February 2005

Palmer to make 19 presentations at ACC-RAC

FEB. 2, 2005 — Faculty and staff from the three Palmer College of Chiropractic campuses will make 19 presentations at the Association of Chiropractic Colleges ­­– Research Agenda Conference (ACC – RAC) March 17-19, 2005, in Las Vegas.

The 10 platform and nine poster presentations were selected for the conference through a peer-review process. “We are proud of this impressive list of scholarly works coming from Palmer for the upcoming ACC-RAC conference,” said Vice President for Research William Meeker, DC, MPH. “I congratulate my colleagues for their hard work, culminating in acceptance by the peer-review process for this prestigious conference.”

The theme of this year’s ACC-RAC is “Emerging Research and Training Opportunities.” The conference is jointly sponsored by the Bureau of Health Professions of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, the Association of Chiropractic Colleges, the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research at Palmer College of Chiropractic and the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. This year will mark the 10th anniversary of the Research Agenda Conference.

The platform presentations from Palmer faculty and staff include:

• “Chest Pain: Report from a Multidisciplinary Focus Group,” Monica Smith, DC, PhD; Dana Lawrence, DC; Robert M. Rowell, DC;

• “Three-dimensional Contact Loads of Chiropractic Students Performing Posterior to Anterior Thoracic Adjustments,” Laura C. Petrie, BSE; Maruti R. Gudavalli, PhD; Robert M. Rowell, DC;

• Relief of Depressive Symptoms in an Elderly Patient with Low Back Pain, Robert M. Rowell, DC; Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD;

• Intra- and Interexaminer Reliability of a New Hand-held Device for Measuring Lumbar Posteroanterior Stiffness, Edward F. Owens Jr., MS, DC; James DeVocht, DC, PhD; Maruti R. Gudavalli, PhD; David G. Wilder, PhD;

• “Chiropractor Contact and Patient-Table Support Loads During Lumbar Side Posture Adjustment.” Maruti R. Gudavalli, PhD; Robert M. Rowell, DC;

• “Static Vertebral Position Alters Lumbar Paraspinal Muscle Spindle Sensitivity,” Weiqing Ge, PhD; Joel G. Pickar, DC, PhD;

• “Attributes of the Effective Clinical Teacher,” John Stites, DC, DACBR;

• “Development of Technology for Video-Enhanced Demonstration of Chiropractic Manipulation Loads,” Maruti R. Gudavalli, PhD;

• “Influence of an Information Literacy Course on Students’ Informational Search Behavior.” Dan Weinert, DC, M.S., DACRB; Erin Palmer, BS;

• “Chiropractic and Culture Trends: Philosophy and Health for the Age Wave,” Cynthia Lund, CT, ALCP (Hon.);

The accepted poster presentations from Palmer faculty and staff include:

• “Filling in the Gaps: An Interactive Research Project Poster at ACC/RAC,” Edward F. Owens Jr., MS, DC; Kathryn Hoiriis, DC;

• “Determination of the Distance Between Adjacent Lumbar Vertebrae by an Ultrasonic Based Imaging System: A Feasibility Study,” Ariel Medina, BS, Ram Gudavalli, PhD; P.K. Raju, PhD; Gregory Cramer, DC, PhD;

• “Survey on Manual Adjustive Procedures in the Chiropractic Classroom Setting,” Robert Cooperstein, MA, DC; Elaine Morschhauser, DC;

• “Active Learning Sessions (ALS) as a Method of Teaching Critical Thinking in Reaching Clinical Impressions,” Medhat M. Alattar, MB,BCh, MD, DC;

• “Practical Quiz, a Method of Reinforcement,” John W. Strazewski, DC;

• “Pilot Study on Chiropractic Management Concerns for Treating Groups with High Predisposition of Diabetes,” Dennis P. Lopez, DC, DABCO; Terry Kile, PhD;

• “Effects of Collaborative Testing on Student Satisfaction Survey,” Michael L. Bovee, DC, MSEd; Donald F. Gran, DC, MsEd;

• “Enhancing Chiropractic Students’ Confidence and Comfort in Caring for Aging Patients: A Multi-factorial Approach and Assessment,” Lisa Zaynab Killinger, DC;

• “The Effects of Lumbar Spine Manipulation on Motor Evoked Potentials Recorded from Human Lumbar Erector Spinae Muscles: a Pilot Study,” J. Donald Dishman, DC, MSc; Douglas Greco, DC, MSc; Jeanmarie Burke, PhD.

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