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60 Anniversary
Issue
A magazine for Canadian chiropractors from the CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE
Research Round Up on Page 22
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Attendees at the recent ACC/RAC conference in Las Vegas (left to right):
Dr. Alan Adams, Academic Administrator, Office of the Provost, Florida State
University; Mrs. Sharon Adams; Dr. John Taylor, Professor of Radiology, New
York Chiropractic College; and from CMCC, Ms. Margaret Butkovic, Director,
Library Services and Dr. John Mrozek, Dean, Undergraduate Education
Update from the President
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Dr. Jean Moss addresses Campaign questions
Message from the Chair
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In Brief
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CMCC to Grant Degrees
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The Originals
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Our Diamond Jubilee; how CMCC began
Homecoming 2005
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Old friends, new campus
Backs in Motion
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Passages
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Remembering Dr. David Tomlinson
Letter to the Editor
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CMCC Abroad
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Strong showing at WFC in Sydney
Continuing Education
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Class Notes
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Research Round up
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Students benefit from growing opportunities
Campaign
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Alumni Profile
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Dr. Chris Oswald takes on ergonomic design
Class of 2005 Graduates
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First Convocation at 6100 Leslie Street
In Memoriam
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UPDATE
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Convocation 2005: New Beginnings
A true milestone was the first
convocation from our new campus.
Held this past June, the day was a
wonderful chance for parents and
friends to celebrate the achievements
of the class of 2005 and tour our new
home. It was a day of warm smiles
Dr. Jean Moss, President
and heartfelt congratulations. For
those of you unable to attend, here is
an excerpt of my well-wishes as the class of 2005 received
their diplomas and were welcomed into the profession.
“
CMCC is an institution founded on deeply held
principles. Our earliest leaders were passionate,
driven, determined to succeed, overcome and found an
institution that was desperately needed.
“Canadian chiropractic needs a birthplace…a training
ground for the profession. We need a shrine from which
we can all gather strength. Nothing but a college to train
our young men and women will suffice. I think Canada is
ready! Are we?” These are the words of one of CMCC’s
founders, Dr. Walter Sturdy. He spoke them in 1942.
Sommacal’s words sound today. With one academic year
under our belts, the Class of 2005 is the first class to
graduate from our new campus. Having helped to launch
our clinic, it’s a milestone of which all members of this
graduating class can especially be proud. The first twelve
months of any new venture is fraught with unknowns and
challenges. The members of the Class of 2005, in no small
part, helped CMCC to tackle ours head on this year. On
behalf of the institution and those students who follow in
your footsteps, thank you. It’s an important contribution,
and legacy to leave behind you.
Keeping CMCC a strong and thriving educational and
research institution must be as important to us now as it
was to our founders. Chiropractic has come so very far,
but, as we assume our place at the national health care
table, we still have work to do. A strong CMCC remains
in all of our best interests. So, continuing to stay involved
in CMCC’s future is just one of the many ways you can,
over the coming years, re-commit to a profession that will
give so much to you. Volunteering your time, or lending
support, is a great feeling and it is worth so much.
In his words to the first-ever CMCC graduating class of
1949, another of CMCC’s founders and chair of the board,
Dr. S.F. Sommacal, stood where I now am and said: “It
is only now—with the graduation of the senior group of
students—that I realize what a momentous beginning
was born at those meetings of ours … we remember the
delays and frustrations of the first groups being enrolled
in the old building which has since become the clinic.
What a glorious day it was when the new building was
complete!...[Now] we can all look back on the last five
to six years and realize that the college has become our
profession’s greatest force for cohesion.”
Right now there are chiropractors across Canada giving,
volunteering their time to lead our profession forward.
These men and women donate huge amounts of personal
energy and make sacrifices to contribute to the leadership
of CMCC and our national and provincial professional
associations, and local chiropractic societies. And there
are still many others who stay committed to CMCC
as members, Bookstore customers, CE participants,
recruitment ambassadors, Governors’ Club members, and
Campaign donors. All of these chiropractors are ensuring
that our profession remains strong and makes a future for
itself that is as bright and inspired as its past. Indeed, it is
because of their efforts that you have been afforded the
opportunities you have today, and can walk across this
stage. As you graduate, you are joining a long and proud
tradition of chiropractors who care deeply, passionately,
unswervingly about their chosen profession.
Sixty years, three campuses, and more than 5,300
graduates later, CMCC indeed remains “our profession’s
greatest force for cohesion.” And how familiar Dr.
This is why, as you enter our ranks I sincerely encourage
you to do the same. You are no longer a chiropractic
student; you are a chiropractor. You are the profession.
Now heading into our 60th year, CMCC had founders with
dreams and drive. They knew what had to be done, what
had to be built and no amount of negativity or division was
going to stand in their way.
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MESSAGE IN BRIEF
FROM THE CHAIR
It was a special day on June
24, 2005 when 151 CMCC
students became Doctors
of Chiropractic. With these
highly trained men and
women now in our ranks,
the future of chiropractic
Dr. Dave Olson,
in Canada remains strong.
Board Chair
Every member of CMCC
should be proud of his or her contribution to the
education of these new graduates.
On behalf of the Board of Governors, I thank you
for continuing to support CMCC and the future of
chiropractic in Canada.
I had the privilege of giving some opening remarks
at the ceremony. Before I left for Toronto to
attend, I told my patients I was going to speak to
the graduating class. I asked about 30 of them the
following question:
What quality was most important to you when you
chose a health care provider and chose to stay
with that health care provider?
You would think there would be 30 different
answers. I was surprised to find a common theme
in 90% of the responses. The last patient I spoke
with summarized it best. She told me that what
she wanted was a doctor who respected the “three
C’s”—Caring, Communication and Competence.
Shades of CMCC Green
Today’s awareness
of global warming,
our green house
gas emissions,
and Canada’s
Kyoto pledge has
Canadians open
to new ideas and
choices. Enter
Green Fleet. This
spring CMCC
signed on for a
nine-month bicycle
CMCC chiropractic students and avid cyclists
awareness project
Mike Caterer, Emily Roback, and Curtis Jurgens
with Toronto’s
award-winning
Community Bicycle Network. CMCC’s employees and
students are being given a series of bike skills and tool
workshops to increase their enjoyment when biking.
“Cycling is good for the body, and good for the environment.
We feel we should all do more of it and that it is a good fit
for a chiropractic college,” says CMCC president Dr. Jean
Moss. “We’ve won awards for our green building design
as well as a city Bicycle Friendly Business award. So the
administration and the Students’ Council were excited to join
together and get involved in the Green Fleet initiative. After
all, chiropractors are dedicated to increasing the health and
wellness of all Canadians. By participating in this innovative
program, we are actively encouraging our more than 800
faculty, staff and students to lead by example.”
TENS Units Donation
The gist was that my patients wanted doctors
who listened to them and cared about them as
individuals. They wanted someone who respected
their own knowledge about themselves and would
help them to make their health care decisions.
They wanted health care providers to be part of
their total health care team, and to recognize that
no one provider can address all of their needs.
We should all remember the three C’s in our daily
practice, whether we are just starting out, or count
our time in practice by the decade.
Congratulations to all the new graduates, and
welcome to the profession.
CMCC was grateful to receive a generous gift of 10 EasyMed TENS Units from
Dr. Shaffique Kassam (class of 1998) (left) and Dr. Lorne Papernick (class of 1995)
(right) for use by interns in our clinics. Accepting the gift on behalf of CMCC is
Director of the Supply Centre and Bookstore, Mr. Vince Attisano (centre). The
EasyMed TENS Unit are also for sale at the Bookstore.
