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NOVEMBER 1 5 -1 6 | PA R I S , F R A N C E | HYAT T REGENCY PARI S E TOI LE P R ESENTATI ON OVER VI E W

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9:00-9:30 a.m. 9:00-9:30 Registration 9:30-9:45 a.m. 9:30-9:45 Welcome and program overview Welcome and recap of Day 1 9:45 -10:45 a.m. 10:45 -10:55 Heidi Haavik, D.C. , Ph.D. Yori Gidron, Ph.D. 10:45 -10:55 a.m. 10:45 -10:55 10:55 -11:55 a.m. 10:55-11:55 Ernest Kamavuako, Ph.D. Kelly Holt, D.C., Ph.D. and Imran Niazi, Ph.D. 11:55 a.m-12:55 p.m. 11:55-12:55 Sylvain Cremoux, Ph.D. Kelly Holt, D.C., Ph.D. and Imran Niazi, Ph.D. 1:00-2:30 p.m. 13:00-14:30 2:30-3:30 p.m. 14:30-15:30 John Downes, D.C. Gerard Clum, D.C. 3:30-4:30 p.m. 15:30-16:30 John Downes, D.C. “The Voice of the Patient” 4:30-5:00 p.m. 16:30-17:00 5:00-6:00 p.m. 17:00-18:00 Denis Alemi, D.C. “The Voice of the Profession” 6:00-6:45 p.m. 18:00-18:45 Jason Deitch, D.C. Program Close

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16

10 Minute Break Luncheon End of Scheduled Activities 30 Minute Nutrition Break

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Dr. Denis Alemi earned a

Doctor of Chiropractic from Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, California in 1994 where he graduated Cum Laude. After graduation, he practiced in San Francisco for three years as he continued his post-doctoral education in chiropractic neurology with Prof. Frederick

Carrick. Dr. Alemi was granted certifjcation in

Chiropractic Neurology through the American Chiropractic Neurology Board (DACNB) in 1997. He has since completed additional training in brain injury rehabilitation, clinical nutrition and neurodevelopmental disorders. Upon his return to France in 1998 he practiced in the French Alps for three years, in 2001 he established his practice in Paris. As an active member of the chiropractic community he has taught at the Institut Franco-Européen de Chiropraxie, has been a member of the Board

f Directors and past vice-president of the

Association Française de Chiropraxie and participated in national and international chiropractic and health care meetings (World Federation of Chiropractic, World Health Organization). He has also been a board member

f the medical association AMDPI in Paris and

has developed an esteemed inter-professional collaboration with the medical community. He is the founder and director of CerebroStim which aims to help children with neurodevelopmental disorders by implementing state of the art techniques in neuroscience. He will be presenting the recent and accumulating evidence that supports the involvement of the cerebellum in cognition, social and emotional behaviors.

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Chiropractic. He has lectured throughout the

world and has been recognized and honored for his efgorts over the years by international, national, state and local groups.

Dr. Sylvain Cremoux is

an assistant professor in the Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (Brain and Cognition Research Center) of the Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse, France). He was previously working in the Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science (LAMIH)

f the University of Valenciennes (France).

He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Movement Sciences (Neuroscience, Biomechanics) within the Institute of Sciences of the Movement of the Aix-Marseille University in 2013. His research focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the neurophysiological mechanisms regulating muscle activations, especially by the time-frequency analysis of muscles and cortical electrical activities, in healthy and pathological participants. His forté is the regulation of voluntary muscle contraction and its reorganization after cervical spine injury.

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2019 RUBICON CONFERENCE PRESENTERS

Dr. Jason Deitch is the

founder of AmpLIFEied.com. He’s the best-selling author

f ‘Discover Wellness: How

Staying Healthy Can Make You Rich’ and has been passionate about sharing the chiropractic message for almost two decades. He’s one of the profession’s most prominent thought leaders and communications strategists working with an exclusive group of the chiropractic profession’s largest and most prominent institutions, organizations, associations, vendors and most successful chiropractors. AmpLIFEied is the profession’s #1 free resource center to fjnd and share great stufg about living a healthy lifestyle with your practice’s social networks. Become an AmpLIFEier and enjoy these free resources to grow your impact and your practice. Together we can share the message of healthy living with millions of people around the world.

