CELEBRATING CHIROPRACTIC
Dr. Michael Brickman
Heart & Hands Award
Dr. Patricia Tavares (CMCC, 1995)
is dedicated to bringing the benefits of
chiropractic to individuals in need both
here in Canada and abroad. A faculty
member at CMCC, she was the first
chiropractor to volunteer with Health
Mission Outreach, a charity providing oneday, free multidisciplinary clinics to those
in need across the Greater Toronto Area.
Leveraging her Spanish speaking skills
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and clinical experience, Dr. Tavares has
worked with CMCC Outreach Abroad in
mobile clinics in the Dominican Republic
since 2012 and she is currently working
there to coordinate the establishment of
a permanent clinic in Moca, Dominican
Republic, with World Spine Care.
Dr. Tavares hopes to influence
chiropractic work back home as well.
“Here at this World Spine Care Clinic, we
have the ability to order blood work and
higher diagnostic tests that in Ontario we
cannot do. This is the way I would like to
This type of work is important to increase
the chiropractic profile. It improves how the
public views chiropractors, and helps spread
the word that chiropractic is a necessary
health service.”
Dr. Patricia Tavares
see our profession practice. My ambition
is that the work here will lead to the
introduction of standards of regulation for
the profession in this country which could
then be a model for other countries…
including Canada.”
Recent Graduate Award
Dr. Luigi Nalli (CMCC, 2012) has seen
dramatic practice growth in his first few
years after leaving CMCC. Not willing to
limit his practice to preconceived notions
of where and how chiropractors can be
helpful, his clinic’s chiropractors have a
regular rotation at a satellite clinic at a
local gym, offer affinity programs for local
hospital staff, [