Faces of Parker University

Faces of Parker University

Picture of Dr. Tan Tran ’00

Dr. Tan Tran ’00

Congratulations on winning the Super Bowl! What does this mean for the future of your career?

More than anything, I think it’s a super win for our profession. All around the NFL, chiropractors are a necessary component of the team medical staff. As we become more integrated with other providers such as physicians, athletic trainers, therapists, etc. and they can see the value of our work, more opportunities will be available for future DCs. In the world’s biggest sporting event, chiropractic physicians were working in their respective locker rooms getting their teams ready to compete for the Lombardi Trophy. I’m happy to say our team came away with the victory!

What are your new goals in the chiropractic profession as you continue to reach major milestones?

I have gained a wealth of knowledge while working in the NFL. I hope to expand chiropractic to reach higher levels in professional athletics. I hope to revolutionize how elite athletes train and treat their bodies with chiropractic techniques as a focal point. Every sport has unique requirements in movement and biomechanics. Chiropractic is uniquely positioned to help each and every athlete to achieve optimum performance via our knowledge of movement and our unique manipulative skills.

What led you to become a chiropractor?

I have always had a fascination of biomechanics and athletic performance. I played juniors tennis and knew at a young age that form and mechanics were critical in performance and injury prevention. There is no greater profession that allows one to analyze, physically manipulate and train athletes to perform at their peak level. Our training and knowledge of biomechanics makes us valuable members of any sports team or medical team.

Why did you choose to attend Parker University?

I really was attracted to Dr. Jim Parker’s vision for the profession. I was lucky enough to see and hear him speak at assembly before he passed. I was also very attracted to the comprehensive training that Parker offered. I was looking for an education that offered a balance of strong science background, diagnosis, manipulative techniques and philosophy. Parker was the perfect fit!

What path did you take after graduation that led you to your current practice?

I was an associate for 2 doctors before starting out on my own. I made some private practice mistakes early on. In hindsight, it would’ve been wiser to stay as an associate longer before going on my own. I felt that I was a good chiropractor and that was enough to be successful in solo practice. Unfortunately, I was wrong. It took me a few years before I realized I didn’t know much about private practice and that I needed to seek coaching.

How did you achieve overall success in your career?

First, I think it has been that I’ve never been complacent. To reach your dreams, you must point your arrow to the stars and to never waiver. I defined goals in my professional life and my personal life and put it to paper. Remember your professional life and personal life should coexist harmoniously and not contradict each other. One part of your life should support the other. Then I wrote down the necessary steps to reach the next level by defining tangible goals (income, revenue) and intangible goals (travel, family). Secondly, it has been the willingness to seek advice and learn from others. Even the GOAT Tom Brady look to others for coaching in football and in health.

What are your fondest memories of Parker University?

By far it’s my teachers and my classmates. I’ve had some amazing teachers at Parker and made lifelong friends. Other great memories are competing in the Chiro games and being a teaching assistant in the gross anatomy lab.

How do you stay connected with Parker as an alumnus?

I had a recent visit to the campus a couple of years ago when we had a game against the Dallas Cowboys. My former classmate, Dr. Celia Maguire was kind enough to buy me lunch at the school cafeteria and showed me around campus. I was so impressed on how Parker has grown. To be truthful, I hope to become more involved as an alumnus and help mentor new doctors and students.

How do you help spread the word of chiropractic?

Through every interaction I have with my patients. Through every adjustment I try to explain to my patients what I am trying to achieve. Often times they are grateful and become walking billboards for my clinics and my profession as a whole.

What is your advice to future chiropractors?

My advice would be is to define yourself and how your profession fits in your life. This is the most important step. I think it is extremely difficult to become successful without becoming truly in love with the art of chiropractic. This will be different for everyone but it is important to define your own space in this profession. Secondly, take care of yourself. This is a physical profession that will require your fitness to be in top shape. And we need to be a model of health for our patients to follow. Lastly is to seek advice and learn from others. Don’t ever be complacent in thinking you’ve reached our limit on knowledge. Keeping learning!

What have you learned since becoming a chiropractor?

Chiropractic has taught me so much. From patients to providers to professional athletes, it has given me the opportunity to meet thousands and thousands of patients from all cultures and walks of life. Connecting with so many people on a personal and professional level has given me so much knowledges to be a better person.

If you’d not become a chiropractor what would you be doing now?

I think it would be an entrepreneur in some field of health care or human development. These are my passions and I can’t imagine doing anything different.