Dr. John Downes teaches

Global Assessment of the Extremities for the CEA. He has blended his years of clinical practice and teaching into a practical program

f learning that challenges

participants to enjoy a season of discovery. His clinical experience with athletes throughout the world from youth, college, professional and Olympic programs has provided opportunities to apply these principles and study the practicality of management protocols. Through lecture and dialogue, the role of extremities and how their function impacts spinal stability is reviewed in examination, assessment and management paradigms.

Dr. Downes has taught the CCEP material since

1993 and serves on the Board for the Council

n Extremity Adjusting. A 1986 graduate of

Life College, he is currently the Director of the Sport Science Institute and Vice President of Global Initiatives at Life University.

Dr. Yori Gidron is an Israeli

health educator who completed his Ph.D. in 1996 at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Dr. Gidron has served as a

senior researcher at the Carmel Institute for Social Studies, Zikron Yaakov, Israel; as a lecturer in behavioral medicine at Ben Gurion University, Beer-Shiva, Israel; and as a senior lecturer in health psychology at the University of Southampton, England. He held the academic rank of ‘Associate Professor,’ medical psychology at Tilburg University in The Netherlands, and ‘Professor,’ health research, Brunel University, West London, England. Professor Gidron is a faculty member at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Belgium. His research interests include power-spectral analysis of heart rate variability as a measure of autonomic nervous system activity. In late 2018 in the Journal

f Clinical Medicine, he and colleagues authored

a paper titled, “The Vagus Nerve Can Predict and Possibly Modulate Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing a Neuroimmunological Paradigm to Public Health.” In this paper, Gidron and his co-authors introduce “ ... a new paradigm to predict, understand, prevent and possibly treat such diseases based on the science of neuro- immunology and specifjcally by focusing on vagal neuro-modulation.”

Dr. Heidi Haavik is a

chiropractor who has also gained a Ph.D. in human

neurophysiology. She has

recently released the book ‘The Reality Check: A Quest To Understand Chiropractic From The Inside Out.’ This book describes in easy-to-understand language what happens in the brain when a chiropractor adjusts dysfunctional segments in the spine. The book (available at www.heidihaavik.com) is based on cutting-edge neuroscience research performed over the past two decades.

Dr. Haavik also runs a company that enlightens

the world about the science of Chiropractic (www.therealitycheck.com).

Dr. Haavik has used her neurophysiology

expertise to study the efgects of adjusting subluxations on the function of the central nervous system. Specifjcally, she has utilized techniques such as somatosensory evoked electroencephalography and transcranial magnetic brain stimulation to investigate the efgects of chiropractic adjustments of vertebral subluxations on somatosensory processing, sensorimotor integration and motor cortical

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Dr. Haavik graduated from the New Zealand

College of Chiropractic in 1999 and has practiced Chiropractic for more than 17 years. She was awarded her Ph.D. degree by the University of Auckland in 2008. She is the Director of Research at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic where she established and runs the Centre for Chiropractic Research. Dr. Haavik served as a member of the World Federation of Chiropractic’s Research Council for ten years. She has received numerous research awards and has published a number of papers in chiropractic and neuro-

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and presented about the known difgerences in brain function found in people with only minor spinal problems. In February 2019,

Dr. Holt was published in Scientifjc Reports,

a member journal of the Nature family of journals, as he and colleagues addressed “The efgects of a single session of chiropractic care on strength, cortical drive and spinal excitability in stroke patients.” This project was partially funded by The Rubicon Group, and Dr. Holt will share this study’s fjnding with us.

Dr. Ernest Kamavuako was

trained as a biomedical engineer, completing both his Master’s degree and Ph.D. degree at Aalborg University in Denmark. He has held academic and research positions in the United States (Indiana University, Purdue University), Canada (University of New Brunswick) and the United Kingdom (Imperial College, King’s College). His main research interests relate to the use of intramuscular recordings in the control of upper limb

prostheses. Other research interests include

neurorehabilitation, applied signal processing and Health Engineering to promote wellbeing.

