David J. Conner, DC, QME, DAAMLP 429 William Street Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone: (707) 447-8100 Fax: (707) 447-9900 drc@connerchiropractic.com www.connerchiropractic.com SELECTED OCCUPATIONAL HISTORY Chiropractor, Conner Chiropractic Care Corporation, Vacaville, CA, 2005-present Vice President, Maximum Fitness, LLC, dba Gold s Gym Vacaville, Vacaville, CA, 2003-present Clinic Director, Health Works Rehab Facility, Vacaville, CA, 2004-2005 Chiropractor, Conner Chiropractic Center, Vacaville, CA, 2002-2005 Vice President, Summit Fitness Corporation, dba Gold s Gym Vacaville, Vacaville, CA, 1999-2003 Chiropractor, Office of David J. Conner, D.C., Vacaville, CA, 1998-2002 Vice President, Summit Fitness Corporation, dba Gold s Gym Fairfield, Fairfield, CA 1998-2002 Clinic Director, Chiropractor, Petrie Chiropractic Clinic/Injury & Sports Rehab, Vallejo, CA, 1998-2002 EDUCATION and LICENSURE Doctor of Chiropractic, Licensed in the State of California, License# DC-25846, 1998-present Doctorate of Chiropractic, Life Chiropractic College West, San Lorenzo, CA, 1998 X-Ray Supervisor and Operator, State of California Radiography, Permit# RHC 146768, 1998 Bachelor of Science in Liberal Arts, Regents College of New York, Whittier, NY, 1998 National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Part 4, 1998 National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Part 3, 1998 National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Part 2, 1997 National Board of Chiropractic Examiners, Part 1, 1996 Associate of Arts in Business Administration, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA, 1994
Associate of Arts in Natural Science, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA, 1994 Associate of Arts in General Education, Napa Valley College, Napa, CA, 1994 SELECTED POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS and DIPLOMATES Whiplash Injury Biomechanics & Traumatology, Module 4: Medicolegal Issues; Fundamentals for Practitioners and Forensic Experts. Foundations for successful outcome in medicolegal cases. Preparing for depositions, arbitration, and court. Use of demonstrative evidence. Learn the common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Learn how to take advantage of your opponent s weaknesses. Gain total confidence in all medicolegal proceedings. Spine Research Institute of San Diego, Dr. Arthur C. Croft, PhD(c), DC, MSc, MPH, FACO, San Francisco, CA, 2011 Whiplash Injury Biomechanics & Traumatology, Module 3: Narrative Report Writing and Practice Development; Principles of Impairment Rating and Forensic Documentation. Comprehensive and compelling narrative report construction. Learn how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls. Learn the latest cutting edge techniques and rebuttal strategies. Learn today s critical forensic documentation skills and impairment requirements. How to expand your PI practice. Spine Research Institute of San Diego, Dr. Arthur C. Croft, PhD(c), DC, MSc, MPH, FACO, San Francisco, CA, 2011 Whiplash Injury Biomechanics & Traumatology, Module 2: Advanced Diagnostics, Treatment, and Auto Crash Reconstruction; Management Principles in Personal Injury. Critical history taking and physical examination skills. Radiographic and advanced imaging, including CT, MRI, scintigraphy, PET, SPECT, and others. Electrodiagnostic testing and their applications in whiplash. Therapeutic approaches to successful management of whiplash and mild traumatic brain injuries. Risk analysis II. Spine Research Institute of San Diego, Dr. Arthur C. Croft, PhD(c), DC, MSc, MPH, FACO, San Francisco, CA, 2011 Whiplash Injury Biomechanics & Traumatology, Module 1: Advanced Topics; the Fundamental Science. In depth review of our current state of knowledge of the whiplash phenomenon, including all factors affecting injury risk and outcome. In-depth biomechanics, traumatology, epidemiology, review of outcome studies, and common sequelae of whiplash, including brain injuries, pain syndromes, thoracic outlet syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, and chronic pain disorders. Risk analysis I. Spine Research Institute of San Diego, Dr. Arthur C. Croft, PhD(c), DC, MSc, MPH, FACO, San Francisco, CA, 2011 Qualified Medical Evaluator, State of California Department of Industrial Relations Division of Workers Compensation Medical Unit, 2011 Diplomate, American Academy of Medical Legal Professionals, 2011 Accident Reconstruction: Research, Causality and Bodily Injury, Delta V issues correlated to injury and mortality, side impact crashes and severity of injuries, event data recorder reports correlated to injury, frontal impact kinematics, crash injury metrics with many variables and inquiries related to head restraints. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2011
