If not now, when? 2020 Conference

Ulrik graduated from AECC University College in 1991 and has spent much of his career working with elite sport. He was 1st team chiropractor to Leicester Tigers Rugby Club for 12 seasons before shifting shape of ball and is currently at Leicester City FC.  He also worked as part of the official medical team of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. He is a regular feature at international conferences and runs several seminar programmes focused on hands on techniques. 

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In October 2023, Tim Button became President of the British Chiropractic Association after six years at the BCA as Treasurer and Vice President, throughout which he worked closely with the BCA’s Past President, Catherine Quinn, to meet our Vision for chiropractic to be integral to UK healthcare. Tim is a clinic owner who led much of the work on COVID-19 documentation and can be relied upon by BCA members to bring new thinking and energy to BCA endeavours.

In his clinical life, Tim has established Cleve Chiropractic over the last 19 years to the multidisciplinary clinic it is today, where he now leads a highly experienced and knowledgeable team. In 2014, he created a physiotherapy, exercise and rehabilitation clinic to run alongside the chiropractic clinic.

Catherine Quinn (MChiro DC FRCC) was President of the BCA from October 2017 to October 2023, leading the Association through a range of opportunities and challenges. Catherine has been in private practice since graduating from the AECC in 2012 after completing a BSc in Sports Science. She is the Queens Park Rangers FC chiropractor and is in private practice at Cleve Chiropractic, Bristol.

Catherine has delivered keynote lectures on the role of chiropractic within multidisciplinary healthcare teams to both the UK Sports Medicine community at the Football Medical and Performance Association, and Internationally at FICS. She has spoken widely about the need to professionalise chiropractic, ensuring that good governance gives us a solid foundation to do so, the need to support and nurture our future leaders and the value of integrative and collaborative healthcare.

Dr. Greg Kawchuk DC, PhD is a professor in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta. Greg is a CMCC graduate (1990) who practiced chiropractic for 15 years in multidisciplinary settings before becoming a full-time researcher. He was the recipient of the first chiropractic research chair in Canada and in 2004, was recruited to the University of Alberta as the Canada Research Chair in Spinal Function. Dr. Kawchuk’s research interests are focused on back pain and spine function. His work spans basic science, clinical trials and implementation studies. Competitive agencies that have supported Dr Kawchuk’s work include CIHR, NSERC and NIH. His most recent work has appeared in The Spine Journal, Pain, Scientific Reports and PLOS One. Dr. Kawchuk is one of three founding members of CARL, the Chiropractic Academy for Research Leadership, a mentoring program for early career scientists. He is presently leading the new GLA:D Back initiative in Canada.

Dan graduated from AECC University College in June 2020 having spent 5 years studying there. During his time at AECC he represented the student body as the Academic Officer for a year and then took appointment as President of the Students’ Union for 2 further years.

Since graduating Dan has started work with Chiro Health in Colchester, Essex and like his peers, is trying to navigate the ongoing pandemic situation as a new graduate.

Katie de Luca is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Chiropractic at Macquarie University. She is on the editorial boards of Chiropractic & Manual Therapies and JMPT, and is a Senior CARL Fellow. She is a board member for the Chiropractic Australia Research Foundation and is the Research Chair for Sports Chiropractic Australia. Her research interests focus on the epidemiology and management of musculoskeletal conditions, with expertise in the elderly. She leads the Australian arm of the BAck Complaints in the Elderly study:Chiropractic, an internationally collaborative longitudinal study on back pain in older adults.

Jesper Dahl DC CCSP CCEP MRCC FRCC (sports)

For 7 years Jesper worked full-time with professional golfers travelling to events on both the European and US PGA Tours.

Coordinating all aspects of therapy, diet, conditioning and training schedules; it soon became clear that ‘the basics’ done well was central to the principle of adding even a small margin to the performance of already top-rated athletes.

He travels less now but still works with a few top-level professional golfers in the same capacity.

He still talks a better game of golf than the one he plays.

Jesper also helped establish the physical therapy department at the Kent Institute of Medicine & Surgery (KIMS) a private tertiary hospital in Maidstone, Kent.  