Picture of Dr. Scharlene Gaudet ’15

Dr. Scharlene Gaudet ’15

Dr. Scharlene Gaudet attended Parker University graduating with degrees in a Doctor of Chiropractic, a Bachelor’s of science, a certification in animal chiropractic, and later received a diplomate in functional neurology from the American Board of Chiropractic Neurology. Dr. Gaudet organized the first all women’s adjusting seminar at Parker University and continues to be a strong advocate for advancing women in all aspects of medicine.  Dr. Gaudet’s passion for helping veterans has been and continues to be cultivated from interactions with her family members that served in our military.  She now works as a the clinical director for Synapse Human Performance Center, which specializes in traumatic brain injury, neuro-orthopedic rehabilitation, neurodegenerative, and metabolic disorders.  Dr. Gaudet also enjoys working at her private practice, Brainwaves Chiropractic Neurology, as well as her nonprofit, Guardians of Soldiers.

What led you to become a chiropractor?

Animals lead me to Chiropractic

Why did you choose to attend Parker University?

The Animal Chiropractic program

What path did you take after graduation that led you to your current practice?

I feel working with the Veteran population is very rewarding, and continue to pursue the clinical neuroscience path to help these men and women injured during service with brain injuries.

How have you found success in your career?

Success for me is being able to help patients and teach others.

What are your fondest memories of Parker University?

Parker’s Thanksgiving lunches for faculty, students, and family

How do you stay connected with Parker as an alumnus?

I am now back on campus at Synapse Human Performance Centers where we have the ability to work with Parker students and alumni.

How do you help spread the word of chiropractic?

Connecting with other practitioners in Chiropractic as well as practitioners outside our profession. Speaking at local events, and helping to host Parkers first Neurocon event.

What is your advice to future chiropractors?

Absorb as much as you can from your professors, and other Doctors in the field. Most of us began with an idea of what we thought we would do after graduation, yet many more opportunities presented themselves at graduation.

What have you learned since becoming a chiropractor?

Patients are looking for health care not sick care. Patients love our positive attitudes and appreciate that we love what we do.

If you’d not become a chiropractor what would you be doing now?

I would probably still be working at the Veterinary hospital.

Picture of Dr. Ryan Knight ’94

Dr. Ryan Knight ’94

What led you to become a chiropractor?

Growing up, I never wanted to be anything but a doctor.  I was just one of those kids that knew.  I knew I would need good grades and good work ethic, so that’s what I set out to do with my life.

I graduated as valedictorian of my high school and went to Dallas Baptist University on a Presidential Scholarship.  While attending college I was having some headaches, so I would come home to get adjusted by our family chiropractor.

One day, as we were talking about my schoolwork with pre-medicine, he asked if I had ever thought of being a chiropractor?  I sat stunned for a minute reflecting on the path that had led me that moment.

About 15 years prior to this, my dad was working construction and bent over to pick up a couple of studs and his back “went out.”  He couldn’t sit or stand, so his coworker took him to the ER.  Fast forward about a year and half, and he had been through two back surgeries, the last one being a fusion, leaving him in a plaster body cast from his axilla to over his pelvis.

The doctors were done, and so was he.  He went on social security and tried to make ends meet on about $600 per month plus what my mom could make cleaning houses. I literally remember people from church bringing us groceries, and my dad selling stuff to pay the mortgage.

Enter the chiropractor!  Someone finally told my dad about chiropractic.  He could hardly walk, sit, or stand for any real amount of time without pain, so what did he have to lose?  He didn’t even have money to pay him, but he offered to build him something if could get him better. The chiropractor took on the challenge, and within a year, my dad was back at work!

Back to the question of whether I had ever thought of becoming a chiropractor?  I had not specifically thought of chiropractic, but from that day forward, I knew exactly what kind of doctor I wanted to be!

Why did you choose to attend Parker University?

I chose Parker because it was a beautiful and up and coming school, and I resonated with the vision of growth that Dr. Jim Parker had for the school.

What path did you take after graduation that led you to your current practice?

I leased an office my last year at Parker and started remodeling it with my dad on the weekends.  Not getting through boards never crossed my mind!

After Graduating in September 1994, my wife, Amy and I opened Knight Family Chiropractic seeing our first patient November 28th, 1994.  I struggled along for 5 years until someone finally recommended a business coach. I had the will to succeed because I would never quit. I just didn’t know the way.

I grew 300% the next year, and I have never looked except to help others along the way.

