A crowded auditorium of some 350 people, including many notable leaders of the profession, attended the Saturday afternoon February 22, 1992 inaugural ceremony of Dr. Reed Phillips as president of Los Angeles College of Chiropractic.
Dr. Joseph Laurin, director of admissions, acted as master of ceremonies with an invocation given by Dr. Alan Adams, vice president for chiropractic education. Dr. W.M. Marcussen, chair of the board of regents, gave the oath of office to Dr. Phillips and read a proclamation from Governor Pete Wilson saluting LACC's "history of accomplishment and achievement," and praising the college's vital role of leadership to the chiropractic profession.
In his speech, Dr. Phillips said it was his dream to see doctors judged not by the "degrees behind their names, but by the quality of their education and their ability to preserve health and relieve pain and suffering."
Dr. Phillips noted the broadening of academic disciplines at LACC and the stronger fundamental education of entering students. Dr. Phillips pointed to LACC's competency-based, problem-oriented approach to learning via small group study (the ADVANTAGE program) that he said provides "the most complete and comprehensive clinical chiropractic experience available in the profession." The emphasis at LACC, Dr. Phillips asserted, is on quality patient care.
In his address, Dr. Phillips critiqued the "20/20" program on chiropractic that aired on national television the night before his inaugural. While he noted the coverage was more positive than past media efforts, he expressed his concern of the program labeling chiropractors as only back pain practitioners. To address this "pigeonholing" of chiropractic, Dr. Phillips committed himself as a chiropractor and as president of LACC to achieving the following goals:
When sports chiropractors first appeared at the Olympic Games in the 1980s, it was alongside individual athletes who had experienced the benefits of chiropractic care in their training and recovery processes at home. Fast forward to Paris 2024, where chiropractic care was available in the polyclinic for all athletes, and the attitude has now evolved to recognize that “every athlete deserves access to sports chiropractic."
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