Accident Reconstruction: Skid Marks, Time, Distance, Velocity, Speed Formulas and Road Surfaces, The mathematical calculations necessary utilizing time, distance, speed, coefficients of friction and acceleration in reconstructing an accident. The application of the critical documentation acquired from an accident site. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2011 Accident Reconstruction: Causality, Bodily Injury, Negative Acceleration Forces, Crumple Zones and Critical Documentation, Factors that cause negative acceleration to zero and the subsequent forces created for the vehicle that get translated to the occupant. Understanding critical documentation of hospitals, ambulance reports, doctors and the legal profession in reconstructing an accident. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 Accident Reconstruction: Terms, Concepts and Definitions, The forces in physics that prevail in accidents to cause bodily injury. Quantifying the force coefficients of vehicle mass and force vectors that can be translated to the occupant and subsequently cause serious injury. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 MRI Clinical Application, The clinical application of the results of space occupying lesions. Disc and tumor pathologies and the clinical indications of manual and adjustive therapies in the patient with spinal nerve root and spinal cord insult as sequelae. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Magdy Shady MD, Neurosurgeon, Long Island, NY, 2010 MRI Methodology of Analysis, MRI interpretation sequencing of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine inclusive of T1, T2, STIR and 3D gradient studies to ensure the accurate diagnosis of the region visualized. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Robert Peyster MD, Neuroradiologist, Long Island, NY, 2010 MRI Spinal Pathology, MRI interpretation of bone, intradural, extradural, cord and neural sleeve lesions. Tuberculosis, drop lesions, metastasis, ependymoma, schwanoma and numerous other spinal related tumors and lesions. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Robert Peyster MD, Neuroradiologist, Long Island, NY, 2010 MRI Disc Pathology and Spinal Stenosis, MRI interpretation of bulged, herniated, protruded, extruded, sequestered and fragmented disc pathologies in etiology and neurological sequelae in relationship to the spinal cord and spinal nerve roots. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Robert Peyster MD, Neuroradiologist, Long Island, NY, 2010 MRI Spinal Anatomy and Protocols, Normal anatomy of axial and sagittal views utilizing T1, T2, 3D gradient and STIR sequences of imaging. Standardized and desired protocols in views and sequencing of MRI examination to create an accurate diagnosis in MRI. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Robert Peyster MD, Neuroradiologist, Long Island, NY, 2010
MRI History and Physics, Magnetic fields, T1 and T2 relaxations, nuclear spins, phase encoding, spin echo, T1 and T2 contrast, magnetic properties of metals and the historical perspective of the creation of NMR and MRI. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education, Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 Got Documentation, Understanding the clinical documentation of problem oriented medical record (POMR), understanding the P.A.R.T. system of the documentation of daily patient visits, understanding and determining the need for medical necessity, understanding the proper use of E/M and treatment coding, understanding the proper utilization of outcome measures for the justification of treatment. Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, New York Chiropractic College, Levittown, NY, 2010 California X-ray Technology Course, Constructing appropriate radiology reports, review of general imaging techniques, understanding the fundamental role of trauma in musculoskeletal disease and the various diagnostic imaging techniques used to evaluate it, nomenclature of different types of disc herniations and their clinical presentation, learning to identify, describe, and classify fractures by both direct & indirect radiographic signs. ChiroCredit.com, CA, 2010 Documenting Clinically Correlated Bodily Injury to Causality, Understanding the necessity for accurate documentation, diagnosis and clinical correlation to the injury when reporting injuries in the medical-legal community. Documenting the kinesiopathology, myopathology, neuropathology, pathophysiology in both a functional and structural paradigm. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Education Department, Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 Documentation and Reporting for the Trauma Victim, Understanding the necessity for accurate documentation and diagnosis utilizing the ICD-9 and the CPT to accurately describe the injury through diagnosis. Understanding and utilizing state regulations on reimbursement issues pertaining to healthcare. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Education Department, Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 Neurodiagnostic Testing Protocols, Physiology and Indications for the Trauma Patient, Electromyography (EMG), Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV), Somato Sensory Evoked Potential (SSEP), Visual Evoked Potential (VEP), Brain Stem Auditory Evoked Potential (BAER) and Visual-Electronystagmosgraphy (V-ENG) interpretation, protcols and clinical indications for the trauma patient. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Education Department, Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 MRI, Bone Scan and X-Ray Protocols, Physiology and Indications for the Trauma Patient, MRI interpretation, physiology, history and clinical indications, bone scan interpretation, physiology and clinical indications, x-ray clinical indications for the trauma patient. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Education Department Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 Crash Dynamics and Its Relationship to Causality, An extensive understanding of the physics involved in the transference of energy from the bullet car to the target car. This includes G's of force, Newtons, gravity, energy, skid marks, crumple zones, spring factors, event data recorder and the graphing of the movement of the vehicle before, during and after the crash. Determining the clinical correlation of forces and bodily injury. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York