How have you found success in your career?

The true success is what serving my team and my community for 26 years now has done to my heart.  When I was a new doctor, I was full of pride and thought this practice was about me.  The more I learned to actually apply the Parker Principles like, “Loving service in my first technique, and Develop a compassion to serve that is greater than the compulsion to survive,” is when I finally started to see true success.

What are your fondest memories of Parker University?

My fondest memories are of the friends I made while there. I still see several of them and get Christmas cards from others.  I also remember Dr. Parker walking around in his 3 piece suits with a cigar hanging out of his mouth!

How do you stay connected with Parker as an alumnus?

I am a lifetime member, but I mostly stay connected online, sponsoring a scholarship, attending career fairs, and occasionally speaking on campus. I would love to get more involved in the Alumni association.

How do you help spread the word of chiropractic?

I do not hide the fact that I am chiropractor! We are all over the place networking face to face, on social media, and on television.

What is your advice to future chiropractors?

Don’t go it alone. Find a mentor BEFORE you graduate.  I talk to too many students that have less than a year left, and they have no idea what they are going to do!

What have you learned since becoming a chiropractor?

This is the best profession on the planet!  When I look down at my worn-out hands one day, consider the hundreds of thousands of patients, and the millions of adjustments that me and my doctors have given, that is going to be a life well served.

If you’d not become a chiropractor what would you be doing now?

If I hadn’t become a chiropractor, I probably would have been an orthopedic surgeon. I’ve always been mechanically minded. It probably had something to do with growing up doing construction. This is way better!!

Picture of Dr. Tony DeRamus ‘99

Dr. Tony DeRamus ‘99

What led you to become a chiropractor?

I didn’t have any prior experience with chiropractic, but I knew that I wanted to treat athletes and bio-mechanically it made sense. It wasn’t until I heard Dr. Jim Sigafoose speak at a Parker Dallas seminar that I knew this is what I had been called to do.

Why did you choose to attend Parker University?

Even when Jim Parker was still alive, Parker was known as the “Harvard of Chiropractic Colleges.” I was just very fortunate that it was in my home state.

What path did you take after graduation that led you to your current practice?

I always knew that doing an associateship with a doctor who was successful and was willing to teach me all of the different facets of running a busy practice was invaluable. One of the most important comments for new graduates is that “you just don’t know, what you don’t know.”

How have you found success in your career?

Success comes in so many ways. There are so many different words we can use to describe why someone becomes successful, for me it has always been about being willing to learn.  I have always been a “listener.” No matter how successful you make think you have become, it is always important to take the time and listen to what others have to say. To me, it doesn’t matter if it is a very successful chiropractor, a chiropractic student, or someone from a completely different industry. Stop talking and listen.

 What have you learned since becoming a chiropractor?

My entire life is different as a result of becoming a chiropractor. I understand my personal health better, but most importantly, my children have been raised differently as a result of it. Have people called me various names, such as “health-nut,” or even “weird” at times? Of course, but one of my favorite quotes

 What is your advice to future chiropractors?

“Now is the time!” I have been hearing this mantra that chiropractic was about to become more mainstream since I graduated 20 years ago, but it never really came to fruition. However, there is a change taking place. Between the millennials desire for more holistic healthcare and the awakening of the general public about the dangers of medications due the opioid crisis, a major shift is taking place. Chiropractors are better suited than any other profession to take the lead. Be really good at what you do. DO NOT miss this opportunity!

What are your fondest memories of Parker University?

The most important and fondest memories of my time at Parker University was the friendships that were created. These friendships are truly life-long, and to be able to share your life with someone who is driven by the same purpose is amazing.

How do you stay connected with Parker as an alumnus?

Parker has clearly contributed to my success as a chiropractor, and it is important to give back in any way that we can. There are so many programs we can contribute to as an alumnus, but I feel the most important is to help the students, whether it be through scholarships, or even donating our time to teach them what we have learned, as well as allowing them to visit our clinics to “shadow” a successful office.

How do you help spread the word of chiropractic?

Spreading the word of chiropractic can simply come from being good at what you do. We know that our company respects and represents chiropractic very well, and part of our mission to open multiple clinics is to let the public see what that looks like. However, in today’s world of social media and digital marketing, you can spread the word much quicker as long as your message is professional and ethical.

If you’d not become a chiropractor what would you be doing now?

It is very difficult to picture myself doing anything other than being a chiropractor. I truly feel like God has called me to the profession. Even now that I am no longer seeing patients, but rather running the company on a full-time basis, I am still so connected by helping teach other chiropractors how to become successful in their own right.

