At a VIP reception celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress unveiled the Kent S. Greenawalt Legacy Award, named after the foundation's founder. The F4CP also announced the first four recipients of the award during the reception, held at this year's The National by FCA in Orlando, Fla.: Drs. Thomas Klapp, Carol Ann Malizia, Louis Sportelli and Heidi Haavik.
"Our four chosen recipients have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to excellence, a dedication to pushing boundaries, and an insatiable curiosity that fuels their pursuit of greatness," enthused Dr. Sherry McAllister, foundation president. "Their achievements have incited major progressions for the entire profession."
Dr. Klapp served the profession for 40 years before his untimely passing in 2020. He was ChiroCongress (formerly COCSA - Congress of Chiropractic State Associations) president; Life University, ICA and F4CP board member; and perhaps most notably, helped spearhead the association merger that resulted in what is today the Michigan Association of Chiropractors.
Dr. Malizia, a foundation board member before passing from cancer in 2019, founded, developed and led the Hudson Valley Whole Life Center in Newburgh, N.Y. - one of the most progressive chiropractic practices in the nation, featuring chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy, functional medicine, whole-food nutrition and more; and established CAM Integrative Consulting.
Dr. Louis Sportelli, president of the NCMIC Foundation, is the former president of the World Federation of Chiropractic and former American Chiropractic Association chairman of the board. A fervent advocate of chiropractic long considered one of the profession's foremost media spokespersons, he is the author of several books including Introduction to Chiropractic, utilized by DCs worldwide as a patient-education tool.
Dr. Haavik is the vice president / dean of research at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic and author of The Reality Check: A Quest to Understand Chiropractic From the Inside Out. A former member of the WFC's Research Council, Dr. Haavik has received numerous research awards and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics and Journal of Chiropractic Education; and is a review editor for Frontiers in Psychology and Sports Science.
When I graduated from chiropractic college in 1981 and started practice, I heard it all, and very little was positive. “You are a quack; you do not know what a subluxation is; you couldn’t get into a real health care program, so you chose the one that is slightly above a mail-order degree; you have no proof that chiropractic works; Are you really licensed?”, and so much more.
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