Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS / PUBLISHED WORK (Con­tact for speak­ing inquiries)
free health talks

“Spring Clean­ing: The Role of Detox­i­fi­ca­tion in Health”

Pre­sen­ta­tion explain­ing why we need to detox, the dif­fer­ent forms of detox­i­fi­ca­tion, some of the myths and facts behind detox and what types of detox pro­grams are bet­ter than oth­ers. Baker Street Yoga, Maple­wood, NJ, March 2011.

“Sur­viv­ing the Gro­cery Store Jun­gle“
Pre­sen­ta­tion out­lin­ing pur­chas­ing tips that fam­i­lies can take to the gro­cery store, while con­nect­ing the health cri­sis to the cur­rent eco­nomic cri­sis. Lake­land Hills Fam­ily YMCA, Octo­ber 2010.

“Sports Nutri­tion for Per­for­mance and Injury Pre­ven­tion“
Pre­sen­ta­tion on opti­miz­ing nutri­tion dur­ing sports sea­son. Advanced Per­for­mance and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter, Short Hills, NJ, August 2010.

“Chi­ro­prac­tic and Func­tional Med­i­cine“
Pre­sen­ta­tion on CoAc­tive Health’s focus on Lifestyle Med­i­cine. Boonton-Holmes Pub­lic Library, Boon­ton, NJ, July 2010

“Lit­tle League Shoul­der”
Pre­sen­ta­tion describ­ing the eti­ol­ogy, diag­no­sis, and treat­ment of lit­tle league shoul­der to Union Springs, NY Lion’s Club, Jan­u­ary 2009.

“Health Sav­ings Accounts”
Pre­sen­ta­tion on the require­ments and ben­e­fits of Health Sav­ings Accounts for chi­ro­prac­tors and their patients as well as an intro­duc­tion to basic invest­ing prin­ci­ples. New York Chi­ro­prac­tic Col­lege, Sum­mer 2008.

“Mod­el­ing Lead­er­ship in Action– NYCC’s Pub­lic Health Club”
Overview of the role of chi­ro­prac­tic in pub­lic health and how stu­dents can become involved. Pub­lished as guest in June 17th, 2008 issue of Dynamic Chiropractic

“Diet-related behav­ioral mod­i­fi­ca­tions in times of eco­nomic restraint”
Con­tribut­ing author to book chap­ter to be pub­lished in Decem­ber 2011in the Hand­book of Diet, Behav­ior, and Nutrition.

“Why Nutri­tion for ADHD?”
Arti­cle in Spring 2010 issue of Path­ways to Fam­ily Well­ness mag­a­zine (http://www.pathwaystofamilywellness.org).

EDUCATION
Educational Background

Doc­tor of Chi­ro­prac­tic
New York Chi­ro­prac­tic Col­lege, Seneca Falls, NY

  • Mem­ber: Amer­i­can Chi­ro­prac­tic Asso­ci­a­tion, Asso­ci­a­tion of New Jer­sey Chiropractors
  • Awards/Recognitions: BJ Palmer Memo­r­ial Award, Ken­neth Pad­gett Schol­ar­ship, Dis­tin­guished Ser­vice in the Basic Sci­ences Award, Amer­i­can Chi­ro­prac­tic Foun­da­tion 2008  Schol­ar­ship, Amer­i­can Chi­ro­prac­tic Asso­ci­a­tion Aux­il­iary Schol­ar­ship 2009, Biofreeze Schol­ar­ship, President’s Schol­ar­ship, Hor­a­tio Alger Penn­syl­va­nia Scholar, Ameri­corps Alum­nus, & Con­sec­u­tively named to New York Chi­ro­prac­tic College’s Dean’s List
  • Lead­er­ship: Chi­ro­prac­tic Pub­lic Health Club (Pres­i­dent), Chi­ro­prac­tic Well­ness Club (Trea­surer), SICA Club, Intra­mural Bas­ket­ball (Team Captain)
  • State Licenses: New Jer­sey, Delaware