Faces of Parker

Dr. Tan Tran ’00

Congratulations on winning the Super Bowl! What does this mean for the future of your career?

More than anything, I think it’s a super win for our profession. All around the NFL, chiropractors are a necessary component of the team medical staff. As we become more integrated with other providers such as physicians, athletic trainers, therapists, etc. and they can see the value of our work, more opportunities will be available for future DCs. In the world’s biggest sporting event, chiropractic physicians were working in their respective locker rooms getting their teams ready to compete for the Lombardi Trophy. I’m happy to say our team came away with the victory!

What are your new goals in the chiropractic profession as you continue to reach major milestones?

I have gained a wealth of knowledge while working in the NFL. I hope to expand chiropractic to reach higher levels in professional athletics. I hope to revolutionize how elite athletes train and treat their bodies with chiropractic techniques as a focal point. Every sport has unique requirements in movement and biomechanics. Chiropractic is uniquely positioned to help each and every athlete to achieve optimum performance via our knowledge of movement and our unique manipulative skills.

What led you to become a chiropractor?

I have always had a fascination of biomechanics and athletic performance. I played juniors tennis and knew at a young age that form and mechanics were critical in performance and injury prevention. There is no greater profession that allows one to analyze, physically manipulate and train athletes to perform at their peak level. Our training and knowledge of biomechanics makes us valuable members of any sports team or medical team.

Why did you choose to attend Parker University?

I really was attracted to Dr. Jim Parker’s vision for the profession. I was lucky enough to see and hear him speak at assembly before he passed. I was also very attracted to the comprehensive training that Parker offered. I was looking for an education that offered a balance of strong science background, diagnosis, manipulative techniques and philosophy. Parker was the perfect fit!

What path did you take after graduation that led you to your current practice?

I was an associate for 2 doctors before starting out on my own. I made some private practice mistakes early on. In hindsight, it would’ve been wiser to stay as an associate longer before going on my own. I felt that I was a good chiropractor and that was enough to be successful in solo practice. Unfortunately, I was wrong. It took me a few years before I realized I didn’t know much about private practice and that I needed to seek coaching.

How did you achieve overall success in your career?

First, I think it has been that I’ve never been complacent. To reach your dreams, you must point your arrow to the stars and to never waiver. I defined goals in my professional life and my personal life and put it to paper. Remember your professional life and personal life should coexist harmoniously and not contradict each other. One part of your life should support the other. Then I wrote down the necessary steps to reach the next level by defining tangible goals (income, revenue) and intangible goals (travel, family). Secondly, it has been the willingness to seek advice and learn from others. Even the GOAT Tom Brady look to others for coaching in football and in health.

What are your fondest memories of Parker University?

By far it’s my teachers and my classmates. I’ve had some amazing teachers at Parker and made lifelong friends. Other great memories are competing in the Chiro games and being a teaching assistant in the gross anatomy lab.

How do you stay connected with Parker as an alumnus?

I had a recent visit to the campus a couple of years ago when we had a game against the Dallas Cowboys. My former classmate, Dr. Celia Maguire was kind enough to buy me lunch at the school cafeteria and showed me around campus. I was so impressed on how Parker has grown. To be truthful, I hope to become more involved as an alumnus and help mentor new doctors and students.

How do you help spread the word of chiropractic?

Through every interaction I have with my patients. Through every adjustment I try to explain to my patients what I am trying to achieve. Often times they are grateful and become walking billboards for my clinics and my profession as a whole.

What is your advice to future chiropractors?

My advice would be is to define yourself and how your profession fits in your life. This is the most important step. I think it is extremely difficult to become successful without becoming truly in love with the art of chiropractic. This will be different for everyone but it is important to define your own space in this profession. Secondly, take care of yourself. This is a physical profession that will require your fitness to be in top shape. And we need to be a model of health for our patients to follow. Lastly is to seek advice and learn from others. Don’t ever be complacent in thinking you’ve reached our limit on knowledge. Keeping learning!

What have you learned since becoming a chiropractor?

Chiropractic has taught me so much. From patients to providers to professional athletes, it has given me the opportunity to meet thousands and thousands of patients from all cultures and walks of life. Connecting with so many people on a personal and professional level has given me so much knowledges to be a better person.

If you’d not become a chiropractor what would you be doing now?

I think it would be an entrepreneur in some field of health care or human development. These are my passions and I can’t imagine doing anything different.

