Dr. Webb was installed at Trinity in January 2006 as Missionary-at-Large.  He is intensely interested in medical missions and  

 has been to Guatemala twice.  Another Guatemala trip is planned in August 2006.  A trip is also planned with Rev. Harrison of

 LWR-HC to Nairobi in October 2006.

  Dr. Webb  was trained in emergency medicine at Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids and has worked at emergency rooms in   Grand Rapids, Holland, Muskegon, Flint, Saginaw, Owosso and Traverse City, Michigan and in Las Vegas, Nevada.   He recently retired from Munson Medical Center where he was one of five physicians at Munson Urgent Care

He worked for ERDA (the Energy Research and Development Administration) at the Nevada nuclear test site, near Las Vegas, Nevada, as an industrial physician.

He and his wife, Patricia, a nurse, ran a family practice in Owosso, Michigan from 1978 until 1996. He has delivered hundreds of babies and seen many cases of multiple traumas.  While in Owosso, he worked part time in emergency medicine at St. Mary's Medical Center in Saginaw, Michigan and briefly at Hurley Hospital in Flint, Michigan.  He founded the family practice department at the Memorial Hospital in Owosso.

He has three children: Donna, a harpist in the Ann Arbor, Michigan; Craig, chief financial officer (CFO) of Airlift Company in Lansing, Michigan; and Jenny, a zoologist and medical assistant who plans to enter nursing school.

He is an educator and holds an appointment as Clinical Instructor, Department of Family Practice, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan.  He has taught and directed Advanced Cardiac Life Support courses (from 1981 to the present) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support courses (1988 to the present) throughout Michigan and at one point worked for a group that did ACLS courses throughout the country.  He also has taught Advanced Trauma Life Support courses for the surgery department at Michigan State University.  He currently teaches at  St. Mary's Medical Center, Saginaw, Michigan, and Munson Regional EMS Education, Traverse City, Michigan.  He has been active in teaching and medical writing throughout his career.

He attended Concordia College, Ft. Wayne, Indiana and  Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois (Bachelor of Theology degree). He served St. Luke Lutheran Church (Rensselaer, IN), Trinity Lutheran Church (Goodland, IN) and Hope Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids, MI.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) from St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana, and an MD from St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.   He is board certified in emergency medicine and holds a fellowship in emergency medicine (FACEP - Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Physicians) and a fellowship in family practice (FAAFP - Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians).

He recently served on the on the Advisory Panel, Disaster Response Plan for Lutheran World Relief and Human Care in St. Louis and as chaplain for Lutherans in Medical Missions at their yearly forum in St. Louis.

Mission trips in 2007 - click here