Continued on page 4
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IN BRIEF
BackSwing 2005
“CMCC’s first annual golf tournament
at Angus Glen golf course was a huge
success,” says the event’s co-chair Dr.
Rocco Guerriero. “Because it was a
scramble format, the great thing was that
even the non-golfers had fun. What a
treat it was to see all the smiling faces.”
“It was extremely satisfying to see it
all come to fruition,” said Guerriero
after the event. “It was a great team
effort! Thank you to all of you who
made this event a real success.”
Organizers wish to express their deep
gratitude to the BackSwing 2005
donors and sponsors, in particular
the tournament’s silver sponsor, the
North York Rehabilitation Centre.
back pain and exercise. It’s the first
time a review has comprehensively
examined the characteristics of
exercise interventions for chronic
and acute low-back pain. To view
the research, visit www.annals.org.
Congratulations, Dr. Hayden!
Now Available:
Duplicate Diploma
You asked, we listened!
The Registrar’s Office is pleased to
provide the opportunity for CMCC
graduates to purchase duplicate copies
of their diplomas. Many graduates
have asked for copies for their second
office or for display at home.
Now you have the chance.
(Left to right) Event co-chairs Dr. Rocco Guerriero
and Dr. Peter Kim
Just as important, notes Guerriero—
who chaired the June 29 fundraiser
with Dr. Peter Kim—was that the
day raised $25,000 for chiropractic
education and research.
More than 130 golfers took part. The
overwhelming consensus was that
everyone had fun. Although no single
golfer took home a Mercedes-Benz
Sport Coupe or won a trip to Las
Vegas by scoring a hole-in-one off the
designated tees, at least one drive did
ring off the pin at the $25,000 8th hole.
The winning team was from CIBC:
Mr. Norm Brown, Mr. John Kehoe,
Mr. Keith Knowling, and Mr. Dave
McLean. With a score of 12 under par,
they added a trophy to their bank’s
corporate mantelpiece.
Following the game was an early
evening cocktail party, dinner, silent
auction, and awards presentation. Master
of ceremonies Mark Hebscher—a wellknown sports personality and host of CH
Live @ 12:30—entertained the crowd.
He announced the lucky grand-prize
raffle winner, who took home a $1,200
set of Callaway Steelhead X-16 irons
and a Wilson golf bag.
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A BackSwing
2005 participant
lines up a putt.
Alumnus Publishes
Research in Annals
of Internal Medicine
Dr. Jill Hayden (class of 1996), a
researcher with the Institute for Work
& Health, has published two new
reviews in the prestigious journal
Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr.
Hayden conducted a systematic
review of research studies about
Your duplicate diploma will be
14 x 17 inches and will have
signatures from the current
administration. For further details and
to request a duplicate diploma, call us
at 416-482-2344 or toll free at
1-800-463-2923.
New Building Buzz
CMCC’s new campus is turning
heads. Not only has it received
two significant grants for energy
efficiencies—initiatives undertaken
during construction—it has been
featured in several trade publications
as a showcase for innovation and
design. Way to go!
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UPDATE
FROM THE PRESIDENT continued . . .
Welcome to the team. We are only as collectively strong
as each of our individual commitments. Personally, I feel
so very fortunate to have spent my life engaged with,
contributing to, and learning from so many colleagues
in this profession. So I urge you to give back. Give back
your time and your support as soon as, and as often as you
are able. Remember, Dr. Sturdy’s words first said more
than 60 years ago: “I think Canada is ready! Are we?”
He was. They were. And because of that, today CMCC is
among the very top chiropractic institutions in the world.
So this begs the question, when tomorrow’s challenges for
chiropractic arise: will you be ready?
Convocation is a momentous day. It represents every single
day of hard work from the previous four years of study,
and it is the first day of the rest of your life as a Doctor of
Chiropractic. Good luck on your journey CMCC’s Class
of 2005. You will take on many new challenges along
the way. And one day, when you reach the end of your
career, it is my hope that you are able to look back with
admiration at all that you have taken from, and put back
into, our wonderful and essential profession.
In closing, I thank all of you who are gathered here today
to honour the achievements and promise of the members
of the graduating class. It is our privilege to commend this
graduating class to the larger chiropractic profession. The
world needs what you have to offer, Class of 2005. And
know that you take with you our admiration, our
best wishes, and our warmest congratulations!
”
New Degree-Granting Status
In April 2005, CMCC was pleased to announce that it was
granted consent to offer a Doctor of Chiropractic degree
program. The news came from the Honourable Mary Anne
Chambers, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
The degree program will commence with the class entering
in August 2005 and is pursuant to the Post-secondary
Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000. This Act, for
the first time in Ontario, allows private institutions to apply
for degree-granting status.
“CMCC is honoured to become the first private institution
in Ontario to be granted the privilege of offering a
professional health care degree under this Act,” says Dr.
Jean Moss. The evaluation process was rigorous and
included a full organizational review, a program quality
review, and two site visits.
“Degree-granting status recognizes the quality of CMCC’s
program. It sets the program within the hierarchy of
education in Ontario as comparable to that of other
primary contact health care professions, such as medicine,
dentistry, and optometry,” says Moss.
“We anticipate future graduates will find that the their
CMCC credits will facilitate their admittance to postgraduate university programs,” she adds. In addition,
CMCC’s status within the educational community will
be enhanced, and it is to be hoped that the institution will
have greater input into the development of post-secondary
educational policy.
This achievement results from the hard work of many
people within CMCC and would not be possible without
the support of the Canadian Chiropractic Protective
Association, The Canadian Chiropractic Association,
the Ontario Chiropractic Association, and the College of
Chiropractors of Ontario (CCO).
It is worth noting that degree-granting status is not tied to
funding for accepted institutions. CMCC continues to be a
private, not-for-profit educational institution. “We believe
that in the future it will have a positive impact on our
faculty’s ability to obtain research funding,” adds Moss.
For chiropractors in the field, CMCC’s new status
does not change anything. Chiropractic education has
been accredited for many years. Chiropractic remains
recognized and validated by the Regulated Health
Professions Act (RHPA). All chiropractors in Ontario
will continue to be governed by the CCO through the
Chiropractic Act under the RHPA.
And how does this affect chiropractic patients in Canada?
“We do hope that degree-granting will help patients more
clearly understand the level and quality of chiropractic
education,” says Moss. “It represents a great day for
chiropractic in Canada.”
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THE
ORIGINALS
CMCC Celebrates its Diamond Jubilee
On a rainy morning
on September 18,
1945, eighteen-yearold Yvonne Pearson
from Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, was
making her way
through the drizzle in
downtown Toronto.
“It was such a long
time ago,” she says,
remembering that day.
Dr. Yvonne Pearson, in her 1949
“There was no taxi
yearbook photograph
and I arrived wet. The
building was brick. Where I came from, most of the
buildings were wood.” The future Dr. Pearson paused
a moment at the threshold of the now long-vanished
structure at 252 Bloor Street West, which prior to 1945
was a hotel, the Meadonia. This was the place that would
become the focus of
her life for the next
four years and serve
as the foundation for
her career for decades
to come. Pearson
was about to begin
her first day of class
at the newly minted
Canadian Memorial
CMCC at 252 Bloor Street West
Chiropractic College.
Graduates of this
class shaped many of
the institutions and
icons their younger
colleagues still
recognize today.
