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Eric Hurwitz, DC, MS, PhD

Fall 1980 - Fall 2120

Visiting Professor

SCU Health - AVP

ehurwitz@hawaii.edu

Current Position

  • Position: Associated Faculty

Biography

Dr. Hurwitz is a Professor and Graduate Chair at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, in Honolulu, Hawai`i. His research portfolio includes comparative effectiveness, health services, patient-centered outcomes, and epidemiologic studies using a variety of experimental and observational research designs and large clinical and population-based databases to study conventional and complementary and alternative interventions, including chiropractic care and spinal manipulation for managing back and neck pain. Dr. Hurwitz has chaired and

currently serve on data and safety monitoring boards for NIH-funded clinical trials, teach and mentor students in epidemiologic methods and clinical epidemiology, and enjoy ongoing collaborations with Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) and RAND.

Dr. Hurwitz served on the Scientific Secretariat of The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010

Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders and currently serves on the secretariat of the Global Spine Care Initiative and is the co-director of the research program for World Spine Care. His expertise and research interests include the epidemiology and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders and chronic diseases; the interrelationships of psychosocial, behavioral, and immune factors in the etiology and prognosis of physical and psychological pain; the safety and effectiveness of therapeutic and preventive interventions; and methods in observational studies, health services research, and clinical epidemiology.

Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

Journal Article

Completed/Published

Hurwitz, E. Epidemiology: Spinal Manipulation Utilization. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology 2012, 22, 648–654.
Ly, C.; Ogana, H.; Kim, H. N.; Hurwitz, S.; Deeds, E. J.; Kim, Y.-M.; Rowat, A. C. Altered Physical Phenotypes of Leukemia Cells That Survive Chemotherapy Treatment. 2023, 15.
Yang, H.; Hurwitz, E. L.; Li, J.; de Luca, K.; Tavares, P.; Green, B.; Haldeman, S. Bidirectional Comorbid Associations between Back Pain and Major Depression in US Adults. 2023, 20.
Hurwitz, E.; Pohlman, K.; O’Beirne, M.; Thiel, H.; Cassidy, J.; Mior, S.; Westaway, M.; Ishaque, S.; Vohra, S. Development and Validation of Providers’ and Patients' Measurement Instruments to Evaluate Adverse Events after Spinal Manipulation Therapy. European Journal of Integrative Medicine 2014.
Hurwitz, E.; Vassilaki, M. Perspectives on Pain in the Low Back and Neck: Global Burden, Epidemiology, and Management. Hawaii Journal of Medicine & Public Health 2014, 122–126.
Hurwitz, E. Cancer Risk after Use of Recombinant Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 for Spinal Arthrodesis. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Am 2013, 1537–1545.
Hurwitz, E.; Haldeman, S.; Kopansky-Giles, D.; Hoy, D.; Erwin, M.; Kawchuk, G.; Strömqvist, B.; Walsh, N. Bone and Joint Decade Report: Moving Together beyond the Decade – Advancements in the Management of Spine Disorders. Best Practice and Research Clinical Rheumatology 2012, 26(2), 263–280.

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I chose SCU when looking for a PA program because of their Integrative Medicine approach. I am from Michigan, and not many programs focus on this Integrative, Holistic approach when it comes to patient care in the Midwest, and I felt that was very important for me to learn as a future provider. My transition to semi-virtual learning has been very smooth and quite enjoyable. My favorite part about attending SCU is how tight-knit and diverse the community is. Coming from a large undergrad university and moving so far, it was very important for me to have a PA program that made me feel valued and invested in my success. At SCU, they do a great job of making you feel that.

 

Brianna Hadley

MSPA Class of 2022

One of the great things about SCU is we do have a campus layout, so all your classes aren't in a single room. We have our cadaver lab. We have different specialty rooms for physical assessment classes vs. acupuncture classes. All our acupuncture-specific classes have all the herbs in the room. You can pull out the herbs and look at them, whether in class or in between classes to get that extra studying in.

My favorite part of SCU is the collaboration from our beginning terms. We were working alongside chiropractor students, PA students, and ayurvedic students. It's a unique community where we get to learn about these different fields and sit in classrooms with them and work with them in the clinic. It allows you to get an understanding of all the different fields and how they can work together, and what is unique about your field. I think that is a wonderful aspect that I didn't think was going to be as prominent as it is here; even now, in my upper term classes and I am not in class with chiropractic students, I can still reach out to them about a certain aspect I may not understand or if I am working on a case. I want another perspective I know I have them to reach out to, so that has been a great networking community to have resources for.

Dr. Jamie Kuljis

Graduate, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

"There are a lot of things that I love about the program at SCU. The first one is that the faculty come from a long line of Ayurvedic knowledge deeply rooted in ancient classical text. They studied Ayurveda, but they also lived it. When you learn from people who embody this wisdom, it's much easier to grasp this knowledge. The second thing I love is the camaraderie within the cohort. The combination of the training, supportive faculty, and the support of my peers and classmates has given me the confidence I need to start my own practice."

Portia Harris

Student, Ayurveda Program

Some of my favorite courses at SCU have to be the chiropractic procedure classes; those are the classes you get to hone in on your chiro skills, your palpation skills and ultimately work on the adjustments that make you a chiropractor. Those are the classes I feel enhance my knowledge the most and are some of the reasons I chose to become a chiropractor here are SCU.

On top of chiropractic procedures classes, my favorite is the cadaver lab experience. The cadaver classes opened up my perception of what the human body is made up of. It allowed me to get an in-person perspective of how the body works and looks on the inside. I am genuinely thankful for those experiences because they opened and broadened my horizons to the human body and anatomy in general.

Jordan Vega

Student, Doctor of Chiropractic

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