle & Cynthia D Stark

"Keys to Protecting and Optimizing Frontal Lobe Function" — Dr. Daniel Binus

"A New Heart" — Dr. Tim Riesenberger

"The Art of Listening" — Dr. Eric Shadle

Saturday sessions

"The Truth Transforms the World" — Dr. Tim Riesenberger

"Where is God When I Suffer?" — Dr. Tim Riesenberger

"What Spiritual Care Looks Like" — Dr. Eric Shadle & Cynthia D Stark

Sunday sessions

"The Secret to Happiness" — Dr. Tim Riesenberger

"How to Provide Spiritual Care" — Dr. Eric Shadle & Cynthia D. Stark

"Secrets of Neuroplasticity" — Dr. Daniel Binus

Previous AMEN Northwest Conferences

> AMEN Northwest 2019 Conference

> AMEN Northwest 2021 Conference

Featuring

Daniel Binus, MD

Daniel Binus, MD, believes in whole-person care. His goal is to understand and address the emotional, physical, and spiritual factors that influence each patient’s well being.

Dr. Binus serves as clinical director of Beautiful Minds Medical. He provides outpatient psychiatry and oversees the Intensive Outpatient Program. He’s also on the medical staff at Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital, and a clinical instructor for Loma Linda University.

Dr. Binus completed his medical training and psychiatry residency at Loma Linda University, where he became fascinated by the beauty of the mind. Dr. Binus spent many hours studying the emotional, physical, spiritual, and biological factors that influence mental health. This study made him passionate about treating the cause of mental illness, and not just masking the symptoms.

Dr. Binus completed a master’s degree in public health education and enjoys conducting lectures and workshops on depression and other mental health topics. He also developed a mental health curriculum for the HIV/AIDS orphans of sub-Saharan Africa, which is currently being implemented in the country of Lesotho. Dr. Binus believes that proper mental-health education can greatly improve the lives of people and communities.

Eric W. Shadle, MD

Eric W. Shadle, MD, is on a mission to live life with compassion, curiosity, and courage. He is a Christ-follower, husband, father, father-in-law, grandfather, physician, pastor, mentor, and healthcare executive. He loves to spend time with his family, read, connect with people, travel, ride his bicycle, hike, and kayak.

After practicing medicine for more than 20 years and serving as a head pastor of a church for nearly 11 years, Dr. Shadle was hired by the South Denver Hospitals of Centura Health in February 2015 to help bring CREATION Life principles to patients, associates, and community. In 2018 he transitioned to group vice president of mission integration and in 2021 his role expanded to all 19 Centura hospitals responsible for the spiritual care of patients, their families, associates, and community.

In his current role, he has implemented AdventHealth’s spiritual wholeness screening of all outpatients. This has been a highly successful initiative that has not only benefited patients, but also physicians, nurses, practice managers, and medical assistants.

Cynthia D. Stark

Cynthia D. Stark is on a mission to love and encourage people to live a whole and healthy life. She is a Christ-follower, devoted wife to her high school sweetheart, mother to four amazing kiddos, sister, friend, aunt, and healthcare executive. She loves creating meaningful moments with her family and friends; playing games, working out at Orange Theory, camping, traveling, cooking and everything music! 

Cynthia began working in healthcare at Centura Health 10 years ago. During that time, she oversaw the occupational medicine division, streamlining operations and building relationships with key employers in the community. In 2020, she moved into a Director of Clinical Mission Integration. Her current role includes overseeing the mission and ministry program in over a hundred Centura outpatient facilities and ministering to hundreds of Centura employees. 

Cynthia is passionate about the work she is doing in partnership with AdventHealth to implement the Spiritual Wholeness screening program throughout Centura’s community. This program seeks to assess the presence of love, joy, and peace in a patient’s life; all of which are robust indicators of a patient’s overall health and well-being. Cynthia enjoys collaborating with providers as they work to enrich their scope of patient care by addressing not only physical and mental health, but spiritual as well.

Tim Riesenberger, MD, MPH

Tim Riesenberger MD, MPH, is a board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician. He received his medical degree from Loma Linda University, holds a Master's of Public Health in Preventive Medicine from the University of Montemorelos, and graduated from Residency in Emergency Medicine from Stanford University. Dr. Tim Riesenberger is an enthusiastic proponent of preventive medicine. He has been to dozens of countries as a speaker and health practitioner. He is passionate about his Saviour and sharing God’s Word with those who’ve never heard it.