Twenty-one Chiropractic Health Care (CHC) Section members represented the chiropractic profession at the APHA Annual Meeting in San Diego, Oct. 25-29, 2008, by staffing the Section's booth in the exhibit hall. The booth included a poster of recent chiropractic related public health publications, the public health issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT www.jmptonline.org), chiropractic health related handouts from the American Chiropractic Association (ACA www.acatoday.com), materials from the Bone and Joint Decade (www.usbjd.org), and other chiropractic related materials. Hundreds of APHA attendees visited the booth and participated in an Osteoporosis Risk Questionnaire and were offered a safety checklist to help prevent falls in and around the home.

Chiropractic Health Care section representatives who served as chiropractic representatives at the 2008 APHA booth included: Rand Baird, DC, MPH; Jason Bartlett, DC; Kara Burnham, PhD; Lori Byrd, BA; Elaine Cooperstein, DC; Karol A. Donaubauer, DC; Andrew S. Dunn, DC, MEd, MS; Paul Dougherty,DC ; Jonathon Egan, DC, MPH;  Bart Green, DC, MSEd; Michael Haneline, DC, MPH; Claire Johnson, DC, MSEd; John Mosby, DC, MD; Harrison T. Ndetan, MSc, MPH; Joel Notick; John Pammer, DC; Mary Pfeifer, DC; Irene N. Paulavicius, MA; Michael Ramcharan, DC; Gary Schultz, DC; and John Stites, DC.

A View of the Booth