Dr. Carlo Ammendolia Dr. André Bussières Editorial Board and has written over 20 scientific and clinical articles and three book chapters. In addition, he was the principal investigator of three diagnostic imaging practice guidelines for muscu-loskeletal complaints in adults. Dr. Bus-sières was the recipient of the 2009 CCA 9Õ}ÊÛiÃÌ}>ÌÀÊÜ>À`]Ê>`Ê >ÃÊÜÊ a prestigious CIHR Fellowship Award in the Area of Primary Care, as well as the distinguished KT Canada Fellowship Award. He is also a full professor at the 1ÛiÀÃÌjÊ `ÕÊ +ÕjLiVÊ Ê DÊ /ÀÃ,ÛmÀiÃÊ 1+/,®°Ê / iÊ +Õii½ÃÊ 1ÛiÀÃÌÞÊ �a;�a;, Ê ,i -search Professorship in Rehabilitation Therapy has its home in the Faculty of Health Sciences in the School of Reha-bilitation Therapy and is in the process of recruiting for the new Professorship. Thanks go to Dr. Allan Gotlib for being the first to submit these Pinnacles of Excel-lence. Left to right: Strength coach Charles Castonguay, taekwondo athlete François Coulombe-Fortier and Dr. Nadia Richer. CCRF Professorship in Spine, which has its home in the university’s Faculty of Medicine, to Dr. Carlo Ammendolia, DC, PhD. The University of Toronto is Cana-da’s largest university, and is recognized as a global leader in research and teach-ing. Dr. Carlo Ammendolia is a clinical epidemiologist and assistant professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Manage-ment and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and is also director of the Chiro-practic Spine Clinic at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital in the Rebecca MacDon-ald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases, where patients have direct ac-cess to chiropractic services in the hos-pital setting. McGill University, also one of Can- s CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR | DECEMBER 2012 ada’s leading universities, awarded the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foun-dation Professorship in Rehabilitation Epidemiology to Dr. André Bussières this year. The new McGill CCRF Research Professorship in Rehabilitation Epidemi-ology will have its home in the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Bussières is near completion of his PhD training in population health at the University of Ottawa. His PhD research thesis focuses on knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) of clinical practice guidelines, and the overall goal of his thesis project is to establish a scientific rationale for interventions to translate research findings into clinical practice. He serves as a member of the JCCA RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PARTNERSHIPS The quest to expand the profession’s re-search and interprofessional initiatives is not limited to the CCRF’s groundbreak-ing work. In 2012, the U.S. National Institutes vÊ i>Ì Ê ®Ê >Ü>À`i`Ê >Ê fÎÎ]ÈxxÊ RO1 grant (their highest level of grant and the third NIH grant CMCC has re-ceived in five years) to CMCC research-ers Drs. Howie Vernon, Jay Triano and Tony Tibbles. Their study aims to estab-lish a manipulation control that will pro-vide a baseline against which treatment outcomes may be measured. Also this past year, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and CMCC have established a joint research centre, the UOIT-CMCC Centre for the Study of Disability Prevention and Reha-bilitation, located at CMCC (CMCC’s third research centre). Dr. Pierre Côté is director of the centre, which is supported in part by >ÊfÓ°nÊÊ}À>ÌÊvÀÊÌ iÊf;ÃÌÀÞÊvÊ Finance, Financial Services Commission of Ontario, to develop a Minor Injury Treat-ment Protocol. Thank you to Dr. Jean Moss of Toronto, Ontario, for submitting these Pinnacles. As if this weren’t enough, based on the success of CMCC’s original involvement at St. Michael’s Hospital, the school was in-vited, and has joined, the Academic Family www.canadianchiropractor.ca
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