Dr. Kamavuako is recognized as a world authority

in the application, use and interpretation of muscle signals, including high density EMG technologies (HD-EMG) as well as near infrared spectroscopy (NIR spectroscopy), and has been collaborating with chiropractic researchers from the New Zealand College of Chiropractic for the past three years, and he will share with you their startling results. physiology journals. She has presented her work to both chiropractic and neuroscience communities around Australasia, Africa, North America and Europe. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Manipulative and Phys- iological Therapeutics, Journal of Chiropractic Education, Chiropractic Journal of Australia and is a Review Editor in Movement Science and Sport Psychology for Frontiers in Psychol-

gy and Sports Science.
Dr. Haavik was named ‘Chiropractor of the Year’

in 2007 by both the New Zealand Chiropractic Association and the New Zealand College of Chiropractic Alumni Association. Her online membership is for those in the profession who want to understand the science of Chiropractic and want to be able to appropriately and ethically communicate this science with the public, their patients and other healthcare providers (www.therealitycheck.com).

Dr. Kelly Holt is one of

the inaugural chiropractors to graduate from the New Zealand College

f Chiropractic in 1998

earning his BSc. and BSc. in Chiropractic. He went

n to earn a Ph.D. in

Population Health from the University of Auckland in 2014. His Ph.D. focused on the efgects of chiropractic care on sensorimotor function and falls risk in older adults.

Dr. Holt’s areas of research interest include

falls prevention, neurology, reliability of vertebral subluxation indicators and population health. In May 2018, Dr. Holt shared his Ph.D. research fjndings about the multimodal changes they discovered in the older adults,

Dr. Imran Niazi obtained

his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering at Riphah University in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2005. He obtained his master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University and FH Lübeck, Germany in 2006, and he obtained his Ph.D. at the Department

f Health, Science and Technology at Aalborg

University in Denmark under the supervision of Professor Dario Farina and Associate Professor Kim Dremstrup. His Ph.D. focused on brain computer interfaces (BCIs) that involve direct com- munication pathways between the brain and an external device – an area of research very im- portant for stroke rehabilitation.

Dr. Niazi developed an interest in Chiropractic

while working with Dr. Heidi Haavik in Denmark where he witnessed some remarkable changes in brain function in subjects who had been given a chiropractic adjustment. Dr. Niazi has held a full-time Research Fellow position at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic since 2012 and retains strong collaborations within the biomedical engineering community.

Dr. Niazi holds an adjunct research position at

Aalborg University and at Auckland University

f Technology in Auckland New Zealand.
Dr. Niazi will be coming to Paris for The Rubicon

Conference to present the follow-on work on the above stroke pilot study that Dr. Holt will present to you. Since this original stroke study was published, the team has been back to Pakistan and followed up with another group of chronic stroke victims to see what four weeks of chiropractic care can do for them.

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A Neurophysiology Update – Basic Science Developments of Greatest Signifjcance to the Chiropractor Heidi Haavik, D.C., Ph.D. will review the implications of research conducted over the past two decades and explain what this means to chiropractors regarding the mechanism of their care. She will address the reliable fjnding that adjustments alter a particular somatosensory evoked electroencephalography peak, and that this peak’s changes following adjustments has been identifjed to

ccur in the prefrontal cortex. This can explain why some chiropractic patients sleep better, cope better, function better, feel better

and/or have less pain, because the prefrontal cortex directly controls the autonomic nervous system (both sympathetic and parasympathetic), the endocrine system, the cholinergic anti-infmammatory system, and also afgect the immune system. She will share with you a summary of where we are at today with the neurophysiological understanding of the impact of spinal function on brain function and will discuss how easily this can be communicated with the public and also what future implications this has for us as a profession. High Density EMG and Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy and Their Signifjcance to Chiropractic Research Ernest Kamavuako, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer, King’s College, London, United Kingdom will review current technology that is being used with respect to the evaluation of the impact of chiropractic care such as high-density EMG and near-infrared (NIR) spec-

troscopy. Dr. Haavik will join Dr. Kamavuako and help explain the clinical implications of this work.

Cerebellar Functions and Cognition and Behavioral Control: A Chiropractic Perspective

Dr. Denis Alemi, DC, DACNB, a member of the Franco-European Functional Neurology Association will present an a clinically
riented overview of cerebellar function as it relates to cognition and behavioral control.