“I designed the
college crest,”
recounts RCAF
veteran Kenneth
Lewis, six decades
after the fact. “Some
Dr. Kenneth Lewis in 1949
of the other fellows
wrote the school song.” The same crest Lewis designed
adorns CMCC’s official correspondance today. Many of
his classmates went on to become leading members of
the profession and sit on CMCC’s Board of Governors.
It was an era of boundless energy and enthusiasm.
Armistice had been declared and the country—indeed,
the world—was coming to terms with the fact that the
Second World War was over and it was time to rebuild.
Ninety per cent of CMCC’s original class were exservicemen and women.
“When I think back on it,” says Pearson, “what strikes me
is that you would never have known that they had seen
and gone through so many horrible things. They were
so good at settling down and staying in class.” Pearson
was one of a small but influential group of women who
Fifty-nine years later—to the very day—a group of
students watched in much the same state of excitement
as the flag was raised at CMCC’s most recent and
ambitious incarnation at 6100 Leslie Street. As the class
of 2008 prepared for its march into the ranks of modern
chiropractic, the students knew they had much to be
grateful for, and many accomplishments of their own
still to achieve.
Pearson and the class of ’49 were a group of visionary
men and women—most of them veterans of last
century’s most destructive war—who went on to become
the first generation of Canadian-trained chiropractors.
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Female students from the classes of ’49 through ’52
decided to make a career of chiropractic. The war’s end
brought with it an expectation that women should give
up working outside the home to free up employment
opportunities for returning soldiers. But there was room
for her in chiropractic. What she remembers most vividly,
having spent the war years as a youth safe at home in
Saskatchewan, was the kindness of her classmates who
had lived through what many could not even imagine.
Dr. Herbert Vear
enlisted when he was
18, joining the Air
Force and becoming
a navigator guiding
Lancaster bombers.
He flew just five
missions before
Germany’s surrender.
“One fellow in our
class flew sixty,” he
says. “It’s amazing
he survived.” Other
Dr. Herbert Vear in 1949
classmates of Vear’s
took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and served
in many bloody campaigns in both the Canadian Army
and Navy. Former soldiers would later admit that what
inspired them to pursue chiropractic in the first place was
the number of twisted spines they had seen on their tours
of duty.
“We were a much more disciplined
society than we are today,” Vear
believes. “And I think I’ll be forgiven
for saying we were more mature. But
you mature early in war.”
basement was used for practising chiropractic technique.
“We were jammed in there pretty tight,” agrees Lewis,
who during summer holidays took a job with the
construction company hired to renovate the old hotel.
After graduation, Lewis went on to work in Midland,
Ontario, where he practised for 33 years. Vear ran a
practice in east end Toronto until 1968 when he returned
to CMCC as dean, a position he held until 1976. Pearson
returned to Moose Jaw and was a chiropractor in her
hometown for the next 42 years.
“We had a lot of work to do in those
days,” she says. “People couldn’t
afford to go to the hospital. It was a
far harder life than it is now. Most
worked very long hours. They had
to just lift things. Chiropractors had a
lot of work to do.”
Maturity was certainly a quality
CMCC demanded of its earliest
students. “Initially, facilities
The past six decades have been a
were, shall we say, primitive,”
time of both triumph and challenge
From the class of ’49 (left to right): unknown,
C.B. Crowe, M. Kelly, unknown, G.F. Stubbs
Vear remembers. “There weren’t
for the profession. Chiropractic
even enough chairs to sit on, but most of us had just
has reached out and earned its place as a component of
come from the military, so we were used to not being
Canada’s health care system. Its practitioners routinely
comfortable.” The CMCC Ontario Women’s Chiropractic
collaborate with other professional disciplines to advance
Auxiliary located chairs for the students, and by the end
the health of their patients. Yet one fact holds true as
of the first year they had found desks as well. There were
much as it did 60 years ago in Dr. Pearson’s time: Today,
two rooms assigned as classrooms, and a coal room in the
chiropractors are still working as hard as ever.
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HOMECOMING
2005
Alumni Come Home to a New Campus
The first Homecoming to take place at CMCC’s new
campus at 6100 Leslie Street welcomed alumni from
across Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia.
Classmates took the opportunity to celebrate many
wonderful memories and to admire the new campus.
1950
Unlike previous years, all Homecoming events took
place at CMCC. Visitors met with students, faculty and
staff and toured the state-of-the-art facility.
1955
Class of ’50 (left to right): Dr. Daniel Komesch, Dr. Edgar Reinhart,
and Dr. Stephen West
1965
Class of ’55 (left to right). Back row: Dr. Doug Brown, Dr. Gerald Webb, and
Dr. Robert Galbraith. Front row: Dr. Donald Allen and Dr. Donald Swick
As has become tradition at Homecoming, the weekend
got underway with the Anniversary Class Luncheon—
held this year in the new CCPA Hall. Front and centre
was the class of ’55. Its members received a special
tribute on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of their
graduation. Guests watched a video that captured
memories of the time. An extended version of the video,
including highlights of the Homecoming weekend and
class interviews, will be sent to all members of the 50th
anniversary class. The video will be the seventh in a
series that began in 1999 with the 50th anniversary of the
class of ’49 (CMCC’s first graduating class).
Members of the class of ’55 were honoured with CMCC
Life Memberships. Also honoured with their anniversary
class pins were the classes of ’50, ’60, ’65 and ’70.
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Class of ’65 (left to right): Dr. Lois Eveleigh, Dr. Derrill Ladell,
Dr. Joy Makohoniuk, Dr. James Misner, Dr. Patricia Spratt, Dr. George Coder,
Dr. Allan Hawkins, Dr. Brian Donbrook, and Dr. Michael Beaton
1985
Class of ’85 (left to right). Back row: Dr. David Orchard, Dr. Richard Plourde,
Dr. Wilbour Kelsick and Dr. Richard Kapitza. Middle row: Dr. Patrick Levesque,
Dr. Jenny Bekeschus and Dr. Denis Chouinard. Front row: Dr. Jeffrey Kinnersly,
Dr. Cecile Thackeray, Dr. Annette Bourdon, Dr. Linda Gordon,
and Dr. Pamela Carlson-Newton
1960
Class of ’60 (left to right): Dr. David Redding, Dr. Paul Korbelas,
and Dr. Leonard Faye
1970
1990
Class of ’90 (left to right). Back row: Dr. Reginald Gates, Dr. J. B. Lohrenz,
Dr. Jim Leskun, Dr. Kevin Nash, Dr. Todd Walker, and Dr. John Gluckman.
Middle row: Dr. Susan Shaw, Dr. Gordon McMorland, Dr. Michael Murray,
and Dr. Craig Johannes. Front row: Dr. Lori Darroch, Dr. Laurel Cowie,
and Dr. Carolyn Wood
The start of the Continuing Education program, titled
“Healthy Aging: What Every Chiropractor Needs to
Know,” coincided with numerous tours of the facility.
The first day of Homecoming concluded with the
President’s Welcome Home Barbecue, where nearly 250
guests enjoyed an informal get-together. The Saturday
program began with the Governors’ Club breakfast. The
Continuing Education program continued throughout
the day, concluding before the Grand Reception held in
CMCC’s expansive atrium.
