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FCER News Release
For Immediate Release: September 11, 2007
Contact: Tom Blackett, APR
380 Wright Road, Norwalk, IA 50211 USA
Phone:
800-622-6309 or 515-981-9888
Fax:
515-981-9427 E-mail:
teblackett@fcer.org
Information Technologies Director Hired for Evidence-Based Resource Center
R.
Joseph Rupert, a programmer from Dallas, Texas with over 13 years’
experience in working with information systems, has been hired by the
Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) as the new
Director of Information Technologies. He will help design and develop FCER’s
new online Evidence-Based Resource Center (EB-RC). Rupert, with a degree in
Biology, will be responsible for developing the first component of the
center called DCConsultSM, an online clinician-patient web site.
“Joe Rupert has a long history in working with FCER, having produced its
first web presence at www.fcer.org,”
Charles R. Herring, DC, FCER President, said. “But Joe’s more important
contribution to date to FCER is the development, along with his father, Ron
Rupert, DC, of the Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System (MANTISTM),
an online research database with over 300,000 entries. MANTISTM
is currently used by all chiropractic colleges, and access to the database
is an FCER member benefit,” Dr. Herring added. “His technological experience
and expertise, as well as his familiarity with chiropractic, are invaluable
benefits to FCER as the EB-RC undergoes development.”
DCConsultSM is a web site that the practitioner can access for
patient care information, read discussions on the latest research and how it
translates into practice, find more detailed research articles and
commentaries and active links to other databases that have a related theme
such as in the areas of nutrition, herbs, exercise and fitness and so on.
DCConsultSM will be available for clinicians beginning in the
first quarter of 2008.
Rupert got his undergraduate degree in Biology from Austin College in
Sherman, Texas. His graduate work is from the University of North Texas,
Denton, Texas. He formerly worked for Action Potential of Dallas, Texas,
where he worked on ChiroACCESS and Health Index online systems, the MANTISTM
index system as well as the MANTISTM CD-ROM product. “Now, after
13 years working with information systems, the MANTISTM database
and collaborating with FCER over a portion of those years, I have the
opportunity to work fulltime for the foundation, and I am excited to take
part in the development of DCConsultSM,” Rupert said.
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 educational materials including
teleconferences, CDs, books and pamphlets. FCER is developing the
profession’s only Evidence-Based Resource Center.
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