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Flora-Joan Rotterdam, PhD

Retired
Newcastle University
Blackalls Park, New South Wales, Australia

Name: Joan van Rotterdam
Lives in: Blackalls Park, near Lake Macquarie NSW
Profession: Chiropractor/Researcher
B Sc , Grad Dip (Chiropractic)
PhD (Community Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology)
Affiliation: University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

I graduated in 1986 from the Sydney College of Chiropractic and started my own practice in 1991 in Toronto, Lake Macquarie, NSW. At present I am engaged in clinical practice on a part-time basis. In 2006 after passing my confirmation year I commenced my PhD candidature in the area of Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the role of Quality of Life questionnaires, graduating with my PhD in April 2019.

I have also collaborated on other research projects within a multidisciplinary setting, with a not for profit organisation called Hands-on-Health Australia (HoHA). I am a board member of HoHA and also help to organise a chiropractic presence at the Murri and Koori Aboriginal Knockouts over the long weekend in October.

In 2020 I was awarded chiropractor of the Year with the Australian Chiropractors Association (ACA) for my work in creating a Reconciliation Action plan for the ACA. In recent years I have chaired the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rural and Remote Practitioners Network (ARRPN) and the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) to support the role of chiropractors in rural and remote practice.

Presently I am working with the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) as secretary of the Complimentary and Integrative Rehabilitation Medicine (CIRM) group after winning a fellowship with them in 2022. As part of a dedicated research group we are presently conducting a scoping review on CIRM databases publicly available for research.

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