Social Media Do’s & Dont’s for Practice Success in 2020 and Beyond Jason Deitch, D.C. will review today’s most valuable and relevant social networks that are worth investing time and energy in for use in informing and inspiring their communities. This is the defjnitive social media training to help chiropractors understand the do’s and don’ts of today’s most successful social media oriented chiropractic practices. Demonstration and Application of the Global Assessment System of Spinal Function and its Application to Patient Management – Part 1 John Downes, D.C. of Life University will present two clinical sessions. The fjrst drawing upon his decades of sports chiropractic experience at the highest levels of competition to bring a review of common lower extremity problems and the adjusting skills to efgectively and effjciently address them. Demonstration and Application of the Global Assessment System of Spinal Function and its Application to Patient Management – Part 2

Dr. Downes’ second session will integrate a neurologically-based global assessment system of spinal function and cervical spine

adjusting indications and corrections based on the global assessment system.

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PRESENTATION OVERVIEW

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Neuro-Immunology, the Vagus and the Chiropractor: A New Disease Paradigm Based Upon Vagal Neuro-Modulation Yori Gidron, Ph.D. a faculty member at Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Belgium will present on power-spectral analysis of heart rate variability as a measure of autonomic nervous system activity. In late 2018 in the Journal of Clinical Medicine he and colleagues authored a paper titled, “The Vagus Nerve Can Predict and Possibly Modulate Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases: Introducing a Neuroimmunological Paradigm to Public Health” . In this presentation Professor will speak to “…a new paradigm to predict, understand, prevent and possibly treat such diseases based on the science of neuro-immunology and specifjcally by focusing

n vagal neuro-modulation.”

Time-Frequency Analysis of Muscles and Cortical Electrical Activity – Exploring the Impact on Chiropractic Care Sylvain Cremoux, Ph.D. Lecturer, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse will review the analysis and interpretation of the neurophysiological mechanisms regulating muscle activations, especially by the time-frequency analysis of muscles and cortical electrical activities, in healthy and pathological participants that is currently being used in research experiments exploring the impact of chiropractic care.

Dr. Haavik will join Dr. Cremoux and help to explain the clinical implications of this work.

Cerebrovascular Accidents and Cervical Spine Adjusting: A Review of the Most Current Literature from Around the World Gerard W. Clum, D.C. will present an update on current literature associated with cervical spine adjusting and cervical artery issues. This presentation will include a review of risk-benefjt assessment strategy tools developed to help inform clinicians

f patient’s who may be of greater concern with respect to cervical artery issues.

The Stroke Study and Recovery Under Chiropractic Care – Insights and Updates Kelly Holt, D.C., Ph.D. and Imran Niazi, Ph.D. of the New Zealand College of Chiropractic, Auckland, New Zealand will present an in- depth discussion of a February 2019 article published in Scientifjc Reports, a member journal of the Nature family of journals, ad- dressing “The efgects of a single session of chiropractic care on strength, cortical drive, and spinal excitability in stroke patients” . Together they will also present preliminary results of an ongoing clinical trial of the efgects of a chiropractic adjustment among this same chronic stroke patient population. The Voice of the Patient “The Voice of the Patient” is often spoken about in the context of patient centered health care. This session will involve two patients and their chiropractors refmecting on the experience of each with chiropractic care in their specifjc situation. The Voice of the Profession “The Voice of the Profession” will involve a rapid-fjre global update from the leadership of The Rubicon Group to bring accomplishments and concerns from around the world impacting on the chiropractic profession and the global community

f chiropractic practitioners

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PRESENTATION OVERVIEW

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RUBICON LEADERSHIP

Christina Cunlifge, Ph.D., D.C. CBiol FRSB FCC (Paeds) President, McTimoney College of Chiropractic Guy F. Riekeman, D.C. Chancellor, Life University Ronald Oberstein, D.C. President, Life Chiropractic College West Oliver Broschinski President, Chiropraktik Akademie Adrian Wenban

B.Sc., B.App.Sc.(Chir), M.Med.Sc., P .Gr.Cert. (Med Ed), MACC.

Principal, Barcelona College of Chiropractic Phil McMaster, D.C. President, New Zealand College of Chiropractic The Rubicon Group is a collaboration of institutions, programs, associations and individuals that share a common emphasis relative to the chiropractic profession. The Rubicon Group was formed to provide greater attention and focus on key issues in the worldwide development and expansion of the chiropractic profession that are critical to the positioning, growth and impact of Chiropractic. To learn more about the Rubicon Group, visit TheRubiconGroup.org.