Class of ’70 (left to right). Back row: Dr. Michael Vangen, and
Dr. Michael Livingstone. Middle row: Dr. Poul Lowe-Madsen,
Dr. Seamus MacDonald, and Dr. Gary Adams. Front row: Dr. Jean Moss,
Dr. Roy Kariatsumari, Dr. Peter Wysotski, and Dr. Warren Rahn
Thank you to each of the class representatives for your
efforts in encouraging attendance at this inaugural
Homecoming at 6100 Leslie Street. Special mention
must go to the class of ’80 which had an exceptionally
large turnout.
Homecoming 2006 will take place June 2−3 at CMCC.
Alumni who will be celebrating special anniversaries
include the classes of ’51, ’56, ’61, ’66, ’71, ’76, ’81,
’86, ’91, ’96, ’01 and ’05. See you next year!
1980
Class of ’80 (Left to right). Back row: Dr. Joseph Kroft, Dr. Branko Milen, and
Dr. Normand Danis. Third row: Dr. Paul Pritchard, Dr. Edward Sands,
Dr. Thomas Boyter, Dr. Duane Clark, Dr. Diane Houle, Dr. Terry Brown,
Dr. Robert Mathies, Dr. David Fletcher, Dr. Rodney Runge, Dr. Ron Brady,
Dr. Barbara Sloat, Dr. John Wotherspoon, Dr. Sharon Peterkin,
and Dr. Ray Graham. Second row: Dr. Peter Ambo, Dr. Michael Moreira,
Dr. Mary Ann Grape, and Dr. Thomas Kerr. First row: Dr. George Traitses,
Dr. Kathleen Murphy, Dr. Nancy Abram, Dr. Peter Van Redecopp,
Dr. John Hardy, and Dr. Silvano Mior
1995
Class of ’95 (left to right). Back row: Dr. Jeremy McGuire,
Dr. Douglas Donbrook, Dr. Gregory Bidinosti, and Dr. Warren Hollis.
Front row: Dr. Mark Boden, Dr. Jeffrey Reihl, Dr. Kimberly Burgis,
and Dr. Steven Scott
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BACKS
IN
MOTION
Mother Nature Fails to Dampen Spirits
On Sunday, April 24, 2005, over 400 participants and
volunteers braved cold, wet weather for the 20th annual
Backs in Motion 5k Run/Walk at Sunnybrook Park. Even
though Mother Nature was not on our side, the event will
be remembered for the enormous enthusiasm exhibited
by our participants of all ages—262 runners, 76 walkers,
and more than 70 volunteers—who all experienced a
memorable day while raising funds for chiropractic
education and research.
Overall Winner Category
Winner: Paul Kemp of Toronto, 15:51
Second: Ian Reid of Toronto, 15:53
Third: Mark Kitley of Toronto, 16:10
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Top Female Finishers
Winner: Edel Mooney of Toronto, 17:45.
Second: Stephanie Smith of Aurora, 18:20.
Third: Joelle Carmichael of Toronto, 18:38.
Our Volunteers Shine
A huge thank you to the volunteers who braved the
inclement weather to contribute to the event. Without their
dedication, Backs in Motion 2005 would not have been
such a great success. Staff, faculty, students, and friends
of CMCC came together effortlessly to produce a topnotch experience for all participants. Volunteers performed
tasks consisting of everything from course marshalling to
staffing water stations.
A special thank you goes to Dr. John DeFinney, Backs
in Motion co-founder, for his outstanding assistance
in planning and coordinating the event. Dr. De Finney
surpassed all expectations. He was a key member of the
event management team on race day but still managed to
win his age category with a time of 18:26.
Students Compete to the End
The Student Challenge has become a Backs in Motion
tradition at CMCC. This year, the classes of 2007 and
2008 competed for coveted bragging rights. The class of
2008 came out on top with a combined time of 1:48:05
for its top five runners. These runners were Jason Carney
(18:43), Andrea Wiggers (20:20), James Robert Byers
(21:52), Jaclyn Durante (22:41), and Leslie MacEwen
(24:29). However, the class of 2007 was close behind
with a combined time of 2:16:43, led by Katrin Grenacher
(21:52), Richard Houghton (23:40), Brian Martyniuk
(27:57), Sian Williams (31:31), and Trina Parry (31:43).
Several students from other years participated in Backs in
Motion 2005. The top student finisher overall was Steve
Pelletier (class of 2005) with a time of 17:52. CMCC
is proud of all its student athletes and congratulates all
student participants.
For all posted run results, please visit www.rrresults.com
Donations Pour in
To date, more than $44,000 has been raised from this
event for chiropractic education and research as a result
of pledges, donations, sponsorships, and registration
fees. For every pledge of $50, each participant’s name
was entered into the draw for a grand prize. This year’s
winner was Dr. Gordon McMorland, a member of the
CMCC Board of Governors from Calgary, Alberta.
Dr. McMorland received a fabulous gift package from
OBUS FORME Ltd. Thank you to everyone who raised
pledges all across Canada. A further congratulations goes
to the clinic at Sherbourne Health Centre for defending
its title and raising the most pledges during CMCC’s
clinic challenge
CMCC hopes to see you at next year’s event,
which will take place on Sunday, April 23, 2006.
Be sure to visit www.cmcc.ca for details as they
become available.
CMCC extends its appreciation to the following
event sponsors for their generous contributions
and support:
GOLD SPONSORS
Ontario Chiropractic Association
OBUS FORME Ltd.
Tempur Canada
SPONSORS
Acupuncture Council of Ontario
Basketball Ontario
Brennan Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd.
Brooks Canada
Day Dreams Spa
DNA Silk Screening Inc.
Foot Levelers, Inc.
Hair Domination
Karats Fine Jewellery
Mamma’s Pizza
NOAT – Solemates Inc.
Nutrition House
Ontario Produce Marketing Association
Propel
RadioShack
Rogers Video
Space Solutions
The Orthotic Group
The Running Room
Waterelated Products Inc.
Young + Wright Architects Inc.
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PASSAGES
David Tomlinson, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Longtime CMCC faculty member Dr. David
Tomlinson passed away February 12, 2005.
Tomlinson was a professor at the University of
Toronto and taught neuroscience at CMCC for
many years. He was recognized internationally as
a leading researcher in his field.
“I had the pleasure of knowing Dr. Tomlinson
over the 21 years that he taught at CMCC,” says
Dr. John Mrozek, CMCC’s dean of undergraduate
education, who will remember Tomlinson
particularly for the interest he took in helping
his students through the complexities in his
field. “He always arrived prior to his lectures to
sit in the cafeteria and make himself available
for the students. It was in that venue where I
had my conversations with him. He had the
drive necessary to run a large research lab at the
University of Toronto.”
At the University of Toronto, Tomlinson taught
in the departments of Otolaryngology,
Medicine, and Physiology, and at the Institute
of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering,
while also contributing to the undergraduate
education of CMCC students and conducting
chiropractic research. He was a past recipient of
the Dr. William Peek Memorial Faculty Award for
excellence in teaching at CMCC.
“David Tomlinson will be sorely missed,” says
Dr. Mrozek.
LETTER TO
THE EDITOR
Excerpt from a letter from Dr. Murray E. Schneider
Letter to the Editor:
I would like to congratulate Drs. Kopansky-Giles, Steiman,
and Drover on their accomplishment with St. Michael’s
Hospital and West Park Pro Active Healthcare Centre
[“CMCC Moves Chiropractic Into Hospital Settings,”
Fall/Winter 2004]. I have no doubt that the chiropractic
profession will be well represented by their presence. I
can certainly appreciate the time and energy that had to be
invested in order to get this type of program up and running.
