FCER EXPANDS ITS BOARD, ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT

Laying the groundwork for an expanded footprint on the chiropractic profession, the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) has elected a new foundation president, an expanded Board of Trustees, and appointed a new Executive Committee. Dr. Charles R. Herring, currently a trustee, was elected FCER president at the FCER Board of Trustees meeting held recently in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Herring succeeds Vincent P. Lucido, DC, who had been board president for the past 10 years. Dr. Lucido remains on the board. “This is one of the most exciting and productive times in FCER’s 60-plus year history,” Dr. Herring, said. “This election was important since new trustees have joined FCER from careers outside or ancillary to chiropractic. Joining our current hard-working board, these new members will bring fresh new ideas to the foundation, moving it in directions that up to now, no other chiropractic organization has traveled,” he added. New trustees, all elected at-large, include Jeffrey Fedorko, DC, practicing in Canton, Ohio, and an active member of the Ohio State Chiropractic Association (OSCA) and the Congress of Chiropractic State Associations (COCSA); Mitchell Haas, DC, MA, the dean of research at Western States Chiropractic College (WSCC) in Portland, Oregon, and FCER’s 2006 Researcher of the Year; Fabrizio Mancini, DC, FICC, FACC, president of Parker College of Chiropractic (PCC) in Dallas, Texas, and an Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC) board member; and, David M. Rubin, PhD, Maplewood, New Jersey, who has more than 10 years of experience as a designer and executive in bioinformantics services as well as business development experience in the commercial marketplace. Re-elected to the board, in addition to Dr. Herring, was Thomas E. Hyde, DC, DACBSP, of Miami, Florida, a well-respected practitioner, author and speaker on the applications of chiropractic methods in the sports and fitness area. Dr. Herring, who practices in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been instrumental in helping to develop FCER’s new Evidence-Based Resource Center, the online research and education web site which will be launched later this year. In addition to his practice, Dr. Herring has served in the Louisiana House of Representatives, and has been appointed to numerous health care boards and commissions over the years. The trustees’ Executive Committee, also recently appointed, includes: • FCER President Charles R. Herring, DC, DABCC, FICC, who is also a popular chiropractic lecturer • FCER Vice President Reed B. Phillips, DC, PhD, MSCM, DACBR, former president of Southern California University of Health Sciences and current resident of Pocatello, Idaho. In addition, Dr. Phillips has served on numerous chiropractic and health care boards and commissions. He also is a renowned chiropractic researcher and author • FCER Secretary/Treasurer D. Michael Kelly, Esq., a practicing attorney in Columbia, South Carolina, where he is a well-known community activist. His firm specializes in providing legal services to those who have been injured by the conduct of another • George B. McClelland, DC, DABCC, who practices in Christiansburg, Virginia, and is a former FCER president. In addition, Dr. McClelland has served on many chiropractic and health care boards and commissions, and is known as a chiropractic lecturer and author • R. Reeve Askew, DC, of Easton, Maryland, who has been on the Board of Governors for the American Chiropractic Association as well as its Executive Committee. He also has a long history of serving on non-profit boards Other trustees include Evon Barvinchack, DC, of Greencastle, Pennsylvania; David A. Herd, DC, of Geneva, New York; Vincent P. Lucido, DC, of Lakeland, Florida; Frank H. McCarty, PE, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island; and, Mario Spoto, DC, of Downington, Pennsylvania. FCER is the chiropractic profession’s oldest not-for-profit foundation, serving the profession since 1944. Based in Norwalk, Iowa, FCER has as its mission to “Translate Research into Practice” by granting funds for research and producing practitioner and patient education materials including teleconferences, CDs, books, and pamphlets. FCER is developing the profession’s only Evidence-Based Resource Center.