Cer­ti­fied Clin­i­cal Nutri­tion­ist (CCN)
Clin­i­cal Nutri­tion Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Board, August 2010

Mas­ter of Sci­ence in Applied Clin­i­cal Nutri­tion
New York Chi­ro­prac­tic Col­lege, Seneca Falls, NY
Grad­u­a­tion with Hon­ors, August 2009

Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence — “Social Issues and Health“
Juni­ata Col­lege, Hunt­ing­don, PA, Decem­ber 2006

CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT
Continuing Education

 

–Reclaim­ing Vibrant Health: Mol­e­c­u­lar Per­spec­tives for Liv­ing Younger Longer
–August 2011, Bal­ti­more, MD
–Clin­i­cal Break­throughs in the Toxicity-Chronic Dis­ease Con­nec­tion
Jan­u­ary 2011, Jer­sey City, NJ
–Free­dom for Fam­ily Well­ness Sum­mit
Novem­ber 2010, Reston, VA
–Cer­ti­fied Clin­i­cal Nutri­tion­ist Exam­i­na­tion
August 2010, Seneca Falls, NY
–Asso­ci­a­tion of New Jer­sey Chi­ro­prac­tors Spring Con­ven­tion
April 2010, Asbury Park, NJ
–Parker Sem­i­nars Las Vegas
Jan­u­ary 2010, Las Vegas, NV
–Epi­cen­ter of Chi­ro­prac­tic (EPOC) Philly fea­tur­ing Dr. Patrick Gen­tempo
Novem­ber 2009, Philadel­phia, PA
–8 Weeks to Well­ness, 2-day train­ing
Fall 2009, New­town, PA
–Epi­cen­ter of Chi­ro­prac­tic (EPOC) Philly fea­tur­ing Dr. Christo­pher Kent
June 2009, Philadel­phia, PA
–Master’s Cir­cle Train­ing with Dr. Bob Hoff­man
Spring 2009, New­town, PA
–Integrity Man­age­ment Sem­i­nar
Spring 2009, Philadel­phia, PA
–Prac­tice man­age­ment sem­i­nar empha­siz­ing office pro­ce­dures, billing and orga­ni­za­tional details nec­es­sary to the estab­lish­ment of an effi­cient chi­ro­prac­tic health care prac­tice.
–Motion Pal­pa­tion Sem­i­nar – Func­tional Assess­ment of the Upper Quad­rant with Dr. Corey Camp­bell
Spring 2009, Seneca Falls, NY
–Parker Sem­i­nars Las Vegas
Jan­u­ary 2009, Las Vegas, NV
–New York Chi­ro­prac­tic Coun­cil Con­ven­tion
Octo­ber 2008, Tar­ry­town, NY
–Motion Pal­pa­tion Sem­i­nar – Tran­si­tional Areas with Dr. David Gale
Octo­ber 2008, Seneca Falls, NY
–Well­ness Nutri­tion and Nat­ural Health with Dr. James Chest­nut
July 2008, Port Wash­ing­ton, PA
–Cen­ter for Mind and Body Med­i­cine: Food as Med­i­cine
June 2008, Bal­ti­more, MD
–Action for Healthy Kids
April 2007, State Col­lege, PA
–Con­fer­ence focus­ing on issues on well­ness and aca­d­e­mic suc­cess in Penn­syl­va­nia school districts

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Owner, CoAc­tive Health, August 2009 to Present

  • Clin­i­cal Nutri­tion prac­tice focus­ing on fibromyal­gia, mus­cle pain syn­dromes, food allergies/sensitivies, headaches/migraines, medicinally-induced nutri­ent defi­cien­cies, chronic stress, hor­monal dis­or­ders, and more.

