We are back and delighted to announce the release of our next episode of the icarechirocast podcast. Our guests for this episode are Drs Ian Coulter and Carlo Ammendolia, both of whom have a long and distinguished history and track record in chiropractic research and are two highly influential people in the world of chiropractic.

Dr Coulter is a senior health policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. He is a professor emeritus at UCLA and a research professor at the Southern California University of Health Sciences. Ian has more than 40 years of experience conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and integrative medicine (IM) and has published over 200 articles and books. He holds a B.A. and M.A. Honours in sociology from the University of Canterbury and a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He also received an honorary doctorate in humanities from the Southern California University of Health Sciences; was a Pew Fellow at the RAND/UCLA Center for Health Policy Study from which he received a certificate in health policy analysis; and has a diploma in educational management from the Institute of Educational Management, Harvard University. His chiropractic credentials are that he is a past President of CMCC, in Toronto.

Dr Carlo Ammendolia is the Director of the Spine Clinic and the Spinal Stenosis Program at the Rebecca MacDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Diseases at Mount Sinai Hospital. He received his MSc degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research and his PhD in Clinical Evaluative Sciences from the University of Toronto. Dr Ammendolia is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, the Department of Surgery and the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. In 2012 and 2017, Dr Ammendolia was the recipient of the Professorship in Spine Award from the Department of Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine.  Dr Ammendolia has been in clinical practice for over 37 years and now combines clinical practice, research and teaching in the areas of non-operative treatment of mechanical, degenerative and inflammatory spinal disorders with a special interest in degenerative spinal stenosis. 

Join us for this episode where Dave Newell and Stephen Perle cover a wide range of topics with our guests and also present their regular segments, with Stephen's segment on the Chiropractic & Manual Therapies articles of interest and Dave's Context Corner.

The podcasts can be found here;

iOS or Android:  https://www.spreaker.com/show/icarechirocast
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/icarechirocast/id1345104836

**Now also available on Spotify here;
https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ycwc3wVvkcaxDCJDnkC5B?si=SmYOfqSlR5m2qVwWF_1uCQ

The show notes can be found here;
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbddr6fzmqfu7cz/Show%20Notes%20-%20Ep%2021.pd