The Life Chiropractic College West Health Center, Hayward, Calif, recently hired Shawn Henry Dill, DC, as director of community outreach. He will serve as the Health Center’s liaison to the community by pursuing and maintaining numerous relationships with local businesses, government, nonprofit organizations, and chambers of commerce.

Shawn Henry Dill, DC, Life Chiropractic College West Health Center director of community outreach.

In this position, Dill will also instruct and assist student interns with their numerous community outreach and education programs. These student opportunities enhance the college’s participation in its community and provide an outstanding learning experience for Life West students.

Providing health care for 1,600 patient visits a week, the 32,968-sq-ft public Health Center is housed at the Life West campus. The Life West Health Center is operated by approximately 200 senior interns, who are guided by licensed doctors of chiropractic. The facility also employs more than 30 full-time and part-time administration staffers.

Recently returning from a nearly 10-year residence in Costa Rica, Dill brings health care management and community outreach experience to his new position. He opened and directed four chiropractic clinics in Costa Rica. During this time, he also served as team chiropractor to four first-division soccer club teams and produced and hosted a daily health-related radio show on the country’s highest rated talk-radio station.

“I am very excited to bring my years of clinic experience in Costa Rica to the future doctors of chiropractic who study at Life College of Chiropractic West,” said Dill. “In my new position, I hope to aid the students in further spreading the concept of achieving health through chiropractic to Hayward and the rest of the Bay Area.”

Four students from Parker College of Chiropractic (PCC), Dallas, have been awarded scholarships by the PCC Alumni Association. Scholarship recipients are Steven Black and Jennifer Greenfield, both of Irving, Tex, and Dana Applewhite and Cori Mooring, both of Dallas.

Scholarship recipients must have a 2.5 grade point average (GPA) or higher and must have completed at least 1 year (three trimesters) of the chiropractic curriculum. The award is also based on a student essay and faculty recommendation. Established by the alumni association to promote excellence in academics and community involvement, scholarships are awarded to four students each trimester.

Black, currently a tri-four student, is active in campus organizations and serves as president of the Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique Club.

Applewhite, a tri-five student, serves as a tutor at Foster Elementary School, has participated in Camp Celebrate the Kids, a camp for children with Down syndrome, and is a member of the Parker Mentor Program, an organization designed to help new students adjust to life at Parker.

Greenfield participates in many PCC activities, maintains a 3.7 GPA and consistently ranks high in her classes. 

Mooring is active in campus organizations and regularly teaches full CPR and CPR renewal courses on campus and in the surrounding community.

Jason Cook, DC, of Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Mo, made a June 10 appearance on a KTVI program, Fox 2 News in the Morning. Cook displayed the Associate™, the electronic screening device developed by Foot Levelers Inc, Roanoke, Va, to scan patients’ feet, and collect data. The Associate is an integral device at Logan College’s new state-of-the-art Learning Resources and Technology Center.

Cook and the morning show host spent several minutes discussing how the screening device helps chiropractors educate patients on the importance of foot alignment and stability to the rest of the body. One of the station’s crew members stood barefoot on the Associate, had his feet scanned, and listened while Cook explained how problems in the feet can contribute to conditions in the knees, hips, and up through the spine. At the end of the segment, Cook invited viewers having joint pains to call the college for an appointment to be scanned with the Associate.

After the interview with Cook aired, Logan College president George Goodman, DC, reported the phenomenal response the live broadcast generated. “That newscast was so well received by area viewers that our administrators found themselves scrambling to field calls from people wanting to have their aches and pains diagnosed by the Associate,” said Goodman. “We received at least 20 calls within the first 15 minutes of the report, all from people asking to come to Logan for the examination. We immediately developed a running log to track the calls and to schedule those interested for free examinations.”