Con­sul­tant, ZenfullyDelicious.com

  • (TBD) Cre­ate webi­nars, live web-recordings, e-books and information-based Nutri­tion resources.
  • (TBD) Con­duct Celiac Restau­rant Aware­ness Campaign
  • (TBD) Coach clients on gen­eral health and well­ness in online-discussion board format.

CHIROPRACTIC ASSOCIATE, August 2010 to Novem­ber 2010

East Hanover Chi­ro­prac­tic Cen­ter, East Hanover, NJ

  • Treated patients with Diver­si­fied, Gras­ton, Myofas­cial Release, Acti­va­tor, Flexion-Distraction, Clin­i­cal Nutri­tion, and trained in Pro-Adjuster technique.
  • Worked with Auto/Personal Injury, Medicare, Cash, and Out-of-Network insurance.
  • Learned basic office and insur­ance procedures.

Chi­ro­prac­tic Extern­ship: Well­ness Solu­tion Cen­ters, New­town, PA (Spring 2010)

  • Observed highly suc­cess­ful 10,000 square foot multi-disciplinary well­ness center.
  • Learned wellness-based out­comes assess­ment tech­niques includ­ing aspects of “8 Weeks to Well­ness” pro­gram

Chi­ro­prac­tic Intern (2009/2010)

Depew, NY Stu­dent Health Cen­ters, New York Chi­ro­prac­tic College

  • Prac­ticed chi­ro­prac­tic in multi-DC super­vised clinic.
  • Exam­ined, diag­nosed, and treated patients through adjust­ments, ther­a­peu­tic treat­ments and education
  • Inter­acted pro­fes­sion­ally with patients and fam­ily mem­bers to encour­age sound health care practices
  • Per­formed ancil­lary pro­ce­dures and assisted fac­ulty clin­i­cians in pro­vid­ing treat­ment ther­a­pies such as strength­en­ing exer­cises, ultra­sound and mus­cle stimulation
  • Man­aged com­plex cases includ­ing chronic pain, co-morbidities, and polypharmacy.

Light­house Clinic, Buf­falo, NY, July 2009

  • Prac­ticed chi­ro­prac­tic in free super­vised clinic to under­served low-income population

Uni­ver­sity of Buf­falo Clin­i­cal Rota­tion, Buf­falo NY, Sep­tem­ber 2009

  • Treated stu­dents and fac­ulty with diver­si­fied adjust­ments and pos­tural education

Sal­va­tion Army Clin­i­cal Rota­tion, Tonawanda/Buffalo NY, May/July 2007

  • Pro­vided qual­ity chi­ro­prac­tic care to med­ically under­served geri­atric population

4-Week Extern­ship, Well­ness Solu­tion Centers

  • Observed mul­ti­ple clin­i­cians in highly suc­cess­ful 10,000 sq ft. multi-disciplinary chi­ro­prac­tic and well­ness center.
  • Intro­duced to office and billing procedures.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Chi­ro­prac­tor, Nutri­tion­ist & Founder, CoAc­tive Health
Located in Mont­clair and Short Hills, NJ (http://www.CoActiveHealth.com)
Jan­u­ary 2010-present
–Pro­vide Chi­ro­prac­tic and Func­tional Med­i­cine to prac­tice members.

Buf­falo Nutri­tion Exam­iner
July 2009-April 2010
Com­posed arti­cles on nutri­tion top­ics with a local angle

Teach­ing Assis­tant, NYCC Nutri­tion Pro­gram
April 2009-March 2010
–Assist pro­fes­sor in grad­ing and act as a liai­son between stu­dents and faculty

Career Devel­op­ment Cen­ter
May 2007-April 2008
–Assisted stu­dents with CDC tools and resources.
–Entered employ­ment and equip­ment data in to the NYCC Career Oppor­tu­ni­ties Data­base
–Fielded employer ques­tions over the phone regard­ing sub­mis­sion of job listings

Ref­er­ences Avail­able Upon Request