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Dr. Wilson Bonfim MD serves as the president of the Christian Medical & Dental Association in Brazil Medicos de Cristo. At Medicos de Cristo, Dr. Bonfim has helped develop several evangelism training programs that teach hundreds of doctors and others how to share their faith in a healthcare setting.

Dr. Bonfim has conducted hundreds of media interviews. He wrote a regular health column for the some Christian newspaper and websites as well participated in the boards of directors of some missions in Brazil like Operation Mobilization and the School of Missions. Mission School of the Methodist Church in Rio de Janeiro.

Prior to his service with Medicos de Cristo, Dr. Bonfim has been serving as director of World Methodist Project Evangemed. In Brazil and South America, Dr. Bonfim led several setting’s of medical mission that treated more than 60,000 people in Brazil in the favelas ( urban shanty towns) and in some rural areas in Amazon. As part of his job, has trained several people on site for empowerment and health.

Dr Bonfim also teaches in several missions training programs about health in projects with youth with a mission and Operation Mobilization. In academics he has leading an extramural project for Bennett College with students to be included

Dr. Bonfim’s experiences provide rich illustrations for inspirational and educational presentations at seminars, conferences, and churches. His topics include missions and evangelism, spiritual growth, bioethics, and other medically and spiritually related subjects. Dr. Bonfim holds degrees from Universidade Gama Filho and is board certified in Surgery and Ultrassound. He has regularly taught at the Christian Medical & Dental Associations' educational seminars for missionary physicians and dentists in Brazil and teaches medical missions in several countries like, Russia, Korea, USA and Brazil. Dr. Bonfim and his wife, Glaucia, have two daughters, Vivian and Rachel.

Dr Bonfim also leads an experimental course and research in Amazon Groundwater Studies, that has been developed at the Bennett College to bridge the gap between extracurricular service type programs and academically-based study abroad programs. The credit hour course is been conducted during the standard semester for public health used at Unibennett, and the course includes field trips to Amazon and several places in Rio. Challenging situational factors provided motivation for applying formal course design theory during the execution of the class.Some of the students became the top ten students.

Now he is leading a motivational courses for christian youth in a dinamic ministry he created called JUMEMI.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE • Physician, Gama Filho University, 1987, Resident Hospital – Santa Casa de Misericórdia Rio de Janeiro – Toracic surgery and pulmonology. 1987 to 1989. Índia – CHE – Degree in Comprehensive health program. Bennett - extracurricular service programs and international relation programs. Assistant Professor, Public Health at the Bennett College. Assistant for international relations. Conduct several international seminars at the school. Member of Continuing medical education international – director of international development.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Air force Flight Surgeon Director for emergency patients in Air force Hospital. Director Internal Medicin Clinic – Airport emergency 1989 Member of the staff for Center of Reproduction of Rio de Janeiro – As Surgeon and Ultrassound since 1989. Former director of a Brazilian HMO – Vida Acessoria Director for Nazarene Clinic 1995. Director for international Medical Missions – Evangemed - World Methodist Evangelism since 1997 and assistant to UMVIM – United Methodist Volunteers in Missions. Senior Researcher for IPHEM – Instituto de pesquisa Heloisa Marinho.( Health and Education research) since 199 Embrapa – Centro Brasileiro de pesquisa Agro pecuaria – Center for research of food and agriculture for Brazil Rio de Janeiro.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND SERVICE

President Brazilian Christian Medical Society Member of Ultrasound society of Brazil Member board of Physicians in Rio de Janeiro, department of IT Technology research

Fields of interest

Medicine and Evangelism Missions and Anthropology Bioethics