The out-patient department has representation of all the MSK specialisms available in the UK working together to develop protocols for any condition ranging from post-surgical rehabilitation to the management lifestyle-related musculoskeletal conditions.

Jesper’s varied programme of lectures and seminars has been taught on five continents and in settings from national conferences to much smaller group settings.

Katherine Pohlman, D.C., M.S. Ph.D. is Director of Research at Parker University and a senior fellow of the Chiropractic Academy of Research and Leadership (CARL) program. She received Researcher of the Year in 2020 from the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), is the current Vice President of the ACA’s Council on Women’s Health, and has served as Vice President of the ACA’s Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics. Dr. Pohlman received her Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.) degree and M.S. in Clinical Research from Palmer College of Chiropractic and her Ph.D. in Pediatrics from the University of Alberta.

Dr. Pohlman joined Parker University in 2015 with nine years of prior experience as a research manager and scientist, including the first project manager for Palmer Center of Chiropractic Research. In that position, she managed several federally-funded research studies, including the largest randomized controlled trial in the military for chiropractic, which was awarded from the Department of Defense. As lead study coordinator, Dr. Pohlman also has directed the world’s largest study evaluating patient safety among spinal manipulation therapy providers, which comprised a series of projects funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her research interests have focused not only on study methodology, but also on the safety and effectiveness of chiropractic care in special populations including individuals suffering from chronic pain, children, and pregnant/post-partum women.

Andreas Eklund graduated from AECC 2002 and is a co-owner of two multidisciplinary rehab units employing a total of 50 persons.

He earned his PhD degree 2016, and the title of his thesis was “Recurrent and persistent low back pain – course and prevention”. He currently works part time as a researcher at Karolinska Institutet along his clinical duties.  At the moment he also serves as the chair of the scientific committee of the Swedish Chiropractic Association.

His research has mainly focused on Maintenance Care, management of recurrent/persistent pain, psychological risk factors and has an interest in clinical outcome research applicable to the practicing chiropractor. He frequently lectures internationally on topics related to his research area and has a genuine interest for education, dissemination and implementation of research in clinical settings.

2016 he was awarded “Chiropractor of the Year” by the Swedish Chiropractic Association and won the EAC Jean Robert research award (1st prize). In 2019 he was awarded the Scott Haldeman Award for outstanding research at the WFC congress in Berlin for his work on Chiropractic Maintenance Care.

He was one of the 13 fellows of the initial cohort of the Chiropractic Academy of Research Leadership (CARL).

In October 2023, Tim Button became President of the British Chiropractic Association after six years at the BCA as Treasurer and Vice President, throughout which he worked closely with the BCA’s Past President, Catherine Quinn, to meet our Vision for chiropractic to be integral to UK healthcare. Tim is a clinic owner who led much of the work on COVID-19 documentation and can be relied upon by BCA members to bring new thinking and energy to BCA endeavours.

In his clinical life, Tim has established Cleve Chiropractic over the last 19 years to the multidisciplinary clinic it is today, where he now leads a highly experienced and knowledgeable team. In 2014, he created a physiotherapy, exercise and rehabilitation clinic to run alongside the chiropractic clinic.

Catherine Quinn (MChiro DC FRCC) was President of the BCA from October 2017 to October 2023, leading the Association through a range of opportunities and challenges. Catherine has been in private practice since graduating from the AECC in 2012 after completing a BSc in Sports Science. She is the Queens Park Rangers FC chiropractor and is in private practice at Cleve Chiropractic, Bristol.

Catherine has delivered keynote lectures on the role of chiropractic within multidisciplinary healthcare teams to both the UK Sports Medicine community at the Football Medical and Performance Association, and Internationally at FICS. She has spoken widely about the need to professionalise chiropractic, ensuring that good governance gives us a solid foundation to do so, the need to support and nurture our future leaders and the value of integrative and collaborative healthcare.

Ulrik graduated from AECC University College in 1991 and has spent much of his career working with elite sport. He was 1st team chiropractor to Leicester Tigers Rugby Club for 12 seasons before shifting shape of ball and is currently at Leicester City FC.  He also worked as part of the official medical team of the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. He is a regular feature at international conferences and runs several seminar programmes focused on hands on techniques. 

READ MORE ABOUT MY TALK HERE.