news CHIROPRACTIC UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN From April 8 to 13, the Chiropractic Association of South Africa (CASA) hosted the World Federation of Chiropractic’s (WFC) 12th Biennial Congress, titled Chiropractic Under the African Sun, at the International Convention Center in Dur-ban, South Africa. More than 750 delegates from 42 countries attended the Congress, the largest and most impressive meeting ever held in Africa. Many rated it “the best ever” chiropractic event in their lives. “This was a wonderful Congress in very, very many re-spects,” said Dr. Bill Meeker, president, West Campus Palmer College, one of the major sponsors together with Neuro-mechanical Innovations and Foot Levelers. Beyond outstanding academic and social programs, there were many special celebrations and events to commemo-rate the Silver Anniversary of the WFC, which was formed 25 years ago in 1988. These included: s A video from researchers worldwide honouring Dr. Scott Haldeman, who was retiring as chair of the WFC Research Council after 25 years of distinguished leadership. s The renaming of the original research awards as the NCMIC Louis Sportelli Research Awards to honour both Dr. Sportelli for his career of leadership in build-ing research capacity for the profession, and the NC-MIC Group Inc. for its long-term funding of the main awards. From the 174 research submissions received, first and second prizes of $12,000 USD and $7,500 USD, respectively, were awarded for research papers from research teams affiliated with the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) and led by Dr. Jessica Wong and Dr. Jairus Quesnele. s The launch of an illustrated history titled The Global Advance of Chiropractic: The World Federation of Chiropractic 1988-2013, authored by Dr. Reed Phil-lips. This history, documenting the international ex-pansion of the chiropractic profession during the past generation, is of exceptional quality, contains over 600 images and may be purchased through the WFC’s website, www.wfc.org. The presentaiton of Honour Awards for outstanding service towards the international growth of the chi-ropractic profession to Kent Greenawalt, CEO, Foot Levelers, USA; Dr. Jean Moss, president, CMCC, Can-ada; and Dr. Anthony Metcalfe of the U.K., a past-president of the British Chiropractic Association, the European Chiropractors’ Union (ECU) and the WFC. One important goal of holding this WFC Congress in Africa was the formation of a regional organization to repre-sent and advance the chiropractic profession in Africa, the only world region without such a regional organization. That was achieved with the formation of the African Chiropractic Federation (ACF) at the WFC Assembly by chiropractic dele-gates from 13 nations – Botswana, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The first ACF seminar meeting is to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from April 3 to 5, 2014, hosted by the Chiropractic Association of Kenya. “Our Silver Anniversary Congress was such a success be-cause of many partners and individuals,” said WFC presi-dent Dr. Dennis Richards of Australia, “but none more so that the members of the CASA Local Planning Committee led by Dr. Caileen Walker and Dr. Reg Engelbrecht. The WFC and everyone who attended this historic meeting are greatly indebted to them.” Special thanks are also due to many exhibitors and spon-sors, led by Platinum Sponsor Neuromechanical Innovations (Dr. Christopher Colloca, president). Many of these donated prizes to a fundraising raffle, which raised over $5,000 to support the inspirational work of Sister Brigitte Yengo, DC, MD, at her orphanage at Brazzaville in the Congo (www. SisterYengosChildren.org). The next WFC Congress is to be held in Athens, Greece, from May 14 to 16, 2015, together with the annual con-vention of the ECU and hosted by the Hellenic Chiroprac-tic Association. WFC member associations in the Asia and Pacific Regions are being invited to bid to host the 2017 Congress. s NUCCA RECOGNIZES CANADIAN DCs On April 19, two Canadian DCs were awarded distinctions by the National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association (NUCCA). Dr. Michael Foran of Vancouver, British Columbia, was awarded Canada’s fourth NUCCA board certification. Dr. Foran (Palmer West ’92) is a second generation NUCCA chiropractor. His father, Dr. Patrick Foran (CMCC ’59, 1935-2006), was a NUCCA chiropractor and on the Canadian Chiropractor magazine editorial advisory board. Dr. Gordon Hasick of Calgary Alberta was awarded the Ralph Gregory award. Dr. Ralph Gregory, DC (1912-1990), developed the NUCCA technique; the award named for him is received for lifetime achievement and contribution to the use and development of the NUCCA technique. Dr. Hasick graduated from Palmer Iowa (’80) and became NUCCA board-certified in 1989. He is currently involved with the Phase Contrast Migraine Headache research project at the University of Calgary, Foothills Hospital, the University of Florida (Miami) and the Upper Cervical Re-search Foundation (UCRF). Dr. Hasick is also the founder and president of the Dr. Ralph R. Gregory Memorial Foun-dation Canada. Dr. Foran stated, “My daughter Lauren was born one month after I completed Part 2, so, as they say, life is liter-ally what happens while you’re busy making other plans. I dedicate this to her and my father.” Canadian Chiropractor would like to congratulate Drs. Fo-ran and Hasick on their accomplishments. 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