Collaboration between Logan University/ACA Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics/ ACA Council on Women’s Health.
SaturdaySeptember 28, 2024: 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
Sunday
September 29, 2024: 8:00 am – 3:30 pm
Lunch Provided
PACE Approved States:AK, KS, ME, MO, NV, ND, SD, TN
AR Pending Approval
No Prior Approval States:AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, ID, IL, IA, IN, MA, MD, MS, MT, NE, NH, NJ, OH, OR, RI, SC, UT, VA, VT, WA, WY
Attendees are advised to check with their boards to ensure this is in accordance with state rules and regulations.
Registration
$240
Non-ACA Members
$210
ACA members
$50
Current Students & Faculty
Hotel Information
Homewood Suites by Hilton St. Louis-Chesterfield
840 Chesterfield Parkway West
Chesterfield, MO
636.530.0305
1 King Bed, 1 Bedroom Suite non-smoking
$125.00 per night
October 20 – 22, 2023
Please make your reservations by September 21, 2023
Program Speakers, Schedule and Topics
Schedule September 24-25, 2022
Full Schedule Breakdown below or Download PDF here.
Schedule September 24-25,2022
Saturday Hours 12pm-7pm (expo opens at 11am) Late lunch 3-4pm
Sunday 8am-3pm Lunch 11am-12pm
Full Schedule Breakdown below or Download PDF here.
Expo Hall Opens
Saturday 12pm-7pm
| 12pm-1pm | Welcome
Karen Erickson, DC, FICC, FACC Kristina Petrocco-Napuli, DC,MS, FICC, FACC Keynote: A Call to Re-imagine Women’s Health Care: A Mythopoetic Approach to the Art of Chiropractic |
| 1pm-3pm | Sleep – The Secret to Health and Happiness Annette Schippel, DC |
3 pm -4 pm
Late Lunch and Vendor Expo
| 4pm-6pm | Whole Food Nutrition Part I: Georgia Nab, DC |
| 6pm-7pm | Panel Discussion: Sarah Radabaugh, Georgia Nab, Delilah Renegar, Katherine Greenwood Moderator: Dr. Karen Erickson |
Raffles
Sunday 8am-3pm
| 8am-10am | Break Out Sessions Session in Mabee HallPelvic Assessment and Adjusting Kristina Petrocco-Napuli, DC, MS,FICC Session II Main Stage Caring for Women in the Fourth Trimester: Breastfeeding and Beyond Dr. Sarah Radabaugh |
| 10am-11am | Whole Food Nutrition Part II: Georgia Nab, DC |
11 am -12 pm
Lunch and Vendor Expo
| 12pm – 1pm | Whole Food Nutrition Part II: Georgia Nab, DC |
| 1pm-3pm | Trauma Informed Care Deliah Renegar, DC, MD |
Speakers
Blending a passion of dedication and tenacity, Delilah Renegar, DC has been practicing internal medicine since 1989. Yet, her life-long dream of becoming a doctor started early on, proven by her first copy of Grey’s Anatomy – purchased at 10 years old!
Today, Dr. Renegar’s devotion to healthcare and wellness lifestyle thrives on at Aligned Modern Health where she leads the growing scope of Functional Medicine and Clinical Nutrition. Committed to empowered health, Dr. Renegar believes that nothing is more sacred than the doctor-patient relationship that is honored through Functional Medicine and personalized medicine.
Dr. Renegar earned her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, graduating with honors. She received her medical degree, Summa Cum Laude, at University of Arts, Science and Technology and her chiropractic medicine degree at the National University of Health Science (where she was awarded the Joseph Janse “Outstanding Graduate” award).
Prior to joining the Aligned Modern Health team as the Director of Functional Medicine in 2019, Dr. Renegar was in private practice in the far western suburbs of Chicago. In addition to her current role at Aligned Modern Health, she has served as President on the Council on Nutrition for the American Chiropractic Association. Dr. Renegar also serves on the post-doctoral faculty of both National University of Health Sciences and the University of Western States, and is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Her special interests include preventive health, education and motivation.
Dr. MaryAnne Dimak is an Associate Professor in the Clinical Sciences Department at Parker University. Prior to Parker, she and her husband Cody owned and operated an active-care and rehabilitation-focused practice in California.
