Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD, is a 1976 graduate of National College of Chiropractic and practiced full-time for 12 years. In 1991 she earned a PhD in Preventive Medicine from the University of Iowa. In 1991, she earned a PhD in Preventive Medicine from the University of Iowa and also became a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). She has been the primary writer of successful grant and contract proposals totaling over $5 million. She has been an author on over 60 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

In 2001 the Chiropractic Health Care Section of the American Public Health Association gave her its Distinguished Service Award, and in 2003, the American Chiropractic Association named her “Researcher of the Year.” Both these honors were awarded for her work in the area of public health, health promotion and prevention.

In 2003, she was appointed the chiropractic representative on the National Advisory Committee for Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professions. Currently Dr. Hawk serves as the Scientific Commission Chair for the Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters, as well as the Team Lead for wellness, non-musculoskeletal conditions and special populations.

In 2005, she was named “Researcher of the Year” by the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research.

 
Mark T. Pfefer, RN, MS, DC, is a 1988 graduate of Cleveland Chiropractic College and practiced full-time for 11 years and continues to practice part-time in the Kansas City area. Dr. Pfefer returned to Cleveland Chiropractic College in 1997, completing a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and is currently working at the chiropractic college as an Associate Professor and Director of Research for the Kansas City Campus. In 2000 he earned an M.S. degree in Exercise Science with emphasis in sports biomechanics and nutrition education from the University of Kansas. 

Dr. Pfefer has received research funding from the National Institute for Chiropractic Research and is on the review board for the Journal of Chiropractic Education. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Public Health Association. He has received certification by the American Chiropractic Association’s Chiropractic Rehabilitation Association. 

Dr. Pfefer is interested in health promotion and prevention, geriatrics, and physical performance enhancement and maintains a strong interest in teaching and mentoring chiropractic students. He is an avid participant in many sports and coaches little league baseball. 

James W. Brantingham DC, PhD, is a 1983 graduate of Los Angeles College of Chiropractic and practiced full-time for 14 years. In 2005 he earned a PhD in Clinical Research from the University of Surrey in England. Dr. Brantingham has many publications in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, Journal of the Neuromusculoskeletal System, European Journal of Chiropractic and Clinical Chiropractic.

Dr. Brantingham was supervisor and coauthor of the first two randomized clinical trials of adjusting the ankle for treatment of inversion sprain. He has conducted and published numerous clinical trials of chiropractic care for a variety of lower extremity disorders and has been appointed to the Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters as a reviewer for lower extremity neuromusculoskeletal conditions.

Dr. Brantingham is currently Associate Professor of Research Methods and Lower Extremity Adjusting at Cleveland Chiropractic College Los Angeles.

Gary Globe, DC, MBA, PhD, is a multicampus Vice President for Institutional Assessment and Planning as well the Provost and Academic Dean at the Los Angeles campus. He is a 1981 graduate of Cleveland Chiropractic College Los Angeles and maintained a private chiropractic practice subsequently for 15 years as well as served for 8 years as the Director of Therapeutic Services for ten multidisciplinary treatment centers located throughout California. In 1994 Dr. Globe completed a Masters in Business Administration, graduating with honors from the University of Redlands. From 1995 to 1998 he was Chief Operations Officer for a community-based research organization in Los Angeles, where he supervised the successful completion of over 15 Phase II/Phase III clinical trials and engage in research that led to his inclusion as an inventor on a United States patent for assisting in the development of a novel method of treating neuroinflammatory degenerative diseases. His 2004 PhD in epidemiology from the University of Southern California School of Medicine focused on the evaluation of health promotion education in chiropractic. During his doctoral training, he was selected as one of only 12 graduate students throughout the entire to participate in University of Southern California Center for Excellence one-year program of professoriate professional development program. Dr. Globe has served in many additional roles throughout the college, including Clinic Director, Associate Dean and Research Director. Dr. Globe has participated in the submission of several NIH grants as well as co-authored over ten publications, nine platform presentations and 13 poster presentations since completion of his PhD in 2004. In 2007, Dr. Globe was appointed to a two-year term as one of the 17 committee members comprising the Medical Evidence Advisory Panel for California Division of Workers’ Compensation. This committee provides recommendations to the Medical Director on matters concerning the medical treatment utilization schedule.

Alexander J Annala, PhD, MS, MSMIS, earned three graduate degrees (1995 PhD Neurobiology and 1990 MS Molecular Biology from USC; 1985 MS Management of Information Systems from Claremont Graduate School) and pursued additional post-doctoral training in Genetic Engineering at University College London and Molecular Biology and Non-Invasive Imaging of Gene Expression at UCLA School of Medicine. His studies were supported by Chevron, USA National Merit Fellowship, James Irvine Foundation Merit Fellowship, The Wellcome Trust Senior Faculty Research Fellowship, USC Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, UCLA Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship and grants from IBM for Bio-Medical Imaging and NIH/NIDA for Neuropsychiatric Research.

