EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL
I was born in 1957 in Las Vegas, Nevada and in 1965
I moved to Santa Barbara where I attended high school,
before attending UCSB. Next, I transferred to UCLA where
I received a dual major degree in psychobiology. Finally,
I attended Cleveland Chiropractic of Los Angeles where
I graduated in 1987 with a Doctorate of Chiropractic.
I worked in various cities before coming to Ventura,
Ca. in 1988. A year later, I began my own practice in
Ventura, and then opened another office in Ojai in 1995.
My practice is based on: family care, sports injuries,
whiplash and other car accident related injuries, as
well as workers’ compensation injuries.
I am a Qualified Medical Evaluator (Q.M.E.) for the
state of California. By being a Q.M.E., it is my responsibility
to objectively analyze a patient’s injuries/disabilities,
and help decide proper care based their impairments or
disabilities.
I feel it is important to be actively involved in the
community. As a result of that belief, I spent 8 years
helping a local high school football team as an “on field
doctor”. I treated injuries on the field, as well as
treated the young athletes in my office for their injuries
that could not be resolved on the field. During that
time, I was available to all the sports teams, and provided
care for athletes that participated in: volleyball, baseball,
girls’ soccer, as well as the cheerleaders and managers,
as part of my public service. This was a great learning
experience for me, and I felt a deep sense of satisfaction
for helping in anyway I could.
Since I’ve graduated I’ve continued to further my education
by studying subjects such as: workers’ compensation;
various adjustment styles; whiplash, which included being
a panel of “Crash” 1999 program. In this program, I participated
in a 16-car crash program, and I was able to learn more
about bumper systems and whiplash.
FAMILY
My wife, Karla, and I were married in 1987. We have
two children – Orren and Marcus.
Orren is 25, and lives in Dallas, Texas. He works in
the perfume industry, and is learning to identify perfumes,
by smell! Marcus is 22-years-old, his passions are motorcycle
riding and computers. He’ll be going to school for computer
networking. Karla and I live in Meiners Oaks, California,
just outside of Ventura, where my practice is currently.
My passions are reading and traveling, especially on
short-term missions. I was a short-term missionary in
the Caribbean, Lithuania and Kazakhstan as part of street
evangelism and later training and teaching chiropractic,
as well as treating people in these countries where there
was no chiropractic care.
HEALING SCRIPTURES:
Mark 16:17- 18 – You will know believers this way; they
will lay hands on the sick and they will get well
1 Corinthians 12:9 – to another faith by the same
Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit
Jeremiah 30:17 - But I will restore you to health and
heal your wounds
Acts 4:30 – Stretch out your hand to heal and perform
miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your
holy servant Jesus
2 Timothy 1:6 – Because of this I continue to remind
you to keep the fire of God’s gracious gift burning–
that which is within you as a result of my laying on
of my hands
Luke 11:9 – And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be
given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it
shall open unto you
CHIROPRACTOR AND QUALIFIED
MEDICAL EVALUATOR
CURRICULUM VITAE: 09/06
EDUCATION
University of California at Los Angeles, Bachelor of Science, Psychobiology
06/80.
Cleveland College of Chiropractic at Los Angeles, Doctor of Chiropractic
04/87.
Technique Seminars Gonstead, Motion Palpation and Applied Kinesiology,
85-87
Practice Liability Seminar, 06/89.
C.C.F. Workers’ Compensation Seminary Basic 09/90.
Industrial Disability Examiner Modules (four), 02/91.
Managing Soft Tissue Injuries, 04/91.
Vertebral Subluxation Complex,
05/92.
Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician: Concepts of a Sports Physician,
07/92.
Repetitive Stress Injuries Upper Extremities, 10/93.
Qualified Medical Evaluator Competency Exam State Review, 05/94.
Qualified Medical Evaluator Certificate of Completion, 03/97.
Sacro-Occipital Technique, 12/94.
Cervical Acceleration/Deceleration Injuries and Rating Permanent
Impairment, 01/95.
Judge O’Brien’s Workers’ Compensation Seminar #1, 10/95.
Pediatrics, Chiropractic for Babies and Children, 12/95.
Lower Extremities,
LACC, 01/97.
Workers’ Compensation QME Westwood Seminar, 03/97.
Apportionment (part 1), “All you can eat in 6 hours”, 03/98.
“Whiplash”:
The Masters Program:
Advanced Diagnostics or Treatment, 03/98.
Narrative Report Writing, 05/98.
Medical Legal Issues, 06/98.
Advanced Topics, 01/99.
“Crash ’99”, accident reconstruction Texas Engineering
Extension, 08/99.
Whiplash, The Masters Program: Advanced Certification Course,
11/99
Advanced
Med/Legal Issues for QME, 07/00.
Clinical Nutrition & Diversified
Technique, 01/01
Traumatic Brain
Injury; Accident Reconstruction, 02/01
Practice Made
Perfect, 01/02
Workers Comp: An Insider’s Look at Insurance,
Legal and QME Perspectives, 02/03.
X-Ray Supervisor Operator Permit Course, 06/03.
X-Ray, CT, MRI, Supervisor Operator Permit Course, 01/04.
ABC’s
for QME’s (Part 1), 04/04.
Judge O’Brien’s Workers’ Compensation
Seminar #6, 06/04.
Judge O’Brien’s
Workers’ Compensation Seminar #7, 07/04.
Survival
Guide to Impairment Ratings, AMA 5th edition, 01-05.
X-ray:
producing quality images, case studies, evaluations & treatment
plans, 01-06.
Apportionment (part 2), “All you can eat in 6 hours”,
03/06.
Dr.
Curry’s Famous Muscle Testing Workshop, 04/06
Nutritional Response
Testing, Dr. Freddy Ulan, 4/06
Nutritional Wisdom
of the Masters (Goodhart & Lee), 09/06
2007 Impairment Rating Evaluation & Information on current changes in WC;
Diviersified Technique 01/07
SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION & OTHER
Diplomat of National Board of Chiropractic Examiner, 09/86
Workers' Compensation Qualified Medical Evaluator, 10/92 - 07/02 & 07/04
- present
Industrial Medical Evaluator for EDD, 10/94
Workers' Compensation Industrial Disability Examiner, 03/91
Extended Faculty Member, Cleveland Chiropractic & Palmer College
of Chiropractic West, 02/95 and 07/96 - 07/03
LICENSE
California State License #18918, 01/88
Radiography X-ray Supervisor and Operator, RHC 129303, 10/87
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
California Chiropractic Association, 01/87 - present
Council of Sports Injuries and Physical Fitness, 06/91, 08/97
American Chiropractic Association, 07/91 - 1995
California Physicians Advisory Council, 06/94
North American Cervicogenic Headache Society, 08/97 - Present
PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
Classic Chiropractic, Ventura, 02/88-05/01 & 08/03-Present.
Classic
Chiropractic, Ojai, 04/95-07/03.
Extern doctor in San Luis Obispo,
08/97-01/88.
