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2009 Faculty Excellence Award Winners
Excellence in University Patient Care:
Ursula Amiot, Chiropractic
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Ursula I. Amiot, DC, is a faculty clinician at the Bloomington Natural Care Center. Dr. Amiot is an alumnus of Minnesota State University, Mankato, receiving her bachelor of science degree in exercise science in 1999. After graduating from Northwestern College of Chiropractic in 2004, she opened a private practice in Mahtomedi, Minnesota. Dr. Amiot is currently pursuing a diplomate in pediatrics from the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association.
Dr. Amiot believes in providing exceptional care for the whole family which includes education, exercise, lifestyle choices and spinal adjustments. She is certified in Webster Technique and has a special interest in extremity adjusting and family wellness care.
Dr. Amiot is married and enjoys golfing, running and experiencing all the outdoor activities the North Woods of Wisconsin has to offer.
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Excellence in Teaching: CAM ed team: Barry Taylor, Research Clinic Director, Kristine Westrom, MD, MS, Lori Baldwin, MOm LAc, Michele Maiers, DC, MPH, Sarah Weaver
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Dr. Taylor received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of North Dakota in 1996 and his Doctor of Chiropractic from Northwestern Health Sciences University in 2004. He is a member of the Minnesota Chiropractic Association, the American Chiropractic Association, the Minnesota Public Health Association, the American Public Health Association, and is a founding board member of World Altering Medicine. In addition to seeing patients in ongoing clincial trials, Dr. Taylor is teaching the newly created class: Foundations of Evidenced Informed Practice. Dr. Taylor is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Minnesota.
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Dr. Westrom received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1979 and her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Minnesota in 1985. She completed a three year Family Practice residency at Bethesda hospital in Saint Paul in 1988. From 1988 to 2002, Dr. Westrom worked as a family physician in Saint Cloud, MN, where her interests led her to combine complementary and alternative therapies with traditional family practice. In 2002, she was awarded a fellowship from the Minnesota Consortium for CAM Clinical Research through funding provided by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health. She is currently completing her Masters degree in Clinical Research at the University of Minnesota.
Since joining the WHCCS in 2006, Dr. Westrom has participated in two federally funded studies investigating back and neck pain in seniors. She is also a participating clinician in the recent Back-Related Leg Pain Study, funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and a co-investigator of the innovative Integrated Care for Low Back Pain Study, also funded by HRSA.
Dr. Westrom is a member of the American Holistic Medical Association and Board Certified in Family Practice. |
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Lori Baldwin received her Master of Oriental Medicine and License of Acupuncture from Northwestern Health Sciences University-Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in 2004, and joined the Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies in 2005. Since that time Lori has participated in two federally funded studies investigating back and neck pain in seniors, and 2 projects with the Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine; the Data Collection Project, and Clinician Form Project. Currently she is a participating clinician in the Integrated Care for Low Back Pain Study funded by HRSA, and a Volunteers of America Pilot Study where she is also co-investigator of a qualitative study assessing CAM care satisfaction. In 2009, Lori became a course instructor for the CAM Research Education Partnership Project funded by the National Institutes of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. |
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Dr. Maiers is an Assistant Professor at the WHCCS. She received both her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Chiropractic degrees from Northwestern Health Sciences University (NWHSU) in 2000. Dr. Maiers completed her Masters of Public Health degree at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health in January 2006. Since her employment at the WHCCS in 1999, she has worked on several research studies at NWHSU.
Currently, Dr. Maiers is the co-principal investigator of the Integrated Care for Low Back Pain Study, funded by the U.S. Health Services and Resources Administration. She is also co-investigator of three additional federally funded randomized clinical trials investigating chiropractic and exercise for seniors with low back and neck pain, and chiropractic for back-related leg pain. Dr. Maiers is also the lead investigator of the Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Data Collection Project, and co-investigator of several unique qualitative research studies evaluating patient perceptions and expectations of treatment for back and neck conditions.
As the Associate Dean of Research, she provides leadership and management for knowledge transfer related activities including design and pursuit of funding for new programs and projects. She is also a co-investigator and the lead instructor on the CAM Research Education Partnership Project funded by the National Institutes of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. |
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Sarah Weaver has been in clinical practice as a massage therapist for 17 years and came to Northwestern as part of the initial faculty of the school of massage therapy 10 years ago. She has developed curriculum for parts of the professional development course stream in the massage school as well as for the student clinic. Weaver came to teaching while pursuing a Master's of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing at the University of Minnesota where she taught English Composition including pre-professional writing courses for students hoping to enter health professions and the engineering profession. Ms. Weaver has also recently extended her clinical training and credentials by attaining a Masters of Oriental Medicine here at Northwestern. She is excited to add Traditional Chinese Medicine to her practice in the Bloomington Natural Care Center. It has been a special pleasure for Ms. Weaver to work with the interdisciplinary team developing the Evidence Informed Practice courses because it represents the true intersection between scholarly activity in the health sciences and the practical problems of patient care. |
Excellence in Research, Scholarship or Creative
Activities: Craig Shultz, DC, MS
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Dr. Schulz received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Northwestern Health Sciences University in 1999. In 2008, he completed his Master of Science degree in Clinical Research at the University of Minnesota 's School of Public Health . Since joining the WHCCS in 2001, Dr. Schulz has worked in various roles on nine randomized clinical trials; he is currently a co-investigator on several federally-funded randomized clinical trials investigating conservative treatments for musculoskeletal back and neck pain.
Key roles for Dr. Schulz include facilitating the development of extramural collaborations, study start up, and implementation of multisite trials. Current, as a co-investigator on a pilot study funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Schulz oversees activities with the future aim of evolving the project into a full-scale clinical trail. He is also a co-investigator on the federally funded back-related leg pain study being conducted jointly with the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research, which aims to identify effective conservative treatment options for patients with leg pain.
His research interests include: investigating the biomechanical mechanisms related to manual treatment of musculoskeletal spinal pain, assessing the effectiveness of commonly use conservative treatments, and exploring diagnostic assessment tools that identify unique characteristics of patients with spinal pain to better target therapeutic efforts.
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