Team Board Member: Dr. Omar Hamada

Really grateful to introduce one of our Team Board Members, Dr. Omar Hamada. Dr. Hamada is an extreme mover and shaker; has great insight on Arab culture and is accomplished in so many different ways. I'm excited to see what the future holds for this Mission!

Omar Hamada’s passion is advancing the Kingdom of Christ through discipleship and evangelism in all that he does.  Omar’s life is defined by the “5 Ms” – Marriage, Medicine, Military, Ministry, and Music.

Marriage - Omar is married to Dr. Tara Newton Hamada of Shelbyville, TN, who is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and works at Mercy Children’s Clinic in Franklin, TN.  They have 4 children – Gabriella (12), Annelise (9), Nicholas (7), and Josiah (3).  They live in Brentwood, Tennessee and are active members of Fellowship Bible Church.

Medicine – Omar is Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology and in Family & Sports Medicine.  He is also trained in Aerospace/High Altitude, Deep Sea/Hyperbaric, and Tropical Medicine.  He was previously Director of Predoctoral Affairs at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, the Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at StoneCrest Medical Center, and President and CEO of Cedar Medical Group.  He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, an Emergency Room Physician, maintains a private “concierge” medical practice (Brentwood Concierge Medicine and Fitness), and consults for various organizations.  He recently completed an MBA at Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Management.  He is the Chief Medical Officer of Advon Healthcare (www.advonhealth.com) and the Medical Division President and Chairman of the Board for HumaniTV (www.humani.tv).

Military – Omar is a 14-year combat veteran of the United States Army.  Ten of those years were in the United States Army’s Special Forces as a paratrooper, diver, and Battalion Flight Surgeon and Diving Medical Officer of the 1/20^th Special Forces Group, (Airborne).  He is the recipient of many awards and decorations including the Bronze Star Medal and the Combat Medical Badge for actions in combat.  Omar is an accomplished outdoorsman and martial artist (Tae Kwon Do, HapKiDo, Judo).  He is the Principal of S3 – Security and Survival Solutions.   

Ministry – After graduating from Columbia Biblical Seminary (CBS) in South Carolina in 1988, Omar was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister.  He is also a graduate of Leighton Ford’s 2-year Arrow Leadership Program, and is currently completing a Masters of Theology at Columbia.  He is a delegate of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and over a span of 20 years, has worked closely with ministries such as OM, YWAM, Campus Crusade, the Zwemer Institute, and the US Center for World Mission in training Western believers as to the needs and methods of Muslim Evangelization.  Dr. Leighton Ford and the late Dr. Adrian Rogers were his mentors.  He is authoring two books under contract – “Warrior Faith: Spiritual Applications of Lessons Learned in Combat” and “a certain hope…:Living Victoriously in the Midst of Adversity”, and editing for republication “The Temperament and Character of the Arabs” by Sania Hamady, PhD. 

Music – Omar is a classically trained spinto tenor in the style of Mario Lanza.  He has studied operatic vocal performance in Memphis, New York, and Vienna, has had offers from the Julliard School and the New York Metropolitan Opera Company, and has performed for over 1 million people worldwide.  He also plays jazz and classical trumpet and is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.