2010: Faculty
Robert Blanks
William Decken
Andrea Wickes Bowles
Christine Goertz
Janet Kahn
David Koch
Simon Senzon
Elizabeth Sosnow
Heidi Haavik Taylor
Dr. Blanks has served in a broad range of roles in a ‘crossover’ career between academic medicine, research, and alternative medicine. He served as Co-Director for the Southern California Center for the Study of Complementary Health, then on the Board of Directors for the International Oriental Medicine Research Institute. He served as directors and chairs of various undergraduate and graduate programs in medical schools, then served on the Board of Directors, Council on Chiropractic Practice, Committee on Res/Outcomes Assessment and the Committee on Practice Guidelines and Assessments. He is also on the advisory board of Everglades University in Boca Raton and Chairman of the IACUC Committee of the Max Planck Florida Institute. He also currently holds the position of professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida.
Dr. Decken is a 1986 graduate of Sherman College and is chair of college’s Philosophy Department. He currently serves as president of the Palmetto State Chiropractic Association and Chairman of the Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations (FSCO). Decken served on the South Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners for eight years and was named Chiropractor of the Year in 1998 by both the FSCO and Sherman College. Dr. Decken completed Palmer College’s Chiropractic Philosophy Colloquium, earning the Legion of Chiropractic Philosophers honor. He maintains a private practice in Spartanburg, S.C.
Ms. Wickes Bowles is Senior Consultant with Bright Horizons Consulting Practice. She works with clients to develop work/life strategies that meet the needs of employees and address the needs of the business. She has presented at national conferences to clients and industry experts on the issues of work-life integration, and shared practical application of work/life investments in meeting the challenges of workforce development.
Ms. Wickes Bowles also leads Bright Horizons research investigation that focus on the refinement and advancement of organizational effectiveness programs, policies and services. Her knowledge of child care policies, organizational effectiveness and work/life industry trends combined with analytical skills is used help clients uncover issues and challenges that are in the context of a larger body of research.
With over two decades of experience in the work/life consulting, Ms. Wickes Bowles joined Bright Horizons Family Solutions in 2004. Formally with WFD and then Ceridian, for 14 years Ms. Wickes Bowles developed family care strategies for Fortune 500 companies. In 1996 Ms. Wickes Bowles lived in the UK and helped to establish LifeWorks to serve the work/life needs of children and families in the UK. In this role she provided consulting to companies to support the challenges of managing work and family care responsibilities. Upon her return she was lead Project Manager for a multi-million dollar employer sponsored family care development fund.
Ms. Wickes Bowles was the Director of infant and toddler centers in Colorado, and has provided parent counseling to families exploring child care options. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from University of Colorado Boulder and a Masters of Science in Education from Bank Street College. And is an alumnus of the Denver Community Leadership Program. She resides in New Jersey with her husband and two young children.
Dr. Goertz has led one of the more distinguished careers in chiropractic research leadership. From early days as a clinical research fellow and assistant professor at Northwestern College of Chiropractic to a position of Vice President of Research, Policy and Information Services at the American Chiropractic Association, her career path then led her through a variety of research advisory roles before being named Helath Sciences Administrator and Program Official at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. From there, Dr. Goertz worked at the Samueli Institute as Director of Research and then Deputy Director. She now holds the position of Vice Chancellor for Research and Health Policy at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.
Dr. Kahn is Executive Director of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium; research assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont; and faculty preceptor in the Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative and General Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Past appointments were at Tufts University (Community Health Program) and the Wellesley Center for Research on Women. Dr. Kahn has been a massage therapist for 30 years, treating people with chronic pain and exploring the contributions of touch, movement, and mindfulness to human well being. Current research focuses on applications of massage for chronic pain and on use of mindfulness and touch in community-based health care delivery, including a recent grant from NIMH to work with veterans and their significant others. Kahn has served as president of the American Massage Therapy Association Foundation and Director of the Massage Therapy Research Consortium.
Dr. Koch has had a long and distinguished career in chiropractic practice, teaching, further education, and in the development and promulgation of chiropractic philosophy. Moving from the classroom to the administration and then the president’s office at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic, Dr. Koch then served as special assistant to the President at Palmer College of Chiropractic, then as Vice President for Professional and International Affairs at PCC. He now serves as Professor of Philosophy at Life University.
Dr. Senzon has been writing about the history and philosophy of chiropractic for the last ten years and in that short time has mapped out a new way to understand the philosophy that chiropractic rests upon. His studies of the world’s wisdom traditions, Western philosophy, history, as well as dynamical systems theory and Integral Theory have led to Simon’s many publications. He has published nine peer-reviewed articles and four books. By diving into the chiropractic Greenbooks, Dr. Senzon has been able to show that the basic tenets of chiropractic can be understood by using the latest advances in biological theory, philosophical thought, as well as models of spiritual and psychological health and developmental. In fact, according to Dr. Senzon, the very founding of chiropractic by D.D. Palmer coincided with a transformation in worldviews. This transformation was seen with other great thinkers of Palmer’s day, Einstein in physics, James in psychology, Bergson in philosophy, and Kandinsky in art, to name a few. And it is the advancement of this new way of thinking that was meticulously developed by B.J. Palmer in his many contributions to chiropractic. Dr. Senzon takes this wisdom from the Palmers and makes it relevant for today’s chiropractors so that they can apply it to their life, their practice, and hopefully to the future of the profession. Much of this new understanding has been described in Senzon’s articles and especially his books, The Spiritual Writings of B.J. Palmer, The Secret History of Chiropractic: D.D. Palmer’s Spiritual Writings, Chiropractic Foundations, and Success, Health, and Happiness: The Epigrams of B.J. Palmer.