In 2018, they relocated to be closer to their families and found opportunities to transition to the academic environment at Parker. She teaches Functional Assessment and Multimodal Rehabilitation of the Prenatal and Postpartum Patient and has been heavily involved in integrating more active care and functional movement principles with students, clinicians, and coaches through the various programs at Parker.
Dr. Kliethermes joined Logan University in 2021 as a faculty clinician where she mentors interns at the beginning of their clinical careers, assisting with critical thinking, clinical diagnosis, treatment plans, billing and coding. She introduces them to the clinical environment and helps to bring all the knowledge they have acquired together to formulate a treatment plan and carry out appropriate treatment for patients. Since January 2024, she has overseen the Women’s Health Specialty Clinic at Montgomery Health Center Logan University. This is the first Women’s Health Specialty rotation at a chiropractic institution in the country and is open to Trimester 8-10 interns. The specialty clinic has seen interesting cases and helps educate the interns in networking and preceptor opportunities in Women’s Health.
Dr. Kliethermes earned her doctor of chiropractic and her Bachelor of Science in Human Anatomy from Parker University in 1998.
Her background includes owning and operating her own chiropractic practice, working as an independent contractor and associate. She has also taught in higher education for the past 18 years.
Dr. Jessie Young is a Pediatric and Perinatal Chiropractor and IBCLC with 10 years of experience but new to the Olympia community! She works closely with other healthcare professionals providing comprehensive and collaborative care. As part of a family’s health care team, Dr. Young helps resolve musculoskeletal issues leading to breastfeeding difficulties including neck tension, TMJ dysfunction, tongue and lip ties, torticollis, cranial bone asymmetries and painful latch. She also provides pre and post-frenotomy/frenectomy care to resolve musculoskeletal issues contributing to tongue and lip ties. Providers and patients rely on Dr. Young for her comprehensive diagnostic and treatment approaches, including gentle chiropractic adjustments, therapeutic exercise, soft tissue, Webster and craniosacral techniques.
Kelsey Nibbelink obtained her Master’s in Infant Mental Health at Mills College (2018). Kelsey has an academic and professional background in infant and early childhood development and maternal caregiving practices. Her areas of expertise include infants’ psychological and neurophysiological development, infant-caregiver attachment relationships, behavioral disorganization, caregiving dysregulation, attachment trauma, and perinatal loss.
Dr. Nichelle Gurule, the owner of Gaia Health, is from Colorado and met her husband Dr. Antonio Gurule at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving out to California for graduate school at Palmer College of Chiropractic.
Her chiropractic journey began in the hospital working in an integrative setting at a Department of Defense Hospital at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, treating wounded warriors, she then transitioned into working in a sports chiropractic setting, before she began her own practice and put her focus into her true passion of women and family health.
When people describe her they often use the words motivated and passionate, which couldn’t be truer. The things in life that she is most passionate about is her work in the health care world with women and children, along with her roles as a mother and wife.
Her family loves to be active! You can find them at the gym (or in our garage gym), on bike rides, hikes, neighborhood walks, and paddleboarding. They love the outdoors and are so grateful they live in Colorado where the weather and scenery are so beautiful.
D. Robert Kuhn, DC, DACBR, ART® is a Professor and former Chair of the Clinical Science Division; a position he held from 2003 until 2016. He has been a member of the faculty since 1990. Dr. Kuhn holds an AS degree from Empire State College in New York; earned BS in Human Biology and Doctor of Chiropractic degrees from Logan University in 1985 and 1986 respectively. He completed a three year Radiology Residency in 1990 and successfully passed the radiology board exams and earned Diplomate status from the American Chiropractic College of Radiology. He was awarded tenure in 2007. In addition to Radiology classes he has taught a wide range of other topics including Chiropractic Philosophy, Physical Diagnosis Lab, Laboratory Diagnosis Lab, Dermatology, Active Release Technique, Gastrointestinal and Genitourinary and has recently become certified to teach Selective Functional Movement Assessment.