In 1994 I also initiated this type of program; I was granted
staff privileges at the Lamont Hospital in Lamont, Alberta,
in order to integrate chiropractic care into a hospital-based
primary and secondary care setting. Chiropractic care was
made available to appropriate in-patients, out-patients and
long-term care patients. This initiative was funded by the
Lamont Hospital, Alberta Care, and out-patient fees. At the
time it was the first of its kind in Canada, and it ended in
1999, only when I entered graduate studies. I am also aware
of numerous other examples of this type of collaboration
in Alberta. I am pleased to see that this concept is being
continued in Ontario.
Murray E. Schneider D.C., F.C.C.O.(C), F.C.C.R.S.(C), M.App.Sc.
Fort Saskatchewan, AB
Dr. Jean Moss responds
Dear Dr. Schneider:
Thank you for your letter to the editor. I have to admit that
I was unaware of your role at Lamont Hospital in Alberta.
As far as we were aware, there had not been an example of
a chiropractor on staff in a hospital in Canada before the
opening of the clinic at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. I
apologize if our information was incorrect.
Congratulations on taking the initiative to be integrated into
the hospital setting. I think that this is an important step in
opening new opportunities for future chiropractors.
With regard to the narrowness of scope in such
environments, our experience with our clinics in the
hospital environment is that at the beginning other health
professionals often have a very narrow view of the type of
cases that should be referred to us. Within a short space of
time, their boundaries broaden and we are seeing a wide
variety of cases.
Thanks again for you input.
Dr. David Tomlinson
Yours sincerely,
Jean A. Moss, D.C., M.B.A.
President, CMCC
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CMCC ABROAD
Strong Showing at WFC in Sydney
The World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) held its 8th
Biennial Congress in Sydney, Australia, this year, and
Canadians made up the largest visiting delegation.
Sydney is the city in which the WFC was formed in
1988. The June 2005 meeting was billed as a celebration
of the art, science, and philosophy of chiropractic. The
proceedings showcased abstracts from an impressive slate
of research from Australia, Europe, Latin America, and
North America.
As for CMCC’s delegation and participation, Dr. Jean
Moss hosted a luncheon for CMCC alumni at the Novotel
Sydney Hotel in Darling Harbour. The event was a
tremendous success. In addition, CMCC’s contingent
was strong. Of Canada’s 20 presenters, eight were
CMCC faculty members: Dr. Stephen Injeyan, chair,
dept. of microbiology; Dr. Natalia Lishchyna, clinical
faculty; Dr. Jean Moss, president; Dr. John Mrozek, dean
of undergraduate education; Dr. Maja Stupar, clinical
sciences resident; Dr. Julita Teodorcyk-Injeyan, associate
professor; Dr. Glynn Till, director of chiropractic
clinical studies; and Dr. Hettie Till, associate dean of
undergraduate education. Our congratulations in particular
go to Drs. Julita Injeyan, Stephen Injeyan and Rick
Ruegg, who took second place in the original research
category for their paper, and to Drs. Natalia Lishchyna
and Judy Waalen for their second-place prize in the
Diagnostic Science category for their poster.
Dr. Maja Stupar, clinical sciences resident, at the Sydney Opera House
(Left to right) Dr. Inger Villadsen; Dr. Stefan Pallister; Dr. Jean Moss, president,
CMCC; Dr. Stefan Riederer
(Left to right) Dr. Scott Haldeman; Dr. Brian Kelly, president, Australian Spinal
Research Foundation; CMCC’s Dr. Natalia Lishchyna; Dr. Anthony Rosner,
FCER and Dr. Anthony Metcalf, WFC president
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CE
PROGRAMS
Chiropractic Rehabilitation Fellowship Program
100-hour Certification Program−2005/2006
Individual weekend registration is available. Earn 12.5 CE hours for each weekend.
All sessions:
Saturdays 1:00 p.m.−7:30 p.m.
Sundays 8:00 a.m.−2:00 p.m.
Module I: Toronto, ON
1) Introduction to Rehab
Gary F. Ierna, D.C.
September 17−18, 2005
2) Posture, Gait and Movement
Gary F. Ierna, D.C.
October 22−23, 2005
3) Muscle Energy/Balancing
Techniques & Sensorimotor Training
Gary F. Ierna, D.C.
November 12−13, 2005
4) Spinal Stabilization Training
Gary F. Ierna, D.C.
December 3−4, 2005
5) Outcomes Assessment Measures
Kim Humphreys, D.C., Ph.D.
Distance Education
6) Strength and Conditioning Training
Jason Pajaczkowski, D.C., C.S.C.S.,
F.C.C.S.S.(C), ART
January 28−29, 2006
7) End Range Loading Strategies
Gary Jacob, D.C., Lac, MPH
February 18−19, 2006
8) Lumbar Rehabilitation
Protocols and Case Management
Gary F. Ierna, D.C.
March 11−12, 2006
9) Cervical Spine Rehabilitation
Protocols and Case Management
Gary F. Ierna, D.C.
April 29−30, 2006
Kevin Cairns, B.Sc., KIN, CK
September 24−25, 2005
C. Robert Humphreys, M.S.,
D.C., D.A.C.N.B.
October 15−16, 2005
3) Research Methods, Science Writing and
Manuscript Preparation
Ron Feise, D.C.
November 12−13, 2005
4) Advanced Rehabilitation Protocols for the
Cervical Spine
Sylvia Dylie, D.C.
January 21−22, 2006
5) Ergonomics and Support Workshop
Mardy Frazer, Ph.D.
February 4−5, 2006
6) Treatment and Rehabilitation of TMJ and
Orofacial Pain
Clayton Skaggs, D.C.
February 25−26, 2006
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Cathy Jeremiason Finch, P.T.
March 18−19, 2006
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Eldon Tunks, M.D., Odette Tunks, D.C.
April 22−23, 2006
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Special Populations
Diana Mager, Ph.D., R.D.
Distance Education
Module III: Montreal, QC
1) Impairment Ratings and Disability
Evaluation Management
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CE PROGRAMS
Hockey Biodynamics
Sandy Sajko, B.P.H.E., M.Sc., D.C.
Bradley Muir, H.B.Sc. Kinesiology, D.C.
Date: Saturday, September 24, 2005
Location: Calgary, AB
Experience the latest innovative and evidence-based
techniques used to treat hockey players. This workshop
will review the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and
rehabilitation of some of the more common injuries
associated with playing ice hockey.
Workshop Objectives:
• Review assessment, treatment, and management
strategies for the most common hockey-related injuries.
• Explore the role of the closed kinetic chain as
it relates to hockey biomechanics and relevant
musculoskeletal issues.
11th Annual Conference on
Advancements in Chiropractic
Technique Tune-Up Workshop
Ayla Azad, D.C.
David Bereznick, D.C., Ph.D. – CMCC
Robert Cooperstein, M.A., D.C. – Palmer
Chiropractic University
Terry Elder, D.C. – National University of Health
Sciences and MPI Faculty
Len J. Faye, D.C. – California
Paul Gold, D.C. – CMCC
Kim Ross, D.C., Ph.D. – CMCC
Date: October 15-16, 2005
Location: Toronto – CMCC
• Learn exercises and training drills for rehabilitation
and performance enhancement.
Technique experts from across North America
will demonstrate and teach you what’s new in
chiropractic adjusting techniques and help you hone
your palpation skills, sharpen that pisiform to a
keen-edged instrument, and give you the opportunity
to adjust your chiropractic thrust.
Running Biodynamics
Here’s a glimpse of topics you will learn about:
• Understand the practical case management approach.