Dr. Senzon is in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina, where he specializes in Network Spinal Analysis. Simon has been teaching undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students for the past ten years. He is an extension faculty member at Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic, where he teaches at the Academy of Chiropractic Philosophers. He is also the Director of the Subtle Energies Center and the Co-director of the Consciousness Studies Center at Integral Institute as well as an adjunct assistant professor at John F. Kennedy University in the School of Professional Studies, in the Integral Studies graduate program. It is in this latest post as director of the Integral Subtle Energies Center and professor at JFKU, that Dr. Senzon has been focusing much of his current research. He is on the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and The Journal Alternative and Complimentary Medicine. He is a regular contributor to Today’s Chiropractic Lifestyles and On Purpose. For his next book, he is exploring the latest ideas in health, energy medicine, and chiropractic by using the framework of Integral Theory. He is married to Susan Smitten Senzon and has two incredible children, Arielle and Noah.
Dr. Snider is a nationally recognized health care integration and CAM policy leader, organizer and educator, leading integration, academic, and policy initiatives in the United States and Canada for more than 25 years. She is Executive and Senior Editor for the Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project (FNM), an international textbook and symposia series through Elsevier. The FNM is based at the National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) in Portland, Oregon, where Dr. Snider is an Associate Professor. The First FNM International Editors Retreat led by Snider in 2007 resulted in a series of papers on concepts of the vis medicatrix naturae and vitalism as applied to clinical theory, scientific research and public policy.
Among many other public policy activities, she was appointed by the Bush administration to the federal Medical Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC) for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, DHHS, serving on MCAC’s panel to evaluate the evidence for coverage of interdisciplinary lifestyle, behavioral, and nutritional programs for cardiovascular disease. As founding Executive Director for the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC), she led the Consortium’s participation in the National Education Dialogue to Advance Integrated Health Care (NED) at Georgetown University in 2005. She continues in ACCAHC on the Executive Committee of the Board. Snider also serves as Vice Chair of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium, (IHPC), instrumental in key CAM provisions in the Health Care Reform Bill. Her work includes playing an important role in drafting key language in the NCCAM legislation and participating as a staff member to Commissioner Joseph Pizzorno during his appointment to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. She serves on the Washington State Health Professional Loan Repayment and Scholarship Program (HPLRS) Advisory Committee.
Dr. Snider is a licensed naturopathic physician in Washington State and graduated with her naturopathic medical degree in 1982 from Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences. From 1994-2003, Dr. Snider served at Bastyr University as Associate Dean for Public and Professional Affairs, and Associate Dean for Naturopathic Medicine dividing her work between academic, and public affairs activities, including teaching and developing the clinical theory series since 1996, and chairing the curriculum review committee and its interdisciplinary expert teams. She continues her academic and research work there as a member of the faculty. She lectures frequently and has co-authored numerous articles and book chapters, including the NCCAM research study: The Future and Foundations of Naturopathic Medical Science: the Naturopathic Medical Research Agenda (NMRA), and A Hierarchy of Healing, the Therapeutic Order: A Unifying Theory of Naturopathic Medicine. Among other awards, Dr. Snider is the recipient of the Physician of the Year Award from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), the President’s Outstanding Vision Award at Bastyr University, and AANP’s President’s Award. In 2004, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Naturopathic Philosophy from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. She lives in Seattle Washington with her husband and their four children, and loves the sea to mountain landscape of the Pacific Northwest.
Ms. Sosnow is Managing Director of BlissPR joined the firm in 1991, and directs major accounts for clients in professional and financial services. Elizabeth leads BlissPR’s social media strategy development, helping clients and colleagues assess and maximize customer engagement via evolving communications tools. Additionally, Elizabeth is the firm’s chief media trainer and frequently prepares clients for interaction with the press. Previously, she served as director of public relations for the Museum of Holography. She has a B.A. in English literature from Denison University
Dr. Taylor has worked in the area of human sensorimotor physiology for the past ten years. She has utilised somatosensory evoked potential and transcranial magnetic stimulation techniques to investigate the effects of chiropractic adjustments on somatosensory processing, sensorimotor integration and motor cortical output. Dr Taylor was awarded a New Zealand Government Top Achievers Doctoral Scholarship to support her through her PhD degree. She was awarded her PhD by the University of Auckland in 2008.
She is currently the Director of Research at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic where she has established two human neurophysiology research laboratories. Dr Taylor has published a number of award winning papers. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics and the Journal of Chiropractic Education. She was named Chiropractor of the year in 2007 by the New Zealand Chiropractic Association.
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