UPFRONT | Places and Faces Student award Benjamin De Villena, a second year student at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, has won the Canadian Chiropractic Guideline Initiative’s new student award for knowledge translation and/or imple-mentation research in the area of musculoskeletal disorders. This makes De Villena the first winner of the $500 award, which the CCGI launched in late 2016. De Villena’s submission was on “the development of patient versions of clinical practice guidelines, as well as barriers and facilitators to, and strategies for effective implemen-tation.” De Villena is the vice-president of the Interprofessional Education Council and president of the Business Club at the CMCC. Chiropractor of the Year Humanitarian of the Year The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has honoured Canadian-born Dr. Scott Haldeman (right) with its Humanitarian of the Year Award for the work he has done with World Spine Care (WSC), a not-for-profit organization that Haldeman founded in 2008. WSC’s goal is to bring sustainable, integrated, evidence-based spinal care to poor, underserved communities across the globe. Haldeman is a chiroprac-tor, a neurologist and clinical professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California-Irvine. The WSC aims to create a world in which everyone has access to the highest quality spine care possi-ble. The ACA handed out the award during its annual House of Delegates meeting in Washington, D.C., last March. ACA president Dr. David Herd (left) handed out the award. Dr. Dirk Keenan of Ottawa is the Ontario Chiropractic Association’s Chiropractor of the Year. Keenan has been in practice for 30 years and helped launch one of the first volun-teer chiropractic clinics in Canada that is operating within a community health centre. “From 1997 to 2004, Dr. Keenan worked countless hours to get the clinic off the ground and to staff and manage the program with-out compensation,” the OCA said in the Spring 2017 issue of ON Chiropractic. Through his career, Keenan has advocated for the chiro-practic profession in both the pro-vincial and national levels. Lifevision Montreal More than 400 chiropractors, chiropractic assistants, students and guests attended the 2017 Life Vision Seminar in Montreal, March 31 to April 1st. The event was held at the Hotel Bonaventure and featured more than a dozen speakers from Canada and the U.S. Life Vision is a two-day shot of high-energy, high-impact, inspirational and educational moments designed to bring current and future chiropractic leaders of all perspec-tives together to connect and recharge, organizers say. Life Vision is hosted by Life University in Atlanta. Photo credit: Øistein Holm Haagensen, WFC (Top middle) Alberta chiropractic turns 100 The Alberta College and Association of Chiropractors (ACAC) is celebrat-ing its centennial year and asking chiropractic patients to share sto-ries of healing and their experiences with chiropractic. As part of the group’s centennial celebration, it is encouraging the public to send in their chiropractic stories for a chance to win some great prizes, including a grand prize package valued at $350. “The story of www.canadianchiropractor.ca chiropractic does not only belong to chiropractors; it belongs to every Albertan positively impacted by chiropractic,” the ACAC said in a statement. Stories can be submit-ted through the ACAC centennial celebration web page. Also part of this year’s celebration is the ACAC Centennial Gala Dinner and Dance, held Saturday, May 13th, at the Calgary Commonwealth Centre in Calgary. May 2017 Canadian Chiropractor 13
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