Sandy Sajko, B.P.H.E., M.Sc., D.C.
Bradley Muir, H.B.Sc. Kinesiology, D.C.
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
Experience the latest innovative and evidence-based
techniques used to treat runners. This workshop will
review the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and
rehabilitation of some of the more common running
injuries.
Workshop Objectives:
• Review the most common running-related injuries
including treatment and management strategies.
• Explore the role of the closed kinetic chain as
it relates to running biomechanics and relevant
musculoskeletal issues.
• Understand the practical case management approach.
• Learn exercises and training drills for rehabilitation
and performance enhancement.
CMCC Continuing
Education
Phone: 416-482-2340 ext. 191
Fax: 416-482-1696
Email: [email protected]
• Neurology of the chiropractic adjustment
• How specific are chiropractic adjustments?
• High velocity low amplitude adjusting
• Low force techniques including drop pieces and
toggle boards
• Unique approach to thoracic adjustments
• Gonstead-type adjustments
• Diagnostic and therapeutic blocking with padded
wedges, for torsion and sagittal plane postural faults
• Leg checking: functional vs. structural, and
associated therapeutic considerations
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prognosis, the use of outcome measures, and evidencebased treatment are addressed.
Following successful completion of a quiz at the end of the
module, a certificate for six CE hours will be generated.
$150 for CMCC members
$185 for non-members
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CE PROGRAMS
Chiropractic Management of
Somato-Visceral Disorders
Coming to Toronto, Calgary,
and Vancouver – Fall 2005
A three-hour evening workshop, featuring Dr. Brian
Budgell, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
Vancouver: Thursday, September 8, 2005
Toronto: Thursday, September 15, 2005
6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Risk Management and
Professional Boundaries
In this introductory three-hour evening workshop
on management of somato-visceral disorders, the
world’s leading expert, Dr. Brian Budgell, synthesizes
epidemiological, clinical, and basic physiological studies
to show the true power of chiropractic in the management
of these disorders. This is the lecture that you didn’t have
in school, and the one that you have asked for—the one
workshop by the one researcher in the world who is best
qualified to bring it all together for you.
Clinical Acupuncture
Starting September 2005
All sessions:
Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
and Sunday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Full brochure available online.
Now a
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program!
Program Dates and Topics
Rand Baird, D.C., M.P.H.
Gregory Dunn, D.C.
Professional Boundaries: Practical issues including
ethical, legal, and clinical aspects regarding professional
boundaries and relationships in modern society.
Sexual misconduct by doctors vis-à-vis patients, sexual
harassment by the doctor as an employer vis-à-vis
employees, employee misconduct, and related situations
are discussed.
A unique role-playing segment is included for
approximately 10−15 minutes of the presentation.
Risk Management: This segment will cover all
aspects of managing risk in your chiropractic practice.
Managing the risk, predisposing factors – What if it
happens to you? What do you do next?
Recognizing Serious Disease:
Diagnostic Challenges and Risk
Management in a Chiropractic Setting
This program is a combination of classes and distance
education. Distance education portions will include
reading assignments, tapes, videos, and quizzes.
Ron LeFebvre, D.C.
November 19−20, 2005
April 29−30, 2006
The sessions below may be taken individually. Dates to be
confirmed.
Course Outline
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Fred Hui
Practical and effective tips from a 30-year practice.
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Steven Aung
Vitally important acupoints that are effective and
efficient in the scope of chiropractic therapeutics.
Hands-on demonstrations and workshops in acupuncture
diagnostics.
Guest Lecturer: Dr. David Bray
Immune deficiency syndromes – Management of
immune dysfunction/dysregulation in patients with
specifically acquired auto-immune and medicinally
suppressed immune syndromes.
Guest Lecturers: Dr. Joseph Wong and Dr. Kien Trinh
Anatomical acupuncture−Evidence-based acupuncture of
common sports medicine conditions.
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Montreal, QC
Halifax, NS
• General strategies−High payoff components of
history, physical exam, and ancillary studies. What
are the relative values of the various diagnostic tools?
When is it most appropriate to access them, and how?
• Relative validity of clinical clues−Review of the basic
concepts of sensitivity, specificity, and predictive
value and how they relate to clinical decision-making.
• Low back pain referral patterns−Chiropractic
clinical neurology and understanding how and why
a particular pattern of pain can identify underlying
organ involvement.
• Red flags of caution−How to readily identify the
presence of organic disease. A review of Deyo and
Grieve’s work will underscore the importance of
early detection of warning signs and symptoms.
• Profiles and case studies−Attendees will be
challenged to clinically reason and problem-solve
their way through case presentations.
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we’re especially
pleased to let our
readers know we have
another diamond
anniversary to
Mrs. Bobbie Russell and Dr. David Russell
celebrate. On
March 19, 2005, Dr. David Russell (class of ’50) and his
wife Bobbie toasted their 60th wedding anniversary.
“It’s like everything else,” Mrs. Russell told a local news
reporter, “There’ve been ups and downs, but we’ve had a
good life.”
Much the same may be said of CMCC in the 60 years
since it opened its doors in 1945. Followers of the
history of chiropractic jurisprudence will remember Dr.
Russell’s testimony as an expert witness in a precedentsetting Supreme Court of Ontario trial in the early 1950s.
According to his colleague, Dr. Colin Greenshields, prior
to this, chiropractors had not been able to give expertwitness testimony in the country’s higher courts.
As far as he remembers, it would have been sometime in
the early 1970s that his class memento went missing. At
that time, Vear was dean of CMCC. “I must have taken if
off just before giving a demonstration in clinic technique,”
he says. “Maybe I put it down somewhere and forgot to
pick it up. Possibly it fell out of my pocket. To be honest,
I never really was aware of where or when I lost it.”
In 1977, Vear moved to the United States to become
president of the Western States Chiropractic College in
Portland, Oregon. Nearly a decade later, he returned to
Canada to retire in Pickering, Ontario. By this time, his
old ring had faded almost entirely from memory.
But in the spring of 2005, when he opened a letter from
Moss describing the enigmatic article that had come into
her possession, recollection flooded back.
“A lot of people wouldn’t have done that,” he says,
adding that he hopes the individual responsible will
contact him so he can say his thanks. As far as Vear is
concerned, there is no blame anywhere in the story.
“It was my own carelessness for losing it.”
And he’s been careful, very careful, since the ring’s return.
“I put it on and leave it on,” he says, “and I never take it off
to put it in my pocket.”
ADVANCES IN SPORTS MEDICINE
Dr. and Mrs. Russell live in St. Catharines, Ontario,
where he has practised for more than 50 years.
Leading Edge Update
Course Code: GH700
Date: Saturday, October 15, 2005
Time: 0800-1630h
Tuition: $250 Chiropractors & Physicians
$195 Technologists & Therapists
$95 Residents & Students
Dr. David Rosebush (Class of ’95)
Dr. Rosebush graduated in May 2005 from McMaster
University’s Department of Medicine. He has accepted
a residency position at McMaster in family medicine and is
looking forward to combining a chiropractic practice with
a medical practice in the future. Rosebush currently lives
in Guelph with his wife, Susanna, and their two children,
Lincoln, 5, and Aiden, 4. He plans to practise in Guelph at
the completion of his medical training in 2007.
