UPFRONT | News RECOGNITION Take 5 CMCC appoints new Canada Research Chair The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) has announced a new Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Disability Preven-tion and Rehabilitation has been awarded to Dr. Pierre Côté, director, UOIT-CMCC Centre for the Study of Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation. The CRC is valued at $500,000 over five years. “CMCC is delighted to learn that Dr. Pierre Côté has been awarded this chair,” said Dr. Jean Moss, presi-dent, CMCC. “This award recognizes his many contri-butions to the world of disa-bility management and reha-bilitation. I am confident that this will provide him the op-portunity to continue to ex-tend his research into key areas that will ultimately af-fect the health and well-being of Canadians. ” The primary objective of the research program led by Côté is aimed at reducing disability related to musculo-skeletal (MSK) pain in Cana-dians. The number of Cana-dians reporting a disability between 2001 and 2006 grew by 750,000 people; yet, few interventions are effective in preventing or rehabilitating MSK disabilities such as back pain, whiplash injuries and arthritis. The CMCC said through the UOIT-CMCC Centre for the Study of Disability Pre-vention and Rehabilitation that Côté and his researchers are defining best practices for the prevention and rehabili-tation of disability and con-tributing to policy develop-ment through knowledge transfer and exchange. As a Dr. Pierre Côté For more on clinical management, visit www.canadianchiropractor.ca. thousand -average annual salary of a chiropractor in Canada. thousand -the number of active chiropractors in the U.S. www.canadianchiropractor.ca 8 Canadian Chiropractor February 2014 Illustration: Brian Fray faculty member at CMCC, Côté teaches and mentors chiropractic students in both the undergraduate and grad-uate studies programs. “Back and neck pain are leading causes of disability worldwide. Yet, we know very little about the best ways to prevent disability in people with these conditions,” said Côté. “As a Canada Research Chair, I will focus on devel-oping innovative ways to re-duce the burden of disability by creating a transdiscipli-nary research program. I am very honoured and humbled by this opportunity.” Côté graduated from the CMCC in 1989. In 1996, he obtained a Master of Surgery degree from the University of Saskatchewan where he stud-ied the epidemiology of neck and back pain in the general population. He received a PhD in Epidemiology and a minor in Research Bioethics at the University of Toronto in 2002. In 2003, he was awarded a five-year New In-vestigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. NumbER CRuNCHING Job prospects 82 percentage of chiropractors who are in full-time practice, working 40 to 45 hours per week thousand estimated number of chiropractors in Canada 7 70 60
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