 

Dr. Scharlene Gaudet ’15

Dr. Scharlene Gaudet attended Parker University graduating with degrees in a Doctor of Chiropractic, a Bachelor’s of science, a certification in animal chiropractic, and later received a diplomate in functional neurology from the American Board of Chiropractic Neurology. Dr. Gaudet organized the first all women’s adjusting seminar at Parker University and continues to be a strong advocate for advancing women in all aspects of medicine.  Dr. Gaudet’s passion for helping veterans has been and continues to be cultivated from interactions with her family members that served in our military.  She now works as a the clinical director for Synapse Human Performance Center, which specializes in traumatic brain injury, neuro-orthopedic rehabilitation, neurodegenerative, and metabolic disorders.  Dr. Gaudet also enjoys working at her private practice, Brainwaves Chiropractic Neurology, as well as her nonprofit, Guardians of Soldiers.

What led you to become a chiropractor?

Animals lead me to Chiropractic

Why did you choose to attend Parker University?

The Animal Chiropractic program

What path did you take after graduation that led you to your current practice?

I feel working with the Veteran population is very rewarding, and continue to pursue the clinical neuroscience path to help these men and women injured during service with brain injuries.

How have you found success in your career?

Success for me is being able to help patients and teach others.

What are your fondest memories of Parker University?

Parker’s Thanksgiving lunches for faculty, students, and family

How do you stay connected with Parker as an alumnus?

I am now back on campus at Synapse Human Performance Centers where we have the ability to work with Parker students and alumni.

How do you help spread the word of chiropractic?

Connecting with other practitioners in Chiropractic as well as practitioners outside our profession. Speaking at local events, and helping to host Parkers first Neurocon event.

What is your advice to future chiropractors?

Absorb as much as you can from your professors, and other Doctors in the field. Most of us began with an idea of what we thought we would do after graduation, yet many more opportunities presented themselves at graduation.

What have you learned since becoming a chiropractor?

Patients are looking for health care not sick care. Patients love our positive attitudes and appreciate that we love what we do.

If you’d not become a chiropractor what would you be doing now?

I would probably still be working at the Veterinary hospital.

 

 

Dr. Ryan Knight ’94

What led you to become a chiropractor?

Growing up, I never wanted to be anything but a doctor.  I was just one of those kids that knew.  I knew I would need good grades and good work ethic, so that’s what I set out to do with my life.

I graduated as valedictorian of my high school and went to Dallas Baptist University on a Presidential Scholarship.  While attending college I was having some headaches, so I would come home to get adjusted by our family chiropractor.

One day, as we were talking about my schoolwork with pre-medicine, he asked if I had ever thought of being a chiropractor?  I sat stunned for a minute reflecting on the path that had led me that moment.

About 15 years prior to this, my dad was working construction and bent over to pick up a couple of studs and his back “went out.”  He couldn’t sit or stand, so his coworker took him to the ER.  Fast forward about a year and half, and he had been through two back surgeries, the last one being a fusion, leaving him in a plaster body cast from his axilla to over his pelvis.

The doctors were done, and so was he.  He went on social security and tried to make ends meet on about $600 per month plus what my mom could make cleaning houses. I literally remember people from church bringing us groceries, and my dad selling stuff to pay the mortgage.

Enter the chiropractor!  Someone finally told my dad about chiropractic.  He could hardly walk, sit, or stand for any real amount of time without pain, so what did he have to lose?  He didn’t even have money to pay him, but he offered to build him something if could get him better. The chiropractor took on the challenge, and within a year, my dad was back at work!

Back to the question of whether I had ever thought of becoming a chiropractor?  I had not specifically thought of chiropractic, but from that day forward, I knew exactly what kind of doctor I wanted to be!

Why did you choose to attend Parker University?

I chose Parker because it was a beautiful and up and coming school, and I resonated with the vision of growth that Dr. Jim Parker had for the school.

What path did you take after graduation that led you to your current practice?

I leased an office my last year at Parker and started remodeling it with my dad on the weekends.  Not getting through boards never crossed my mind!

After Graduating in September 1994, my wife, Amy and I opened Knight Family Chiropractic seeing our first patient November 28th, 1994.  I struggled along for 5 years until someone finally recommended a business coach. I had the will to succeed because I would never quit. I just didn’t know the way.

I grew 300% the next year, and I have never looked except to help others along the way.

How have you found success in your career?

