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I graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1967, then travelled in North America, Australia and Europe before starting a part time teaching post at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth UK in 1971, I established a practice in Salisbury in 1974, which continues. In 1986 I became Director of Research at AECC and focussed on musculoskeletal research and epidemiology, encouraging staff to undertake doctoral studies. In 1999 I became director of a new musculoskeletal research institute - the Institute for Musculoskeletal Research and Clinical Implementation, where I continue to work. I am also Professor of Musculoskeletal Research in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Bournemouth University. I published the first epidemiology paper by a chiropractor in a medical journal in 1977 then built a collaboration that resulted in a trial by the Medical Research Council in the UK. This was published in 1991 and had a positive outcome for chiropractors. My PhD project, which was completed in 1991, involved the invention of Quantitative Fluoroscopy, a technology that measures inter-vertebral motion in living subjects and which has now entered clinical use. I am a former member of the World Federation of Chiropractic's Research Council.

Listed skills include Musculoskeletal, Rehabilitation, Clinical Research, Healthcare, and 19 others.