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PROVOST
Faculty Promotions
Each year a number of faculty at NYCC are reviewed to
assess their contributions to chiropractic education and the
profession in areas of teaching, research/scholarship, and service
for purposes of qualifying for advancement in rank ac-
cording to criteria noted in the Faculty Handbook. The review
process consists of a series of evaluations and recommendations
to the Provost from the Committee on Faculty Appoint-
ments and Promotions (a group of faculty peers), and from
various academic administrators. At this time, it is a pleasure
to announce the following faculty promotions, which were ef-
fective September 1, 2001.
Associate Professor to Professor
by G. Lansing Blackshaw, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President/Provost
Christopher J. Good (Technique & Principles). A faculty member
at NYCC since 1994 and a Senior Lecturer at Anglo-European College
of Chiropractic from 1988-94, Dr. Good has served as lead
instructor in Upper Extremity Technique, Contemporary Chiropractic
Philosophy, Patient Communications, Extremity Palpation and Biomechanics,
Philosophy and Ethics, Concepts in Chiropractic Technique,
and Lumbopelvic Technique. He also has authored the chapters
“Peripheral Joint Mechanics” and “Passive Osteokinematic
Motion Palpation” in Chiropractic Technique of the Peripheral Joints, edited
by R.T. Broome, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, England (1 st
edition, 2000). Dr. Good currently chairs NYCC’s Faculty Evaluation
Task Force and is a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician. He
received his D.C. degree summa cum laude from Palmer College of
Chiropractic in 1982, a B.A. from Thomas Edison State College in
New Jersey in 1983, and an M.A. (Ed.) (Distinction) Science and
Technology from Southampton University in England in 1994.
Frank J. Nicchi (President). A faculty member at NYCC in the
Clinical Sciences from 1980-89, Dr. Nicchi taught Clinical Orthopedics,
Clinical Neurology, Differential Diagnosis, and Chiropractic
Technique. He was a clinician at the College’s Levittown Chiropractic
Health Center from 1989-95, Dean of Postgraduate and Continuing
Education from 1995-2000, and assumed the presidency of
NYCC in September 2000. Dr. Nicchi has lectured extensively for
the College’s Postgraduate Division. He was a member of the New
York State Chiropractic Association Board of Directors from 1984-
88, and recipient of NYCC’s Chiropractor of the Year Award in
Dr. G. Lansing Blackshaw
Executive Vice President/Provost
1997. After earning a B.A. degree from St. John’s University in 1973,
Dr. Nicchi received his D.C. degree from NYCC in 1978.
John A.M. Taylor (Diagnosis & Practice). A faculty member at
NYCC since 2000, Dr. Taylor was an Associate Professor at Western
States Chiropractic College from 1994-2000. He is a Diplomate of
the American Chiropractic Board of Radiology and a Fellow of the
Chiropractic College of Radiology in Canada. He co-authored the
1,064-page textbook Skeletal Imaging: Atlas of the Spine and Extremities
(W.B. Saunders Co., 2000); and has over 200 refereed journal publications,
textbook chapters, and guest lecture/continuing and postgraduate
education presentations – mostly in the areas of imaging and
radiology. Dr. Taylor received his D.C. degree from Canadian Memorial
Chiropractic College in 1979, and was a postdoctoral research
fellow in musculoskeletal radiology in the Department of Radiology
at the University of California-San Diego Medical Center in 1992-
93.
Assistant Professor to Associate Professor
M. Elizabeth Bedford (Anatomy). A faculty member at NYCC
since 1995, Dr. Bedford held various teaching appointments in
anatomy, anthropology and physiology at Kent State University and
the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine from 1985-
95. A Lecturer in Human Gross Anatomy and Neuroscience courses
at NYCC, her research interests are in musculoskeletal biology, function
and evaluation; biomechanics; degenerative joint disease; neuromuscular
function; evolution of the nervous system; comparative
primate anatomy; and skeletal aging. Dr. Bedford is a co-author of
the textbook Chiropractic Skeletal Anatomy, to be published by F.A. Davis
in Spring 2002. A former Chair of the NYCC Faculty Handbook
Committee, she was recently elected Chair of the College’s Institutional
(Research) Review Board. A Phi Beta Kappa honors graduate
in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in
1979, Dr. Bedford continued her education at Kent State University,
where she earned a Master of Science degree in Anthropology in
1987 and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences (Biological Anthropology)
in 1994.
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