Canadian Chiropractic Convention 2010 Clinical Panelists Sunny Rathore, DC Dr. Rathore graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1994; following this he completed his specialties in the rehabilitation sciences in 2000 and in chiropractic orthopaedics in 2004. He completed the micro-program in insurance medicine and medico-legal expertise at the University of Montreal in 2009. He is a member of the Specialities Planning Committee of the Canadian Federation of Chiropractic and Educational Accrediting Boards. He is the second vice-president of the CCO(C) and the president of the CCRS(C). He is the director of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation clinic in Mississauga, Ontario. Igor Steiman, DC Dr. Steiman graduated from CMCC in 1981, having earned a masters degree in physiology at the University of Toronto in 1978. He became a Fellow of the CCS(C) in 1986. He completed certification in clinical education through the University of Toronto’s Centre for Faculty Development, and in inter-professional education and collaborative care. Dr. Steiman has been in private practice in multidisciplinary settings and a CMCC faculty member since 1981. Since 2004 Dr. Steiman has been seconded to the chiropractic clinic of St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. He is involved in instructing and mentoring students and residents of various health care disciplines. He serves as a chiropractic professional liaison and education leader, and he is part of the award-winning Inter-professional Education Working Group. He was awarded the Ontario Chiropractic Association Professional Service Award in 2008. Eldon Tunks, MD Dr. Tunks is emeritus professor of psychiatry, McMaster University, Hamilton; and is president of the Canadian Academy of Pain Management. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of Canadian Pain Society (2006). He practices pain management at the Regional Rehabilitation Center of Hamilton General Hospital. Howard Vernon DC, PhD Dr. Vernon graduated from CMCC (1977), completed his Fellowship in clinical science in 1980 and received his PhD from the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK in 2003. He has been a faculty member at CMCC since 1977, and he is currently a full professor in the division of research. Dr. Vernon published the first outcome measure for assessing disability due to neck pain – the Neck Disability Index in 1991. He received the FCER Researcher of the Year Award 1993, the CCA Researcher of the Year Award 1995 and was chair Consortium of Canadian Chiropractic Research Centres 1997 – 2004. He is currently the principal investigator of an NIH/CIHR-funded project to validate a sham cervical spinal manipulation for use in clinical trials and a co-investigator on a study of the development of an animal model of lumbar facet joint injury, pain and arthritis. BIOGRAPHIES 36 Delegate Guide
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