CHIROPRACTOR WINS INTERNATIONAL SPINAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) announced its fellowship award winners for 2011 at its 38th annual meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14-18, 2011. Among them was Arizona-based chiropractor and biomechanist, Dr. Chris Colloca, who was awarded the 2011 MacNab LaRocca Fellowship. The $10,000 prize is awarded by the society each year to promote and extend research activities into the cause and cure of low back pain. More specifically, the fellowship is awarded to applicants who have completed formal training in a medical or allied specialty and are involved in an inves-tigation that will involve travel to a location other than their own. Applicants should be sponsored by, or be a member of, the ISSLS. The fellowship will provide support for Dr. Colloca to travel later this year to Adelaide, Australia, to collaborate with Robert J. Moore, PhD, to study intervertebral disc re-generation at the Adelaide Centre for Spinal Research, in co-operation with the Institute for Medical and Veterinary Science, a division of the governmental authority South Australia Pathology. Dr. Colloca has published a number of scientific papers together with the orthopedic team from Adelaide, study-ing dynamic spinal stiffness assessments and biomechanical and neurophysiological responses to spinal manipulation. Dr. Colloca gained membership to ISSLS in 2004, and is one of only a handful of chiropractors who are members of the prestigious society. Dr. Colloca has attended the ISSLS annual meeting to present his research nearly every year since 1996. Former ISSLS MacNab LaRocca Fellowship winners in-clude spinal research notables such as Malcolm Pope, James Weinstein, Bjorn Rydevik, Manohar Panjabi, Tapio Vede-man and Greg Kawchuk. Dr. Colloca will present a report of his research during the ISSLS meeting in Amsterdam, The Biomechanist and chiro-Netherlands, in association practor, Chris Colloca, is with Spineweek May 28-June the 2011 recipient of the ISSLS MacNab LaRocca 1, 2012. Colloca will also serve Fellowship. as the Society’s local host for its 40th Annual meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2013. A distinguished scientist, Dr. Colloca has multidisciplinary research collaborations around the world, his award-win-ning original research has been presented at numerous international scientific conferences resulting in more than 50 scientific journal publications. He currently serves as a reviewer for a number scientific journals, including the Journal of Biomechanics, Clinical Biomechanics, Spine, and European Spine Journal, and Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics , among others. Dr. Colloca has given hundreds of lectures to thousands of chiropractors and medical physicians on six continents. • news www.canadianchiropractor.ca Canadian ChiropraCtor | JULY/AUGUST 2011 • 31
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