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Daniel Redwood, DC, is a chiropractor, acupuncturist, and writer who practiced in Virginia and Washington, DC, for 26 years before joining the faculty of Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City in mid-2006. In addition to his role as Associate Professor at the college, he will begin to see patients part-time in Overland Park, Kansas in early 2007.
Dr. Redwood is the author of A Time to Heal: How to Reap the Benefits of Holistic Health (1993), Contemporary Chiropractic (Churchill Livingstone, 1997), and Fundamentals of Chiropractic (Mosby, 2003). He is associate editor and book review editor of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and an editorial board member of The Journal of the American Chiropractic Association.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Redwood received his chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic, where he was student body president. A former Director of Special Projects for the International Chiropractors Association, he was also a recipient of the Outstanding Young Men of America Award. From 1980-89, he practiced in Washington. DC, where his clientele ranged from high-ranking members of Congress to the inner city unemployed. He was Vice President and Legislative Chair for the state chiropractic association in the District of Columbia.
Dr. Redwood received postgraduate acupuncture training from New York College of Chiropractic and the National University of Health Sciences, and has taken additional coursework at the Traditional Acupuncture Institute.
Dr. Redwood was the first chiropractor invited to speak at the National Museum of Health and Medicine. He spoke there at a 1993 conference sponsored by the Museum and the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, on the topic "Chiropractic and the Emerging Holistic Paradigm". He has also lectured at courses on complementary and alternative medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. In addition, he has been an invited presenter at the Chiropractic Research Agenda conference and has given postgraduate lectures at Cleveland Chiropractic College.
Dr. Redwood's writing has appeared frequently in Noetic Sciences Review and Pathways (Washington, DC). His book reviews, interviews, commentaries, and other writings have also appeared in Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers: Resource Guide, Common Ground, Meridians, Free Spirit, Nexus, Knoxville Perspectives, Kharon, Journal of Couples Therapy, Intervention Magazine, The Australian Comprehensive Medical Association Journal, Journal of the American Chiropractic Association, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, and International Review of Chiropractic.
He wrote the chapter on chiropractic in Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Churchill Livingstone, 1996), the first textbook on the subject by a major medical publisher. This text is currently in its third edition (Elsevier, 2006). Other textbook chapters by Dr. Redwood include "Musculoskeletal Disorders Overview" in Physician's Guide to Alternative Medicine (Medical Economics, 1999) and "Chiropractic Adjustment for Low Back Pain" in Current Review of Complementary Medicine (Current Medicine, 1999). Dr. Redwood won the Virginia Chiropractic Association's literary award several times.
As a singer and songwriter, he has performed on radio and television, including an appearance on The Larry King Show. In 2000, one of his songs was chosen by the Smithsonian Institution for inclusion in their Best of Broadside collection.
Dr. Redwood lives with his wife Beth in Overland Park, Kansas.