Dr. David Stevens, author of Jesus, MD, serves as Executive Director of the Christian Medical Association, a national organization of Christian doctors that seeks to change hearts in healthcare. Founded in 1931, CMA promotes positions and addresses policies on health care issues; conducts overseas and domestic mission projects; coordinates a network of Christian doctors for fellowship and professional growth; sponsors student ministries in medical and dental schools; distributes educational and inspirational resources; holds marriage and family conferences; provides missionary doctors with continuing education resources; and conducts academic exchange programs overseas.

At CMA, Dr. Stevens has helped develop an evangelism training program that teaches thousands of doctors and others how to share their faith in a healthcare setting. He has also helped launch a nationwide network of community-based ministries that provide on-site discipleship, fellowship and outreach opportunities for local doctors and medical and dental students.

As a leading spokesman for Christian doctors, Dr. Stevens has conducted hundreds of media interviews, including NBC's Today Show, NBC Nightly News, BBC-World Television, Newsweek, JAMA, USA Today, CNN Sunday Morning, CNN News Site and National Public Radio. He has also appeared on Focus on the Family, FOX Family Channel, PAX-Television, Tech TV, The Odyssey Channel, America's Health Network and many other national outlets. Prior to becoming a Zondervan author, he wrote a regular health column for the Promise Keepers' New Man magazine and served on the editorial board of Christian Single magazine.

Dr. Stevens is also heard as host of the CMA Healthwise Public Service Announcements, which address general health and bioethical issues and currently air on over six hundred Christian radio stations nationwide. CMA members hear him as the host of the popular Christian Doctor’s Digest audio magazine, which has featured national leaders such as Dr. James Dobson, Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. C. Everett Koop.

Prior to his service with CMA, Dr. Stevens served as director of World Medical Mission. In Somalia, Dr. Stevens led an emergency medical mission that treated 45,000 suffering Somalis in the midst of war. In the Sudan, medical teams under his leadership treated over 25,000 villagers to stop the spread of an epidemic. Dr. Stevens has seen firsthand how meeting the physical needs of patients provides opportunities to meet their spiritual needs—by introducing them to God’s love through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

From 1985 to 1991, Dr. Stevens served as executive officer and medical superintendent of Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya—one of the outstanding missions. At Tenwek, he directed a $4 million development plan, secured the installation of an $850,000 hydroelectric plant, oversaw the start of a nursing school and doubled the size of the hospital. The community health care and development programs he designed at Tenwek are currently reaching over 200,000 Kenyans and serve as an example of what medical outreach in the developing world can accomplish.

Dr. Stevens’ experiences provide rich illustrations for inspirational and educational presentations at seminars, conferences, and churches. His topics include missions and evangelism, spiritual commitment and growth, bioethics, and other medically and spiritually related subjects. He currently serves as a Fellow of the Biotechnology Policy Council of the Wilberforce Forum.

Dr. Stevens holds degrees from Asbury College and the University of Louisville School of Medicine and is board certified in family practice. He earned a master’s degree in bioethics from Trinity International University in 2002 and serves on the boards of GO International and Asbury College. He has regularly taught at the Christian Medical & Dental Associations' educational seminars for missionary physicians and dentists in Kenya, Malaysia, and other forums. Dr. Stevens and his wife, Jody, have a son, Jason, and two daughters, Jessica and Stacy.