PresidentWorld Spine Care
Scott Haldeman DC, MD, PhD, FRCP(C), FCCS(C), FAAN holds the positions of Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, Visiting Professor, Southern California University of Health Sciences and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences Ontario Tech University. He is the co-founder and currently serves as President of World Spine Care (WSC), a non-profit organization endorsed by the Decade of the Bone and Joint, an initiative of the WHO. This Foundation has the goal of helping people in underserved regions of the world who suffer from spinal disorders. WSC has established clinics in Botswana, India, Dominican Republic, and Ghana. The WHO featured the WSC Botswana program in the Integrated People-Centre Health Services (IPCHS) Framework.He currently chairs the Global Spine Care Initiative (GSCI) to develop evidence-informed, practical, and sustainable, spine health care models for communities around the world. The GSCI has developed and published Patient and Clinician Guides for telehealth or virtual evidence-based management of spinal disorders during the periods of physician distancing such as the COVID-19 pandemic or in remote communities where there is no clinician with training in spine care. He is Past President of the North American Spine Society, the American Back Society. He was appointed International Ambassador for the Decade of the Bone and Joint. He has published over 240 articles or book chapters and has authored or edited 8 textbooks. He is certified by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He presided over The Bone and Joint Decade 2000 to 2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders. He served as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the NIH National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health.