Chiropractic Council, New York State Education Department Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 Diagnostics, Risk Factors, Clinical Presentation and Triaging the Trauma Patient, An extensive understanding of the injured with clinically coordinating the history, physical findings and when to integrate neurodiagnostics. An understanding on how to utilize emergency room records in creating an accurate diagnosis and the significance of risk factors in spinal injury. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Education Department Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 Neurodiagnostics, Imaging Protocols and Pathology of the Trauma Patient, An in-depth understanding of the protocols in triaging and reporting the clinical findings of the trauma patient. Maintaining ethical relationships with the medical-legal community. CMCS Post Doctoral Division, New York Chiropractic Council, New York State Department of Education Board for Chiropractic, Long Island, NY, 2010 Clinical Anatomy Review, Cadaver dissection with clinical application and visualization of the most common conditions and syndromes appearing in the spine as well as upper and lower extremities. Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA, 2009 The Colossal PI Seminar, Topics include conducting a proper PI examination, diagnosing AOMSI (Alteration of Motion Segment Integrity), understanding ligament laxity, diagnosing MTBI (Mild Traumatic Brain Injury) using the ACE (Acute Concussion Evaluation), using the AMA Guides to Evaluation of Permanent Impairments for brain, cervical, lumbar, and peripheral nerve impairments, insurance reporting procedures and narrative report writing, testifying in depositions, arbitrations, and court MIST cases, and management of brain injuries, including techniques for treatment. Human Biomechanics of Trauma Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2008 Thoracic Spine and Rib Cage Adjusting, Evaluation and treatment of the thoracic spine and rib cage in relation to the upper extremity complex. Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA, 2007 Radiology of Trauma Part 1 & 2, Diagnostic imaging and interpretation, clinical competency and management of spinal trauma. Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA, 2007 A New Chiropractic Model in Treatment, Current information about the nature of joint dysfunction and disturbances in sensory input, muscle patterns and autonomic output. Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA, 2006 X-Ray Interpretation-Read the Signs, Diagnostic imaging of spinal pain and interpretation of x- ray findings. Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA, 2006 Chiropractic Management of Upper Extremity Entrapment Syndromes, Diagnosis, adjusting and management of upper extremity entrapment syndromes. Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA, 2005 X-Ray New Frontiers in Whiplash, Radiographic evaluation of cervical spine in the whiplash trauma patient and documenting whiplash post-traumatic articular stability. Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA, 2005
California Basic Workers Compensation-ACOEM, Current evaluation and treatment of occupational injuries within the scope of new ACOEM laws. International Chiropractic Association, Millbrae, CA, 2004 Chronic Head and Neck Pain, Diagnosis, treatment and case management of chronic head and neck pain. Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA, 2003 Gonstead Technique, Gonstead spinal analysis, x-ray analysis, specific adjusting and spinal and extremity rehabilitation. Life Chiropractic College West, Vacaville, CA, 2002 Chiropractic Research, The latest scientific evidence on chiropractic effectiveness, restoration of function, pain relief, and tissue injury repair. Life Chiropractic College West, Santa Rosa, CA, 2001 Certification in Workers Compensation, Life Chiropractic College West, San Lorenzo, CA, 2000 Certification in Industrial Disability Evaluation, Life Chiropractic College West, San Lorenzo, CA, 1999 Chiropractic Clinical Research, Current models of joint dysfunction, nerve interference, disturbed autonomic function and back pain. Life Chiropractic College West, San Lorenzo, CA, 1999 SELECTED HONORS and AWARDS Best Chiropractor, Reporter Readers, 2011 Best Chiropractor, Reporter Readers, 2010 Best Chiropractor 1 st Runner-Up, Reporter Readers, 2009 Best Chiropractor 1 st Runner-Up, Reporter Readers, 2008 Best Chiropractor 1 st Runner-Up, Reporter Readers, 2007 Best Chiropractor 1 st Runner-Up, Reporter Readers, 2006 SELECTED MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Medical Legal Professionals, Member, 2010-present Academy of Chiropractic, Member, 2009-present Solano Regional Medical Group, Participating Community Physician, 2005-present California Chiropractic Association, Member, 2003-present
SELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICE NorthBay Hospital Hospice, Donator through Gold s Gym of Vacaville, Vacaville, CA, 2003- present Will C. Wood Crab Feed-Band and Sylvan Choir, Donator through Gold s Gym of Vacaville, Vacaville, CA, 2003-present Midnight Sun Foundation, Donator through Gold s Gym of Vacaville, Vacaville, CA, 2007-2009 Boys and Girls Club of Vacaville, Donator through Gold s Gym of Vacaville, Vacaville, CA, 2006-2009 National Diabetes Tour de Cure Research Foundation, Donator through Gold s Gym of Vacaville, Vacaville, CA, 2006-2008 Vacaville Grand Prix, Donator through Gold s Gym of Vacaville, Vacaville, CA, 2007