Speakers | NCA 75 Anniversary International Conference:

	Brian Budgell Brian Budgell is the Director of the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. He graduated from CMCC in 1986 and was in private practice in Toronto for 6 years. In 1993, he moved to Japan to study under the late Professor Akio Sato in the Department of the Autonomic Nervous System at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. Work conducted with Dr. Sato focused on the effects of somatic stimulation on the behaviour of autonomic nerves in animal models. Following Professor Sato’s retirement, Dr. Budgell moved to the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University. During this time, he completed a number of studies on the effects of spinal stimulation on autonomic regulation of cardiovascular function in humans. For the past ten years, he has also collaborated with Dr. Philip Bolton at the University of Newcastle in Australia, and with Dr. Weimin Li at the Shanghai Research Center for Acupuncture and Meridians. His most recent work concerns the effects of somatic stimulation on spinal cord blood flow, and the influence of spinal cord compression on the modulation of somato-autonomic reflexes.
	Dr Heidi Haavik Taylor, Dr Heidi Haavik Taylor has worked in the area of human sensorimotor physiology for the past nine 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 which she was awarded by the University of Auckland in 2008. Dr Taylor 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 in chiropractic and neurophysiology journals and she has recently been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. She was named Chiropractor of the year in 2007 by the New Zealand Chiropractic Association.
	Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and BioEngineering and Director of the Brain-Body Center in the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is former President of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Dr. Porges is a neuroscientist with particular interests in understanding the neurobiology of social behaviour. His research focuses on how the autonomic nervous system relates to adaptive behaviour, state regulation, and social engagement strategies. His research crosses disciplines and he has published in such diverse disciplines as anesthesiology, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the vertebrate autonomic nervous system to the emergence of social behaviour. The theory provides insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioural, psychiatric, and physical disorders. His research is leading to new protocols to assess clinical disorders and innovative interventions designed to improve clinical course by stabilizing physiological and psychological states.
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	C. Sue Carter, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Brain Body Center at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research program focuses on the neurobiology of social behaviour, including the role of oxytocin in facilitating social bonding and social support. Dr. Carter also has examined endocrine changes associated with human behaviour, including studies that demonstrate the physiological benefits of lactation to the mother. Her recent work includes studies of oxytocin in schizophrenia, autism and Williams Syndrome (a disorder characterized by atypical social behavior). She has published more than 225 papers and has edited or co-edited five volumes including the Integrative Neurobiology of Affiliation (MIT Press, 1999) and Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis (MIT Press, 2005). She is past president of the International Behavioural Neuroscience Society.
	Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, has worked as a chiropractor in France and Sweden, but has over the past twenty years mainly been involved with research. Having passed through Australia, where she taught at the chiropractic course at Phillip Institute of Technology in Melbourne, was employed at the Australian Spinal Research Foundation as Research Director, and then at two governmental departments as researcher, after having taken a Masters Degree in Public Health, she continued to Denmark. After a Ph.D. degree in epidemiology at the University of Southern Denmark, she spent some years as researcher at the Nordic Institute for Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics and some years as Research Director at a Danish local government medical research unit and was in 2004 appointed Research Professor in Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark and in 2010 she became full professor. She is the author of numerous research articles and has two main research interests. From a public health perspective, she is interested in the causes and possibilities of prevention of back pain. From a clinical perspective, she would like to learn more about the different subpopulations of people with back pain in order to make it possible to direct patients to the best treatment. She is a firm believer in the need to integrate research in clinical practice and to bring clinical practice into research.
	David Berceli, Ph.D is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution. He is also the energetic and creative founder and CEO of Trauma Recovery Services (1998). For the past 22 years he has lived and worked in nine countries providing trauma relief workshops and designing recovery programs for international organizations around the world. Dave has lived and worked extensively in Israel/Palestine, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Yemen, Egypt, and Lebanon. Fluent in English and Arabic, David brings a keen understanding of the intertwining dynamics of religion and ethnic customs and has developed specific processes to enable people to manage personal trauma as well as bring healing and reconciliation between diverse groups. He is the creator of a revolutionary and unique set of Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) that help release the deep chronic tension created in the body during a traumatic experience. David continues to be involved in trauma recovery programs not solely for the sake of reducing the suffering caused by trauma but because he has recognized globally that trauma possesses unique possibilities of transformation in the individual if they pursue their recovery process to its ultimate end.
	Michael W. Hall, DC, FIACN A practicing chiropractic neurologist and educator. He is a professor of clinical neurology in the department of academic and clinical sciences at Parker College of Chiropractic, Dallas, TX. His primary interests are in the restoration of brain- based disorders via the multimodal utilization of sensorimotor applications. He entertains the developmental neurobiological principles associated with hemispheric integration especially as it relates to cognitive and autonomic dysfunction. Engrained in his presentations are the scientific foundational principles that support the utilization of chiropractic adjustments to specifically address neurologic dysfunction.
	Mr. Chapman-Smith graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Auckland University, New Zealand in 1969. Awards at law school included the Gary Davies Award, first prize in the Faculty of Law Mooting Competition (1968). Following graduation he practiced civil and commercial litigation, from 1978 as a partner in Holmden, Horrocks & Co in Auckland. His introduction to the chiropractic profession was as counsel for the New Zealand Chiropractors’ Association before the New Zealand Commission of Inquiry into Chiropractic in 1978-79. In 1982 he took a two-year leave from his law partnership to serve as a legal consultant to the Ontario Chiropractic Association in Canada during a major review of health professions’ legislation. Subsequently he remained in Toronto, Ontario, Canada acting as a consultant to chiropractic organizations internationally. He re-qualified as a lawyer in the Province of Ontario in 1989. Mr. Chapman-Smith was instrumental in the formation of the World Federation of Chiropractic in 1988 and has served as its Secretary-General since that time. Since 1986 he has been editor/publisher of a newsletter titled The Chiropractic Report, and his many other articles and publications relative to chiropractic include the book The Chiropractic Profession: Its Education, Practice, Research and Future Directions (NCMIC Group, 2000). As WFC Secretary-General he has been an adviser on chiropractic legislation and the development of the chiropractic profession in many countries and has administered many joint projects for the WFC and the World Health Organization since the early 1990s. Mr. Chapman-Smith is married to Dr. Sira Borges, a doctor of chiropractic and medicine, and has four adult children. Two of his four brothers are medical specialists in New Zealand and two of his four stepsons are chiropractors in Brazil.