Palmer Profiles
Learn from current Palmer students and graduates about student life at Palmer and what it’s like to be a member of the chiropractic profession. You’ll find out why they’re so passionate about chiropractic and why they feel Palmer is the best place to prepare for a chiropractic career.
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Allison Schroeder
As a member of the largest family of chiropractors in the profession (73 and growing), Allison Schroeder didn’t just “dip her toe in the water” when it came to making her decision to be a part of the family tradition, she dove right in. And it was not just because her second cousin happens to be Terry Schroeder, D.C., a member of four-time U.S. Olympic water polo teams, who won silver and bronze medals as a player, and coached the 2008 men’s water polo team to a silver medal in the Beijing Summer Olympic games.
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Shawn Borges
For some people, “taking control of your life” is a rhetorical slogan. For West Campus student Shawn Borges, the phrase became the motivational mantra of his literal reality.
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Nina
Nina received her Associate of Science in Chiropractic Technology (A.S.C.T.) degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic. Her husband is a student in Palmer’s D.C. program. “Our goal is to open our own business together when we return to Raleigh, N.C.,” says Nina.
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Jay Breitlow, D.C.
I graduated from Purdue University in 2002 and decided I needed to work in the field I had specifically gone to school for. So not really knowing what I was going to be doing on a daily basis, I accepted a well-paying job in Richmond, Va., as a nuclear engineer. The problem with being an engineer is that you end up behind a desk all day crunching numbers and clicking a mouse until the clicker nearly stops. So I started to do new and interesting things.
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Don Walsh, D.C.
Don Walsh, D.C., is a 2007 graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Florida Campus.
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Anjlene
For Davenport Campus student Anjlene, the Palmer’s Clinic Abroad Program (CAP), changed her life. No, she didn’t go on one of the CAP trips to a foreign country to provide care. She was in that country!
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Katie
After graduating with her Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.) degree at Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Davenport Campus in June 2006, Katie pursued a practice while working to obtain her diplomate in Chiropractic Pediatrics.
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Mari Well before Mari became a student in the Associate of Science in Chiropractic Technology (A.S.C.T.) degree program, she was already holistically minded. “I was raised with the ideals of natural health. It’s always been a part of my life,” she says.
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Daniel
A ninth quarter student at Palmer’s Florida Campus, Daniel was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Youngstown State University before enrolling at Palmer.
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Cory
Cory discovered chiropractic at the age of 17 after he injured his back doing back flips off of 40-foot cliffs with his friends. “The next day I went to a local chiropractor for muscle spasms in my lower back,” he recalls. “Two days later I had almost no symptoms, and from then on I was hooked on chiropractic.”
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Jacalyn Buettner, D.C.
“I would tell anyone who asked me about a career in chiropractic that it’s an incredible, rewarding career,” says Jacalyn Buettner, D.C. “I’ve been practicing for more than 20 years, and I still absolutely love what I do.”
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Joshua
You could say chiropractic came naturally for Joshua: both of his parents are Palmer chiropractors. But it was more than just his mother and father’s influences that led him to chiropractic and to Palmer College.
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