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FCER News Release
For Immediate Release: September 12, 2008
380 Wright Road, Norwalk, IA 50211 USA
Phone:
800-622-6309 or 515-981-9888
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FCER Board
of Trustees
 The
results of the election of the Foundation for Chiropractic
Education and Research (FCER) for the Board of Trustees,
voted on by the membership of FCER, were presented and took
effect on August 12, 2008, at the summer Board meeting.
Elected to the FCER Board was Charles DuBois; re-elected to
the Board were Ronald C. Evans, DC; George B. McClelland,
DC; and R. Reeve Askew, DC.
As the newest member of the Board of Trustees, FCER is
pleased to welcome Charles DuBois, President of Standard
Process, Inc. Mr. DuBois has been with Standard Process
since 1983, when he held varying summer jobs with the
organization, including hand-weeding beet fields on the
company farm. Having a long affiliation with the
chiropractic profession, Mr. DuBois also serves on the board
of the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress. He is also on
the board of several non-chiropractic organizations,
including the Child Abuse Education Foundation of Wisconsin,
Jonah’s Journey (an autism awareness foundation), and the
Palmyra Community Foundation.
“I am pleased to join FCER’s Board of Trustees. Scientific
evidence is becoming an essential tool for all
chiropractors,” said Mr. DuBois. “Being given the chance to
be involved first-hand in efforts that will provide
chiropractors with evidence-based research and the expertise
to use this research in daily practice is very exciting.”
Re-elected to the FCER Board of Trustees are three
chiropractors whose dedication to FCER has culminated in
their appointments to the Executive Committee. Serving as
the Vice President is Dr. Ron Evans. This is
Dr. Evans’s second appointment to the FCER Board of
Trustees.
“As a returning Trustee for FCER, I am more hopeful for the
state of research in conservative health science than ever
before,” said Dr. Evans. “The citizens of this country and
our patients are eager for broader application of drugless,
non-surgical health care for their wellness. Patients are
eager for the shift of healthcare policy away from the
current and shop-worn paradigm, in which conservative care
seems to be the last thing offered. FCER, with its new
DCConsult information portal, is leading the way in
providing an evidence-base for critically important policy
and treatment decisions. Better-educated doctors of
chiropractic better serve chiropractic patients. FCER
continues to evolve and meet the mission of educating not
only the public about chiropractic, but educating the
profession about the advances in and findings of the latest
research in health care. Belonging to the Board of Trustees,
with yet another opportunity to participate in a grand
evolution of the Foundation, is exciting, rewarding, and
exhilarating. FCER is translating research into practice.
Because of FCER, patients are better treated, doctors of
chiropractic provide better care, and chiropractic leads the
field in conservative, evidence-based health care. I am most
fortunate to be able to serve the chiropractic profession
and patients with this trusteeship.”
A Past-President of FCER, Dr. George McClelland has been
re-elected to the board and the Executive Committee. When
asked to provide a comment on the importance of FCER, Dr.
McClelland’s passion for the organization and its mission
became evident:
“Having been involved with FCER for over 25 years, I can
recall the excitement I felt when I first read the RAND,
Manga, and AHCPR reports. At that time, I imagined it was
just a matter of time before chiropractic became a
mainstream health profession with open interdisciplinary
communication and patients that were no longer afraid to
tell their medical providers that they were seeing a
chiropractor. This improvement had come because of the
growing number of research fellows and the growing basis of
research, developed through the small pilot studies (many
later to receive federal support for larger studies), funded
by FCER thanks to our members and partners. These are the
reasons we have DCs serving in large multidisciplinary
practices, hospitals, military bases, VA centers, and in
individual and group practices. Additionally, we have an
expanding base of DCs with MS, PhD, JD, MD, etc degrees who
are developing positions beyond the chiropractic clinic
setting. All of these have a direct relation to the
development and expansion of our science and the data that
drives it.
“The next goal for our profession is to educate our
chiropractic physicians, other healthcare providers,
consumers, and decision makers about the science that drives
our healthcare services, while we seek to develop new
research and researchers to help our profession better serve
those health consumers—our patients—all around the world.
That is why I am so thrilled to be involved with FCER as it
works to meet the changing needs of the profession!”
Also re-elected to the Board was R. Reeve Askew, DC. “It has
been remarkable to witness the growth of the research base
for the chiropractic profession over the years,” said Dr.
Askew. “I am so proud to be involved in an organization that
is moving the profession forward in a direction in keeping
with where health care is now and with an eye toward where
it will be in the future. As a clinician, I have seen the
trends in health care and I am grateful that FCER is working
to provide all of us with the information we need in daily
practice.”
In addition to the elections which were voted on by FCER
membership, the FCER Board also held elections for the FCER
Executive Committee; Charles R. Herring, DC, was re-elected
FCER President.
“Over one year ago, the Board of Trustees made a decision to
change the direction of FCER,” said Dr. Herring. “Perhaps
the most notable change was the development of DCConsult,
which is a website designed for chiropractic clinicians. But
FCER has also made many additional changes including a total
reorganization that has resulted in FCER becoming more
focused on helping the practicing DC deal with the many
changes that are taking place towards evidence-based
practice. Thus, our new motto--’Translating Research Into
Practice.’ These are exciting times at FCER and I appreciate
the Board having the confidence in me to re-elect me to a
second term as President.”
For more information on FCER, the Board of Trustees, and the
programs that FCER has developed to Translate Research Into
Practice, please go to www.fcer.org.
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