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. 2011 Sep;55(3):146.

John J. Triano, DC, PhD

PMCID: PMC3154054  PMID: 21886271

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John J. Triano, DC, PhD

Dean, Graduate Education & Research Programs Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College

The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association is delighted to announce that Dr. John J. Triano has joined the JCCA as an Assistant Editor.

Dr. John J. Triano, DC, PhD, is a graduate of Logan College (DC), Webster College (MA), and the University of Michigan (PhD). He is a Fellow of the College of Chiropractic Scientists (Canada) and serves as an editorial advisor to the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (since 1986), to Spine (since 1994), The Spine Journal (2000–2007) and The BackLetter. Dr. Triano was Research Professor in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Arlington, Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. To date he has written 82 scientific and clinical articles and 25 book chapters. From 1992 to 2005 he was the Co-Director of Conservative Medicine and Founding Director for the Chiropractic Division at the Texas Back Institute, a multidisciplinary spine facility caring for 15,000 new patients per year. Currently, he is Professor and Dean of Graduate Education at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College with cross-appointment as Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Sciences, McMaster University.

Dr. Triano is the recipient of a number of awards and honors including the ICA Researcher of the Year (1987), FCER Researcher of the Year (1989), AHCPR Service Award (1993), the US Department of Health and Human Services (1993), ACA Council on Rehabilitation Doctor of the Year Award (1998), DC Person of the Year (2002) and the 2005 Earl Homewood Professorship. He regularly serves as a reviewer on US National Institutes of Health grant study section panels on pain, centres of excellence for research, complementary and alternative medicine. From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Triano served as the only chiropractor on the US National Committee for Quality Assurance that recently released its first Spine Physician Recognition Program in the US, a program that acknowledges quality spine care by chiropractors on par with medical physicians. He is recipient of the first NCCAM-NIH/CIHR research award supporting studies in the mechanisms of spinal manipulation.

Dr. Triano’s research approach is focused on the understanding of the nature of the interaction between the joint and related structures of bone, cartilage, ligaments, discs, tendons, muscles and neural components. These relationships are of paramount interest to the sound clinical practice as it allows optimal design of treatment strategies for pain management, rehabilitation, exercise and life style change. The primary research tools used include biomechanics, soft-tissue elastography, computer modeling and clinical trials.


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