Faculty clinicians and other faculty moving to the Academic Health
Center this summer include Davenport Campus graduates, front
row, from left, Robert Illingworth, D.C., ’92; Scott Carpenter, D.C.,
’99; Casey Crisp, D.C., ’97; Dennis Lopez, D.C., ’76; Academic
Health Center Director James Owens, D.C., ’82; Virginia Barber,
D.C., ’90; Misty Stick, D.C., ’00; Ronald Boesch, D.C., ’91; Susan
Larkin, D.C., ’82; and Steven Silverman, D.C., ’95. Back row, from
left, James Countryman, D.C., ’85; Ranier Pavlicek, D.C., ’01;
Director of Clinical Radiology Ian McLean, D.C., ’79; Todd
Hubbard, D.C., ’96; Thomas Wicks, D.C., ’93; Dennis Malik, D.C.,
’83; Director of Chiropractic Rehabilitation and Sports Injury Dave
Juehring, D.C., ’94; and Alfred Harker, D.C., ’77. Not pictured:
David Hannah, D.C., and Michael Oppelt, D.C., Davenport ’94. |
The new building on the Davenport Campus, formerly known as
the Chiropractic Learning Resource Center, has a new name: the
Palmer College of Chiropractic Academic Health Center.
“The Chiropractic Learning Resource Center is a part of the new
building, but it’s only one aspect of a larger whole,” said Palmer
College of Chiropractic’s Dean of Clinics Kurt Wood, D.C. “Because
this facility is affiliated with a first-class professional educational
institution, with quality patient-centered care taking place within
it, and with a focus on employment of and contribution to scholarship
in the profession, it is truly an academic health center.”
The Center has approximately 50,000-square feet of space
devoted to a community outpatient clinic facility and a learning
resource center for clinical chiropractic education. With its
progressive clinic facility, the Center will further enhance the
clinical education that students receive and offer expanded
chiropractic clinic services to patients.
It is scheduled to open on July 10, 2007, and will include community
outpatient clinic facilities, clinical learning resources for
students, faculty, alumni and researchers, and a philosophy devoted
to best practices in clinical education and patient care. In addition,
the facility will have digital radiography services and areas
devoted specifically to chiropractic rehabilitation and sports injury
services, and workers compensation and personal injury services.
“We are gearing Palmer’s clinical education to prepare our graduates
for contemporary chiropractic practice,” said Dr. Wood. “The
students will be taking part in all aspects of patient-centered care
and management, guided by our faculty clinicians. Our focus will
be on evidence, clinician experience and patient expectations.”