The Return of the Ring
The saga of Dr. Herbert Vear’s wandering ring goes back
almost 30 years. But the real story begins in February,
2005, when a mysterious package arrived on the desk
of CMCC president Dr. Jean Moss. The sealed envelope
bore no return address; its place of origin was deliberately
obscured. Inside was an anonymous message, a $20
bill—and a CMCC graduation ring stamped Class of
1949. An unsigned note asked that the ring be forwarded
to Dr. Herbert Vear, wherever he might be.
“I lost that ring so long ago,” says Vear, who graduated with
the class of ’49, “that I’d just about forgotten I ever had it.”
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RESEARCH
ROUNDUP
Students Benefit from Growing Opportunities
In 2005, CMCC
once again began
the summer with a
solid list of research
accomplishments.
A highlight is the
Canadian Institute
of Health Research
(CIHR)/CMCC
Summer Research
Awards. Dr. Kim
Dr. Kim Humphreys, dean of graduate
Humphreys, dean of
education and research programs
graduate education
and research
programs at CMCC, recently announced this year’s
six recipients: Brodie Nadeau, Carole Smith, Nenos
Damerchie, Dianna Bakalovski, Heather Hanson, and
Aliya Giga.
CIHR/CMCC Summer Research
grants provide a stipend to support
students over the summer. For the
summer of 2005, two students
will be completely supported by
CIHR, one by CIHR and CMCC
together, and the remaining three
by CMCC. “These awards provide
undergraduates with their first
experience in health research
through a number of important
faculty projects,” explains Dr.
Cameron McDermaid, CMCC’s
research administrator. “They
underscore our commitment to the
future of chiropractic research.”
Programs like this make a difference, for both faculty and
students. “It’s a unique opportunity for an educational
experience,” says
McDermaid. “We’ve found
that students in the summer
awards program typically
go on to win competitive
research awards at a later
date for their own work.”
It’s too soon to say if this
year’s winners will be the
bright lights in chiropractic
research in the future. “But
they’re certainly acquiring
the building blocks that
future research careers are
made of.”
CMCC’s researchers present at conferences worldwide. Above, Dr. Sandy Sajko,
CMCC resident, presents his poster presentation at this year’s ACC/RAC conference in
Las Vegas. CMCC sent 20 delegates and helped to plan and coordinate the proceedings.
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Dr. Cameron McDermaid,
research administrator
To illustrate the cascading
effects of award programs
like these, two of this
year’s winners are also
beneficiaries of previous
competitions. In 2004,
Brodie Nadeau and
Carole Smith each won
a CIHR/CMCC Student
Research Award. Now,
Smith is paired with Dr.
Gabrielle van der Velde,
and will be studying
patients’ assessments of neck pain treatment. Nadeau
will spend the summer of 2005 working with Drs. Julita
Injeyan and Stephen Injeyan on an ongoing study of the
effects of spinal manipulation on the immune system,
what Humphreys calls an exciting and “potentially huge”
investigation. “What they’ve been able to show so far is
that manipulation has an effect on decreasing the body’s
inflammatory response,” he notes.
Important as they are, the Summer Research Awards
are just one facet of CMCC’s commitment to expanding
the profession’s body of knowledge. And it’s a
commitment that continues to pay off. For example,
Rob Rodine (class of 2007) has just been awarded
a summer studentship by the CIHR Institute of
Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, which will place
him at the Institute for Work & Health working with
Dr. Jill Hayden and Dr. Pierre Côté. “It’s a highly
productive research environment, a great opportunity
for him,” says McDermaid.
Year III student
Mae Chan has
recently received the
Ontario Chiropractic
Association
(OCA) CMCC
Student Research
Assistant Award,
offered annually to
recognize academic
excellence and
promote chiropractic
Dr. Silvano Mior, CMCC professor
research. Perhaps not
surprisingly, Chan won a 2004 CIHR/CMCC Summer
Research Award and spent part of 2004 working on
Dr. Silvano Mior’s Ontario Chiropractic Demographic
Study. Mior’s project measures how collaboration among
health care disciplines improves patient care.
“Having the opportunity to work in research last year
definitely helped with the OCA application,” says Chan,
who has clearly demonstrated a longstanding interest
in research. During her undergraduate years, Chan was
a researcher in the Department of Nutritional Sciences
at the University of Toronto. She took a year off prior
to attending CMCC to do more research at Toronto’s
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care. “It’s important for
the profession to keep moving forward,” she says. “And
Mae Chan, Year III CMCC student
good research helps foster crucial collaboration with
other heath care disciplines.”
Chan says she is especially proud of the work she did on
the Ontario Chiropractic Demographic Study. The study
now has over 40 chiropractors actively participating, as
well as 20 physicians. “Basically, we’re trying to show
how collaboration improves patient care,” she says.
Researchers benefit from student participation too, as
Chan’s supervisor will attest. “Mae was instrumental in
helping convert the raw data,” says Mior, “which in turn
helped facilitate the next stage of statistical analysis. Her
work in processing outcome-measures will be used to
assess patients’ perceptions of the care being delivered
by chiropractors and physicians during the course of the
study.” It’s only mid-way through the project, he says, but
already he is seeing strong evidence that collaboration is
of benefit to patients.
CMCC’s research is also focusing on the merits of
pooling health care resources at the graduate level.
Under the guidance of Dr. Peter Diakow, director of
Graduate Studies, CMCC clinical science graduate
students are now part of an orthopedic research group
at Hamilton General Hospital. “This rotation provides
excellent interdisciplinary collaboration and increases the
productivity of the profession’s future researchers,” says
Diakow. In his capacity as dean, Humphreys visited the
Hamilton hospital and research group this spring.
“I was impressed with what a great opportunity this is
for the future.”
The horizons for chiropractic research are continually
expanding. As study after study rolls out, the profession,
along with its patients, will continue to benefit.
“CMCC’s research will continue to push the front
forward,” says Humphreys. “We remain committed to it.”
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CAMPAIGN
Chiropractic Patient Leaves Generous Bequest
On a late-spring day in 1988, a patient went to visit
his chiropractor asking for some special advice. James
Durham was a fruit farmer from Beamsville, Ontario;
he’d been seeing Dr. David West (class of ’67 and
CMCC board member through the 1970s) for the
better part of a decade. In those days, West was an avid
participant in CMCC’s annual Backs in Motion Run/
Walk. Every year West would run the race, and every
year Durham would sponsor him for $25. But on this
day Durham was interested in something else. He was
thinking of drawing up a will, he said, and he wanted
West’s opinion as both his friend and his chiropractor on
drawing up a list of beneficiaries.
West knew that Durham was unmarried and that he had no
heirs. “I suggested the local hospital and some charities,”
he recalls. “I also said he might consider the Canadian
Memorial Chiropractic College.” Durham had some followup questions on his next visit. But that was all he asked.
“I treated Mr. Durham for another 10 years and we never
again discussed it,” says West. “He was a very private man.”
James Durham passed away in 2003. In the spring of
2005, West learned that his former patient had left a
bequest to CMCC for $180,000. “As I said, he was a
soft-spoken, private person. He kept his deep thoughts to
himself. I guess maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised.”
Mr. Allen Stern, CMCC’s vice-president of institutional
advancement, says this is not the first time this has
happened. “Sometimes practitioners have patients for many
years and these individuals reach a stage in life where
they have to make some serious decisions.” Stern adds
that occasionally patients will ask their chiropractors for
advice about what to do with their estates. “And sometimes
these chiropractors will identify CMCC as a potential
beneficiary.” He welcomes any chiropractors who find
themselves facing a situation like this to call his office at
416-482-2340 ext. 215 for information or support.
