Authors' Bio Sketches
 

Fred Colley, PhD, MPH

Professor
Western States Chiropractic College
Curriculum Vitae

Fred Colley has been a professor at Western States Chiropractic College, Portland, OR since 1979. He teaches Clinical Microbiology, Immunology, Public Health and Dermatology. Colley also worked as a researcher, instructor and administrator as a member of the University of California International Center for Medical Research and Training, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1970-1976. In 1990 Colley went to the People's Republic of China as a member of the first China-USA scientific exchange on HIV disease.

Colley has been a member of the American Public Health Association (APHA) since 1980. He was a member of the editorial committee for the application leading to the establishment of Chiropractic Health Care as the 25th section of APHA in 1995.

Colley has over 50 publications in the areas of parasitology, immunology, chiropractic traditional medical systems and public health.

Mitch Haas, DC, MA

Professor, Dean of Research
Western States Chiropractic College
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Haas is Professor and Dean of Research at Western States Chiropractic College. He is the principal investigator of a number of federally funded studies and serves on the executive committee of two CAM centers funded by NCCAM. Dr. Haas serves on the editorial boards of three journals and is a grant reviewer for NIH/NCCAM and FCER. Dr. Haas has been an active member of the American Public Health Association. He has served as chair of the APHA Chiropractic Health Care Section and Intersectional Council, and has been a member of the APHA Governing Council, Intersectional Council Steering Committee, and Executive Board. Dr. Haas received his DC degree from WSCC in 1986.

 Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD, CHES

Vice President of Research and Scholarship
Cleveland Chiropractic College

Curriculum Vitae

Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD, CHES, is a 1976 graduate of National College of Chiropractic and practiced full-time for 12 years. In 1991, she earned a PhD in Preventive Medicine from the University of Iowa and also became a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). While in Iowa, Dr. Hawk was the first chiropractor ever to be appointed to the Iowa Board of Health, the State Preventive Health Advisory Committee and the Director's Council of Scientific and Health Advisors of the Iowa Department of Public Health. In 2001 the Chiropractic Health Care Section of the American Public Health Association gave her its Distinguished Service Award, and in 2003, the American Chiropractic Association named her “Researcher of the Year.” Both these honors were awarded for her work in the area of public health, health promotion and prevention. She was Professor and Dean at Southern California University of Health Sciences and is currently the Vice President of Research and Scholarship at Cleveland Chiropractic College.

 Eric Hurwitz, DC, PhD

Assistant Professor In-Residence
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Hurwitz is Assistant Professor In-Residence in the Department of Epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health. He has more than a decade of chiropractic and other health-care research experience and has recently been the project director for two federally funded randomized clinical trials addressing the effectiveness of chiropractic and medical care for low-back and neck pain in a managed-care setting. With funding from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Dr. Hurwitz is currently studying the interrelationships of psychosocial, behavioral, and immune factors in back pain. He is an author or coauthor of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, and serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Topics in Clinical Chiropractic, and a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health.

 Mike Perillo, DC, MPH

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Bridgeport, College of Chiropractic
Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Perillo is a 1978 graduate of the National College of Chiropractic. He has maintained private practice in Long Island New York since 1979. He received his Master in Public Health (MPH) from the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University in 1994. His studies included a concentration in epidemiology and health assessment, and an internship at the Nassau County Department of Health. His interests are in the epidemiology of chronic diseases, the integration of clinical preventive services in chiropractic practice and clinical outcome assessment. He has been the lead instructor in epidemiology and public health for the University of Bridgeport, College of Chiropractic since 1997.

 Monica Smith, DC, PhD

Associate Professor
Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research
Curriculum Vitae

Since 1987, Monica Smith, DC, PhD, has been affiliated with various health services research programs/projects at St. Louis University School of Public Health, SLU School of Medicine, Dept. of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in St. Louis, MO, and currently as an associate professor assigned full-time to the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research.

Her interests are  methodological and conceptual issues of episodes-of-care research; examining the role of chiropractic and complementary/alternative healthcare within the larger health care system; evaluating and improving the cost and quality of, and access to, chiropractic and complementary/alternative healthcare; developing research infrastructure; and supporting evidence-based health care delivery (organization, financing, utilization, practice/provision, policy).

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