Dr. Annala's faculty appointments include Associate Professor Medical Physiology at Cleveland Chiropractic College (2006-present), Associate Professor Anatomy and Physiology at West Coast University (2005-2006), Associate Research Neuroscientist and Manager Clinical Research at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital (2005), Faculty Research Scientist and Director of Surgical Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2003-2004), Post-Graduate Researcher and Postdoctoral Scholar in Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA School of Medicine (1997-2002), and Wellcome Trust Senior Faculty Research Fellow at University College London (1995-1997).

Dr. Annala's research program ("Neurobiological Substrates of Complementary & Alternative Medicine Treatment Effects" focuses on high density electroencephalographic source localization and non-invasive imaging of functional activity in the brain, spine, and muscles with the goal of developing an objective pain measurement system and characterizing the mechanism of action of manual therapies. This research program, involving collaboration with many doctoral students, interns, clinical and didactic faculty, promises to produce new insight into the brain's role in chiropractic treatment effects. It may also be a basis for EEG guided improvement of diagnostic testing and therapeutic treatment by practitioners of manual therapeutics.

Dr. Annala's published articles appear in many peer-reviewed journals including Behavioral and Neural Biology, Circulation, Gene Therapy, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, and Physiological Genomics.

Richard Strunk, DC, MS is a 1995 graduate of New York Chiropractic College and practiced full time for 8 years. He taught spinal manipulative technique and active physical rehabilitation protocols for 2 years at the University Of Bridgeport College Of Chiropractic. In 2006, he received a Masters of Science degree in clinical research from Palmer Chiropractic College. His masters degree practicum project was entitled; “A feasibility study assessing spinal manipulative care and bimodal care in sub acute and chronic neck pain patients.”

Currently, Dr. Strunk is a research clinician and teaching clinician at the Kansas City campus of Cleveland Chiropractic College. He research interests include spinal manipulation/manual therapy effectiveness for chronic neck pain, cervicogenic vertigo, and balance problems and documenting adverse reactions from spinal manipulation/ manual therapy techniques.

Michael Ramcharan, DC, CCEP, MUA-C, MPH(c), is a graduate of Life University and has been in clinical practice for the past 5 years working in multidisciplinary practices. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the clinical sciences, diagnostic sciences, chiropractic technique and research department. He is also a teaching clinician and research clinician at the Cleveland Chiropractic Health center and is fully credentialed with privileges at Truman Medical Center.

Dr. Ramcharan has been a postgraduate lecturer at the college and is currently a co-investigator on several ongoing research studies at the college. His research interests include manipulation/manual therapy and its effect on proprioceptive deficits in the lower extremities in relation to sports injuries or balance disorders. He is a Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner, certified in Manipulation under Anesthesia and has completed over 100 hours in the areas of acupuncture, sports medicine, pain management and clinical research.

Glen A Jukes, BS, earned his bachelors degree in Zoology-Premed at Brigham Young University in 1996. Upon graduating from Cleveland Chiropractic College Los Angeles in 2007, he joined the faculty as a Graduate Research Assistant.

 

 

 
Jennifer Bedard, BA, graduated from the University of Maine in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in communications. She has more than 15 years of experience in marketing and management in the telecommunication industry. She relocated to Kansas City from the east coast and joined the Cleveland research team in January of 2007 as Research Coordinator. She is responsible for recruitment, testing and data collection for research participants in the ongoing research studies through the Cleveland Chiropractic Research Center. Her research interests include elderly disease prevention and treatment as well as sport injuries in adolescents.

 

Cathy Evans is a native of Montgomery, Alabama and has over 15 years experience in the field of chiropractic. Beginning with a tenure at the Alabama State Chiropractic Association as an administrative assistant she has planned seminars, conventions and served as membership coordinator for the Association. In addition, she assisted in the development of a research-based promotional document for the doctors in the state and coordinated a state-wide chiropractic workers’ comp PPO.

Cathy served as a chiropractic assistant and office manager for clinics in Texas and Alabama and in 2004 the Alabama State Chiropractic Association awarded her the Chiropractic Assistant of the Year Award. Her research interests include smoking cessation advising, nutrition and preventive care. 

 

Charmaine M. Korporaal, M.Tech: Chiropractic, CCFC, CCSP, ICSSD, is an adjunct research faculty member of Cleveland Chiropractic College. She is the Clinic Director in the department of chiropractic at Durban University of Technology (DUT) in South Africa. Dr. Korporaal is a member of the Chiropractic Association of South Africa and the Federation International de Chiropractic du Sport. She is currently the Chair of the National Internship Committee as well as a member of the Council Education Committee for the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa. Dr Korporaal is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine.

  

Will Evans, DC, PhD, CHES is a fourth generation chiropractor from Eufaula, Alabama and a 1986 graduate of Logan College of Chiropractic. He also received a PhD in health promotion from The University of Alabama and UAB with concentration in epidemiology and is a Certified Health Education Specialist. Will has 19 years of practice experience and is Director of Health Promotion Degree Programs for Cleveland College in Kansas City. His interests include modification of intern and physician behaviors related to patient health promotion and smoking cessation research, including smoking ordinance modification and infection control measures for chiropractic offices.