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Canadian Memorial
Chiropractic College
Following the recent sale of its long-time home on Bayview Avenue in Toronto
and the purchase of a new campus property on Leslie Street, CMCC’s Capital
Campaign Hands on the Future has heated up.
“We are entering an exciting new chapter in CMCC’s history,”
says CMCC’s President Jean Moss, D.C.. “After more than 57 years
of educating and training chiropractors, CMCC has grown into one of the most
pre-eminent institutions of its kind anywhere. Now, we are building and raising
support for our new state-of-the-art campus. We are making a new home for CMCC
that will reflect and showcase our commitment to leading-edge chiropractic education
and research.”
CMCC’s Hands on the Future campaign has attracted some of Canada’s
most influential members of the chiropractic profession to spearhead its efforts.
“We are extremely pleased with the support we have received so far,”
said Vince Sinclair, D.C., national co-chair of the campaign. “To set
the pace, the support coming from close to home is overwhelming. CMCC’s
Board of Governors, Governors’ Club, faculty, staff, members, alumni,
and even current students, are all making significant gifts.”
But it’s not just chiropractors who are showing their support. With a
$2 million gift already in hand from the Kolter Corporation, the corporate sector
is also a key stakeholder in this campaign. The National Co-chair (private sector)
is Len Goodman. As President of First Financial Corporation, Goodman has himself
already committed a significant personal gift to the campaign.
Cleveland Chiropractic College–Los Angeles
By coming together on March 10, the students, staff and faculty helped save
over 125 lives by donating 42 pints of blood. Every person that donated had
the chance to save up to three lives. Imagine that by giving up just 30 minutes
of your time, you saved three peoples’ lives by donating your blood.
According to the American Red Cross, every two seconds someone in America needs
a blood transfusion. They could be cancer patients, accident victims, premature
infants or people with chronic diseases. Kookooroo Chicken is providing a free
lunch to all those who donated blood.
Life University
Life University and the Council on Chiropractic Education are pleased to announce
that they have reached an agreement to resolve the issues surrounding the accreditation
status of the university’s Doctor of Chiropractic program. The agreement
continues Life’s current accredited status and provides for a special accreditation
process that is scheduled to be completed by the end of January 2005.
[See also accreditation story, p.40]
Life Chiropractic College West
On May 9, hundreds of practicing chiropractors, chiropractic associates and students
were on hand for Life Chiropractic College West’s annual Spring for Life.
Everyone enjoyed this day of cutting edge chiropractic and health-care information,
fellowship, networking and sumo wrestling.
Life West President Gerard Clum began the day with a plenary session that was
filled with the latest news in chiropractic and health care. Recently returning
from the World Federation of Chiropractic and the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing
Boards conferences, Clum began his talk with a run down of the status of chiropractic
practice and education in numerous countries throughout the world and the United
States.
Due to the conscientious efforts of the students, faculty and staff, Life West
recently received the City of Hayward’s 2003 Business Environmental Achievement
Award-in the category of Waste Reduction and Recycling.
Each year, Hayward’s City Council acknowledges the environmental stewardship
efforts by residents, schools and businesses. Clum accepted the award on behalf
of the college at the April 22 City Council meeting. Life West’s recycling
program impressed the judges of this competition by decreasing the output of monthly
garbage by 35 percent.
Logan College of Chiropractic
The Logan Health Centers were among the exhibitors at St. Louis’ recent
Working Women’s Survival Show, a three-day event which attracts several
thousand attendees from throughout the region.
Representing Logan were nearly 50 Health Center interns, 16 lower-trimester students,
clinicians and staff members. The interns provided visitors with free soft tissue
work at muscular stress points, and discussed information about chiropractic care
with visitors. More than 600 people visited Logan’s booth.
On April 23 at the National Catholic Educational Association convention in St.
Louis, about 30 high school teachers and administrators watched and listened attentively
to a web-cast program designed to give insight into the process of diagnosis.
The presenter of the program was Logan anatomy instructor William Huber,
D.C.
Huber’s program was delivered via two-way interactive distance-learning
technology from Logan’s anatomy amphitheatre, where he was lecturing, to
the seminar room at St. Louis’ Cervantes Convention Center at America’s
Center, the site of the NCEA convention. Participants at the convention center
could interact with Huber via a large-screen interactive distance-learning program.
Projected on the screen at the convention center, participants saw a live classroom
demonstration by Huber, including a view of dissected nervous system structures
in a human cadaver.
Now Logan is making the Tour of the Body program available to high schools via
a voice, video and data system capable of live, interactive distance-learning
functions. Funds from a $600,000 package of federal grants that Logan received
in 2002 were used to purchase the new technology.
New York Chiropractic College
It appears that athletes, when given the opportunity to undergo chiropractic
care, will do so. What’s more, clinical interns administering the care
feel that the experience enhances their education. NYCC’s J. Russell Ebbets,
D.C., recently published a scholarly piece that describes the benefits that
accrue to athletes and chiropractic students when chiropractic treatment is
offered at supervised, on-site athletic events.
Ebbets’ premise, that the clinical education of chiropractic interns is
likely enhanced by participation in a well-planned, off-campus treatment experience,
was supported in data discussed in his article detailing on-site treatment of
athletes at running road races and track meets. Interns who belonged to the
college’s Sports Science Club responded to a survey and expressed their
reactions to the experience. They had pre-qualified through their participation
in club activities.
Having enjoyed the opportunity to offer chiropractic care to many of the 3,000
attending athletes, results showed that students valued the clinical experience,
and the athletes availing themselves of chiropractic benefits at the race increased
from the year 2000 to 2001.