Dr. Kuhn was appointed to the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards-Providers of Continuing Education (FCLB-PACE) in 2009 and continues to serve as an Application Reviewer. He has served on various committees of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners from 1993-2001 and again in 2015. Dr. Kuhn served the Alumni Association from 1993-2013 as an Advisory Board member and officer. As a member of the American Chiropractic College of Radiology he began service on the annual Convention Committee in 1996 and has been Chair of that Committee from 1998 and continues to serve in that capacity. As a certified instructor in Active Release Techniques® (ART) he was named to the Medical Staff for the United States Skating National Championships in 2006.
Dr. Kuhn has delivered many post graduate lectures for Logan University since 1989 and has spoken for the Postgraduate departments of Parker College, National University Health Sciences and Life West. He has delivered postgraduate lectures for the University of Missouri Kansas City Medical School in the area of the documentation of soft tissue Injuries. He is a contributing author for the Elsevier textbook Clinical Imaging which is in its 3rd edition.
Dr. Daryl Ridgeway graduated from Logan College of Chiropractic earning his Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1997 and also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Southern Illinois University in 1993. He has taught Diversified Technique, Orthopedics, Spinal Anatomy, Advanced Soft Tissue Methods and the Styles of Jazz course, along with several other courses since beginning his teaching career in 1997. Additionally, he is a regular speaker in the Slice of Logan program and sits on the NBCE Part II Practices Committee, which oversees content on the Part II Board exam.
Dr. Sarah Tirimacco was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She graduated with honors from The University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts in Kinesiology and obtained her Doctor of Chiropractic from New York College of Chiropractic. As co-owner of Pinnacle Hill Chiropractic, she provides quality chiropractic and wellness care, including pregnant and postpartum patients, athletes, and their families in the Rochester community. She is specialty trained as a pregnancy chiropractor and has extensive training in postpartum care.
Dr. Brendan McCann grew up in New Hampshire, and attended New York Chiropractic College with the vision of bringing integrative, multidisciplinary musculoskeletal care to northern New England. Experiences in cardiac rehabilitation, geriatric health, and employee fitness inspired his studies. Specialty training as a Primary Spine Practitioner in Providence, RI, led to his passion for modern spine care and rehabilitation.
Georgia Nab, DC, MS, CNS believes the key to health lies within each of us, and works to help support and restore optimal health to her patients. She uses the idea of one degree of change having a compounding effect on our health, and works with her patients in making small, incremental changes in their health to move the patient into a more positive direction. Lifestyle changes, nutrition, movement, sleep, structural, and mindfulness are all incorporated into her treatment protocols, individualized for each patient.
Dr. Katherine Greenwood has been delivering highly customized, leading edge coaching and consulting services to hundreds of individual clients and professional organizations for over two decades. Katherine’s tailored, targeted, and attentive approach creates a synergistic client-coach partnership that deepens the coaching journey and maximizes desired results.
In addition to her extensive coaching career, Katherine’s employment experience includes work as an attorney in corporations and international law firms; as an adjunct law professor, and as a mediator and ombudsman.
Katherine earned her Doctorate and Masters of Arts degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her doctoral work focused on the intersection of somatic and archetypal psychology. Katherine attended Tulane University School of Law, where she earned a Juris Doctorate. She obtained a Bachelors of Art in Sociology at Tulane University.
Natural health care delivered with compassion and respect – that’s the vision that drove Dr. Sarah to create Cloud Peak Chiropractic & Wellness and it’s that same mantra that fuels her continued devotion to every patient in the Cloud Peak family.
Dr. Sarah’s first exposure to chiropractic came at a very young age courtesy of her father, Dr. Bill Hayes, an experienced and highly skilled chiropractor in his own right. Inspired by the incredible results and long-lasting relationships she witnessed in her father’s office, Dr. Sarah enrolled at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota, where she earned her Bachelor of Science. Later, she graduated as Valedictorian from Northwestern College of Chiropractic in Minneapolis, Minnesota, accomplishing both her Doctor of Chiropractic and her Acupuncture Certification.
Today, Dr. Sarah is one of the few chiropractors in Wyoming specializing in the treatment of infants, children, and pregnant women. Her approach to patient care centers around three crucial beliefs:
- Listening is the most important skill a health care provider can possess
- Drugs and surgery are the last resort
- Conservative health care has the power to improve overall well-being and decrease pain