Newfoundland Chiropractors Commit to Capital Campaign
Dr. Keith Cassell, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Chiropractic Association, presents the first installment of a $10,000 pledge to Dr. Jean Moss
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ALUMNI
PROFILE
Dr. Chris Oswald Takes on Ergonomic Design
“After you’ve been in chiropractic for 17 years,” says Dr.
Chris Oswald (class of ‘88), “you come to realize that
patients can hold their adjustments better and enjoy a
higher quality of life if they’ve had a good night’s sleep.”
That same sort of benefit, he discovered, could also
follow from paying attention to the ergonomic quality of
the chairs his patients sit on all day at work. His curiosity
aroused by his chiropractic discoveries, Oswald began
testing a range of pillows, mattresses, and office chairs
available to the patients of his office. He was frustrated
to discover that many did not hold up to the claims
made by their manufacturers. Oswald decided to see if
he could make them better. Today, he and his partner
Greg Bandler manufacture and supply pillows, beds, and
chairs to clients as varied as Shoppers Drug Mart and
The Sutton Place Hotels.
In the beginning, “pure frustration” led him to create
his own line of products, as well as a desire for clinical
evidence to support what was good and what was not
a key factor in ergonomic design. Oswald began by
examining pillows. “What I wanted was one product
that was adaptable to at least 95% of the population, a
product that would enable any practitioner to fit their
patients more easily and not have to buy 16 different
sizes.” He discovered that no such thing existed. “That’s
why other products are marketed in so many different
sizes and types. There are so many variations it’s
impossible for clinics to keep them all in stock.”
more testing, chose the best product, worked with the
manufacturer to improve the design—and now we’re
marketing the Dr. Oswald Personal Bed.” The Sutton
Place Hotels have recently introduced Oswald’s bed in
some of their locations. “They’re on the verge of doing
the same with our pillows,” he says.
The partners then began conducting some “serious
R&D” with respect to ergonomic chairs, says Oswald. In
this case, there was a good deal of published information
to assist their efforts. “We came up with two strong
leaders in that category and started to work with their
manufacturers.” Once again, the Shoppers Drug Mart
chain agreed to market the new product. “Shoppers Drug
Mart wants to be a leader in proactive and preventative
health care products.”
Patients arriving at Oswald’s Toronto office in recent
months have jokingly asked whether he is running a
chiropractic clinic or a retail ergonomics store. The
answer, he tells them quite seriously, is both—one led
directly to the other. “I’m more effective at helping
people get well and stay active since I have incorporated
solid ergonomics into my practice.”
Oswald entered into partnership with Bandler, a
branding expert, and they designed a pillow with a small
and a large side to accommodate both back and side
sleepers. “The difference in our pillow is that the trough
allows the head to lie flat,” he says. Then they originated
the “two-riser system,” which is a slightly denser slab
of memory foam inserted under the pillow. “It really is
beneficial for people who are side sleepers with wide
shoulders. Research has proven 88.7% of [the pillow’s]
users have significantly less neck pain, shoulder
stiffness, and dizziness, and fewer headaches.” Oswald’s
ergo~health™ Personal Pillow is now stocked by 900
Shoppers Drug Mart stores across Canada. “That opened
up a lot of doors for us,” he says.
Turning their attention to mattresses, Oswald and
Bandler learned that no one was doing chiropractic
or medical testing as a component part of the design
of these products. “We did a lot of work with Sleep
Country Canada,” Oswald says. “Then we conducted
Dr. Chris Oswald, CMCC graduate
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CLASS
OF
2005
Graduates
First-Ever Convocation from New Campus
On Friday, June 24, following their four years
of dedicated study and clinical training, 151
graduates from across Canada and around
the world walked the stage at CMCC’s
60th Convocation to receive their Doctor of
Chiropractic diplomas. The class of 2005 now
joins the ranks of alumni going back to 1949.
Over 5,700 chiropractors have graduated
from CMCC in its 60-year history. The class
valedictorian was Michael Jeremy Sommers.
CMCC was pleased to welcome Mr. Allan
Freedman, CMCC faculty member, as keynote
speaker. He spoke passionately about the
importance of leading a balanced work/family
lifestyle and shared his own recollections as an
instructor of the class. The ceremony was followed
by a reception at CMCC’s campus, where the new
graduates and family members toured the facilities
and mingled with faculty. Next year’s Convocation
will be on June 16.
New grads Hedy Ranjijifroody (left) and Shyla Robertson
Valedictorian Michael Sommers receives the 2005 Judy Ladell
Memorial Award, presented by Dr. Derrill Ladell
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(Left to right) Back row: Blake Denbow and Jamie Devassy. Front row: Imraan Alibhai,
Lindsey Allard, Peter Angerilli, Robin Apel, and Robin Armstrong take the chiropractic oath
The graduating
class of 2005
Dr. Jean Moss presents
Jory Basso with his diploma
(Left to right) Ann Karmy, Sigmund Kaw,
Tanya Kent, Sanaz Khalili, and Jessica Kim
Graduate Andrew
Brubacher receives
his diploma
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I N
M E M O R I A M
Grant, Dr. A. Gordon
(Class of 1951)
Passed away June 15, 2005
Holm, Dr. Harry O.
(Class of 1955)
Passed away April 14, 2005
Roussel, Dr. Marcel
(Class of 1962)
Passed away April 2005
Thompson, Dr. William R. T. (Tom)
(Class of 1971)
Passed away March 26, 2005
Correction
In the Spring 2005 issue of PrimaryContact, the photograph of Dr. Harvey Murphy (class of 1949) was incorrect. The
1949 yearbook photograph run in error was of his classmate, Dr. William Murphy. We sincerely regret the mistake.
D O N A T I O N S
Awards and Scholarships
In Memoriam Donations
CMCC John Duckworth Award
Mrs. Gayle Dennison
John M. Wallace Scholarship Trust
Dr. Thomas F. Kerr
OPTP Conservative Care Specialists
Dr. Doug Alderson
Dr. Elizabeth Anderson-Peacock
Dr. Fred Ashbury
Dr. Jan Barnsley
Dr. Ronald J. Batte
Ms. Elena Branin
Brant County Chiropractic Society
Mrs. Marlene Brickman
British Columbia Chiropractic Association
Dr. Douglas M. Brown
CMCC Class of 1970
College of Chiropractors of Ontario
Dr. Michael J. Columbus
Ms. Carol Crystal
Dr. John P. DeFinney
Dr. Edward L. Demchuk
Family Chiropractic Centre
Dr. Adrian S. Grice
Grice Chiropractic Clinic
Dr. Robert D. Haig
Dr. Neil S. Harris
General Donations
CMCC Students’ Council
Riverfront Medical Services Ltd.
Xtron Imaging Inc.
Dr. Jeffrey L. Brown
Dr. Esmail Shahidi
Dr. Terry R. Yochum
Dr. E. Kitchener Hayman
Mrs. Eileen Hugli
Dr. Stephen H. Injeyan
Dr. Joseph R. Kelly
Dr. Paul A. Korbelas
London Chiropractic Society
Dr. Rich Luck
Dr. Sandra J. Malpass
Dr. Brian J. McLaughlin
Ms. Randy Mellon
Dr. Silvano A. Mior
Dr. Michael F. Moreira
Dr. Jean A. Moss
Dr. Laurence G. Reynolds
Dr. Leo K. Rosenberg
Dr. Igor Steiman
Ms. Pearla Taylor
Dr. D. Verne Thomson
Dr. David I. West
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