The true success is what serving my team and my community for 26 years now has done to my heart.  When I was a new doctor, I was full of pride and thought this practice was about me.  The more I learned to actually apply the Parker Principles like, “Loving service in my first technique, and Develop a compassion to serve that is greater than the compulsion to survive,” is when I finally started to see true success.

What are your fondest memories of Parker University?

My fondest memories are of the friends I made while there. I still see several of them and get Christmas cards from others.  I also remember Dr. Parker walking around in his 3 piece suits with a cigar hanging out of his mouth!

How do you stay connected with Parker as an alumnus?

I am a lifetime member, but I mostly stay connected online, sponsoring a scholarship, attending career fairs, and occasionally speaking on campus. I would love to get more involved in the Alumni association.

How do you help spread the word of chiropractic?

I do not hide the fact that I am chiropractor! We are all over the place networking face to face, on social media, and on television.

What is your advice to future chiropractors?

Don’t go it alone. Find a mentor BEFORE you graduate.  I talk to too many students that have less than a year left, and they have no idea what they are going to do!

What have you learned since becoming a chiropractor?

This is the best profession on the planet!  When I look down at my worn-out hands one day, consider the hundreds of thousands of patients, and the millions of adjustments that me and my doctors have given, that is going to be a life well served.

If you’d not become a chiropractor what would you be doing now?

If I hadn’t become a chiropractor, I probably would have been an orthopedic surgeon. I’ve always been mechanically minded. It probably had something to do with growing up doing construction. This is way better!!

 


Dr. Tony DeRamus ‘99

What led you to become a chiropractor?

I didn’t have any prior experience with chiropractic, but I knew that I wanted to treat athletes and bio-mechanically it made sense. It wasn’t until I heard Dr. Jim Sigafoose speak at a Parker Dallas seminar that I knew this is what I had been called to do.

Why did you choose to attend Parker University?

Even when Jim Parker was still alive, Parker was known as the “Harvard of Chiropractic Colleges.” I was just very fortunate that it was in my home state.

What path did you take after graduation that led you to your current practice?

I always knew that doing an associateship with a doctor who was successful and was willing to teach me all of the different facets of running a busy practice was invaluable. One of the most important comments for new graduates is that “you just don’t know, what you don’t know.”

How have you found success in your career?

Success comes in so many ways. There are so many different words we can use to describe why someone becomes successful, for me it has always been about being willing to learn.  I have always been a “listener.” No matter how successful you make think you have become, it is always important to take the time and listen to what others have to say. To me, it doesn’t matter if it is a very successful chiropractor, a chiropractic student, or someone from a completely different industry. Stop talking and listen.

 What have you learned since becoming a chiropractor?

My entire life is different as a result of becoming a chiropractor. I understand my personal health better, but most importantly, my children have been raised differently as a result of it. Have people called me various names, such as “health-nut,” or even “weird” at times? Of course, but one of my favorite quotes

 What is your advice to future chiropractors?

“Now is the time!” I have been hearing this mantra that chiropractic was about to become more mainstream since I graduated 20 years ago, but it never really came to fruition. However, there is a change taking place. Between the millennials desire for more holistic healthcare and the awakening of the general public about the dangers of medications due the opioid crisis, a major shift is taking place. Chiropractors are better suited than any other profession to take the lead. Be really good at what you do. DO NOT miss this opportunity!

What are your fondest memories of Parker University?

The most important and fondest memories of my time at Parker University was the friendships that were created. These friendships are truly life-long, and to be able to share your life with someone who is driven by the same purpose is amazing.

How do you stay connected with Parker as an alumnus?

Parker has clearly contributed to my success as a chiropractor, and it is important to give back in any way that we can. There are so many programs we can contribute to as an alumnus, but I feel the most important is to help the students, whether it be through scholarships, or even donating our time to teach them what we have learned, as well as allowing them to visit our clinics to “shadow” a successful office.

How do you help spread the word of chiropractic?

Spreading the word of chiropractic can simply come from being good at what you do. We know that our company respects and represents chiropractic very well, and part of our mission to open multiple clinics is to let the public see what that looks like. However, in today’s world of social media and digital marketing, you can spread the word much quicker as long as your message is professional and ethical.

If you’d not become a chiropractor what would you be doing now?

It is very difficult to picture myself doing anything other than being a chiropractor. I truly feel like God has called me to the profession. Even now that I am no longer seeing patients, but rather running the company on a full-time basis, I am still so connected by helping teach other chiropractors how to become successful in their own right.

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