Shari Wynd, DC, PhD

Dr. Wynd has degrees in kinesiology, biomedical engineering, and chiropractic. Her area of expertise is in the mechanisms of vertebral artery injury associated with cervical spine manipulation and cervical spine biomechanics. In her PhD dissertation, she used an animal model to examine the effect of cervical manipulation on a pre-existing vertebral artery lesion. She also developed a survey tool to monitor manipulation-related adverse events.

She continues to collaborate with her supervisor, Dr. Greg Kawchuk at the University of Alberta, Canada in the area of manipulation safety. She is currently an assistant professor at the Southern California University of Health Sciences where she teaches Research Methodology to chiropractic students. She is also developing several collaborative projects in extremity and spinal biomechanics at the California State University, Fullerton.