About Us - Christian Therapist Network

Thursday 20th November 2008

In this section:

- CTN FAQ
- CTN Council
- CTN News
- Doctrinal Basis
- Council of Reference

Council of Reference:

The CTN Council of Reference is a named group of people with different interests/ skills who have agreed to provide advice for the CTN council as and when asked.

Current members of the CTN Council of Reference:

Dr Andrew Fergusson

Dr Andrew Fergusson qualified in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital in 1975. After 4 years' hospital medicine he worked for 10 years as a GP in a Christian mission practice in S E London. From 1990-99 he was General Secretary of the Christian Medical Fellowship, and now has a portfolio career at the interface of medicine and Christianity. Between 1999-2003 he was an elected member of the General Medical Council and continued doing fitness-to-practise casework until the end of 2004.

Until recently he was the Chairman of the Acorn Christian Foundation, consulting medical adviser to CARE, Head of Policy at the Centre for Bioethics and Public Policy, and Strategy Adviser to Christian Medical Fellowship. In September 2005 Dr Fergusson took up the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity in Deerfield, Illinois, USA in September 2005. He is a freelance broadcaster, speaker and writer. He continues to liaise actively with a number of British organisations and recognises that bioethics are now truly global.'

He is married to Catrin, a former anthropologist, and their two children are both students. He relaxes by reading classic English detective fiction and by supporting Millwall FC.

Steve trained as nurse in Guildford, and worked for several years in Wandsworth in community and elderly care, before working for eight years with the Christian AIDS charity, ACET in home based palliative care for adults with HIV and AIDS in London. Steve has been involved in short-term overseas mission in North Africa, and in church planting in a multi-cultural community in South London. In 2000 he became Director of MMA HealthServe, involved in mobilising health professionals into world Mission. In 2004, MMA merged with Christian Medical Fellowship and Steve became the Allied CMF Professions Secretary, with a remit to work with all health professions in mission mobilisation.

He is married to Debbi and they now live with their two children in Northwest Kent.

John and Gill Jacobs

Gill has worked as an Occupational Therapist for about 30 years - many of those in Social Services and latterly in a School specialising in work with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (Paediatrics). She also spent 3 years in the 70's as TSCF Travelling Secretary (as staff workers were then called!). Gill is a registered Intermediary with the Criminal Justice System and from time to time is called upon to assist vulnerable witnesses in court. She also has opportunities to go into a local secondary school on a regular basis to 'Listen' to pupils who are struggling with school or home life.

John is an electronics engineer currently working with an international Radio communications company which takes him all over Africa and the Middle East. He previously worked with the Medical Research Council developing innovative solutions to assist in research projects. He is an elder in his local church in Alton and enjoys sailing and kite flying.

Both John and Gill are involved with the Acorn Christian Foundation and have run courses in Christian Listening.

Dr Chris Mayers

Dr Chris Mayers is an occupational therapist, principal lecturer and researcher currently employed in the School of Professional Health Studies at York St John College. Her professional interests are person-centred practice and prioritising quality of life issues for users of our services; and also assessing and meeting spiritual needs. Has recently developed a working definition of 'spirituality' for use in practice.

Chris has much experience in working with the Therapy Students Christian Fellowship both in Dublin and the UK and is very happy to help CTN where ever she can.

Prof Carl Whitehouse

Carl Whitehouse was a general practitioner in Sussex, and then moved to Manchester in 1978 where he worked in the Department of General Practice in the Medical School. He took a particular interest in communication (both between health professional and patient and between different health professionals), the primary care team, primary care in Central and Eastern Europe and community-based education. He retired from his post as Professor of Teaching Medicine in the Community in 2003 and now enjoys life in Dorset.

He is a Reader in the Church of England, was for many years University secretary for the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) in the Northwest, and used to contribute a regular column to the CMF magazine. He is married with three children and three grandchildren