Ebbets’ paper concluded that visible opportunities such as the on-site
treatment of athletes at road races offer statistical evidence of the strong
demand for chiropractic care if and when the service is available and allows
a select group of pre-qualified student interns a valuable opportunity to realize
early professional goals.
Northwestern University of Health Science
Thousands of children and their families found fun at Northwestern’s Bloomington
Loves Its Kids Carnival. The festivities were held on Northwestern’s campus
and featured a wide range of activities for kids of all ages and their families.
“The entire day was a success,” said John Healy, director of communications
at Northwestern. “We have been hosting this event on campus for more than
a decade, and it is a great opportunity for the University to give back to the
community.”
The day was filled with activities for the whole family, including a carnival,
live entertainment and educational exhibits. In addition, Northwestern’s
Natural Care Center provided hundreds of children with spinal screens and advice
on how to be healthy through chiropractic.
The carnival games in the gym, which were sponsored by the Bloomington Breakfast
Optimist Club, offered exciting activities for people of all ages. The educational
exhibit area included dozens of booths providing community and child-related information
from Bloomington-based organizations.
Palmer College of Chiropractic
The Palmer/YMCA Childcare Center recently won the Scott County Family Y 2003 Community
Partnership Award. Since opening last fall, it has welcomed the children of employees
and students, providing excellent childcare only blocks from the Palmer College
campus. The center has expanded its facilities and, aside from the other age groups,
can now care for up to 12 children ages six-weeks to one-year.
The center is owned by Palmer College and is operated by the Scott County Family
YMCA, and the Palmer schedule is observed for the convenience of the Palmer community.
Chiropractic health care is also available for the children in a special adjusting
room on site.
Palmer College of Chiropractic Florida
Second-quarter students Kirk Alderman and Brian Moriarty have formed a student
chapter of the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) at Palmer Florida
and are now serving as president and vice president, respectively, of the organization.
Other charter members are: Christine Fluke, treasurer; Lynn Mabry, secretary;
Javier Centurion, membership chairman; Ashley Owens; Doug Lynch; and John Neff.
Professor Maxine McMullen, D.C., a former vice president of the ICA, is the group’s
faculty adviser.
“Brian and I felt a need to form the SICA chapter here to preserve chiropractic’s
unique identity as a separate, distinct and drugless health-care profession predicated
upon its philosophy, science and art,” Alderman said. “We plan to
develop an awareness and understanding of chiropractic’s fundamental principles
through education, events, social activities and student support.”
At an organizational meeting on May 21, Palmer College President Guy Riekeman,
D.C., and ICA representative Kevin Fogarty, D.C., commended the students for their
efforts and welcomed them into the ICA.
Palmer College of Chiropractic West
Serving as the primary sports care provider at some of the biggest athletic events
in the Bay Area has provided the Palmer West Sports Council with unique learning
experiences and has established the council as one of the premier on-site sports
care resources in the Bay Area.
The council was recently the primary sports care provider for the Sea Otter Classic,
a five-day cycling competition based at the Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, Calif.
World-class cyclists competing in the 12th annual event, visited the Sports Council
tent for chiropractic adjustments and injury care.
Their collective efforts impressed the athletes and race organizers who have invited
the Council to serve as the primary sports care provider at next year’s
event. Some 50 council members participated, with approximately 9,000 cyclists
racing.
Parker College of Chiropractic
Researchers in the Research Institute at Parker College of Chiropractic say they
may have found an effective treatment for various painful conditions caused by
injuries to the nervous system. Tests using B-vitamins, such as B1, B6 and B12,
are showing significant results in blocking pain in laboratory rats.
Xuejun Song, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor and associate director of Basic
Science Research, and Zhengbei Wang, M.D., postdoctoral associate, both from the
Parker Research Institute, presented their findings at the Experimental Biology
meeting in San Diego held by the American Physiological Society (APS) and the
other five prestigious national research organizations. APS has identified the
Parker team’s study—one of thousands submitted from worldwide scientists—as
one of the 12 that may hold potential interest for the public.
Song heads the research team, which conducted tests ranging 2-12 weeks to examine
the short-and long-term effects of B-vitamins on rats that had been put through
invasive operative procedures. The team’s results found that both severity
and duration of pain in these rats were significantly reduced depending on the
dosage.
“These studies strongly support and broaden the knowledge and clinical use
of B-vitamins in aiding in treatment of chronic pain due to the nerve injury or
spinal cord trauma and/or other injuries and diseases of the nervous systems,”
noted Song.
Dr. Kenneth Hansen and Dr. Jason Vanderford, two current professors at Parker
College, have received new staff appointments as leaders of the residency in radiology
program.
Hansen, a Parker College alumnus, was named the chairperson for the Department
of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology Residency. The appointment will take effect
Sept. 1, 2003. He is currently an associate professor who teaches bone pathology
and normal radiographic anatomy.
Vanderford was named the director of Radiology Residency Program. He began work
at Parker College in September 2002 and currently teaches the fundamentals of
diagnostic imaging and bone pathology as an assistant professor.
Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic
In the area of human potential, few experts are better known and more respected
than Mark Victor Hansen, author of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul
book series. For more than 25 years, Hansen has focused on helping people and
organizations from all walks of life reshape their personal vision of what is
possible. Hansen brought his motivational message, “The Power of Focus”
to the Sherman campus May 23.
Hansen’s powerful messages of possibility, opportunity and action have
helped create startling and powerful change in thousands of organizations and
millions of individuals worldwide. He is an enthusiastic crusader of human potential
and is driven to make the world a better place.
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