Faculty
Julie Kotiw, DC, DIBCN
Fall 1980 - Fall 2120
Assistant Professor II
Los Angeles College of Chiropractic - Chiropractic Education
JKotiw@scuhs.edu
Current Position
Biography
Julie Kotiw, DC, DIBCN, BS, CMT, CYT is a Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist. She received her DC from Palmer College of Chiropractic-Fl Campus in 2009, a Certified Massage Therapist since 2003, Certified Yoga Instructor since 2014 and Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist since 2020. She has taught at the Doctorate level since 2015. She was the Bioscience Department Chair at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in Chicago form 2015-2019. Dr. Kotiw then taught at her alma mater replacing her mentor Dr. Dishman to teach Neuroanatomy. She then joined the faculty of SCUHS in 2020 and is currently teaching Neuroscience lecture and lab and Clinical Neurology. Dr. Kotiw maintains a private practice in Pasadena, Ca where she utilizes her ElectroEncephalogram (EEG) to create brain based Chiropractic Neurological rehabilitation protocols.
Degrees
Diplomate in Chiropractic Neurology, Chiropractic Neurology , Diplomate of the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology
D.C., Doctorate of Chiropractic, Palmer College of Chiropractic , Port Orange, Florida, United StatesDissertation:
Professional Licensures (Healthcare)
DC, California, United States, 36082, Active, 2021, September 2024, 1922333749
Certifications (Healthcare)
International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology, Diplomates of the International Board of Chiropractic Neurology (D.I.B.C.N), Chiropractic Neurology, 52982824, 2020-02-10, 2090-01-01, Yes
Post-Graduate Training
Type: Post-Doctorate, Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Post-Doctorate, Chiropractic Neurology, Port Orange , Florida, United States, January 2018, February 2020
Work Experience
2019 - 2020
Faculty-Neuroscience, Palmer College of Chiropractic-Florida, Port Orange, Florida, United States
2015 - 2019
Bioscience Department Chair & Asisstant Professor, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions
Book
Completed/Published
Professional Membership
Spring 2020 - Ongoing
International Academy of Chiropractic Neurologists, February 2020, The mission of the IACN is:
1. To provide an outlet for expression and communication of professional opinions for the benefit and enhancement of the neurological sciences as they relate to the chiropractic profession, to best serve humankind.
2. To promote and foster the understanding and use of principles and techniques in the field of chiropractic neurology and support those principles, policies and practices that seek the attainment of the highest order of excellence in neurologic skills directed at patient care by doctors of chiropractic.
3. To promote the highest standards of moral and ethical conduct amongst chiropractic neurologists and electrodiagnosticians.
4. The pursuit of excellence in chiropractic education especially as it concerns the promotion of post-graduate courses of study in chiropractic neurology and electrodiagnosis.
5. To disseminate scientific and scholarly information and educational materials relevant to chiropractic neurology through the establishment and maintenance an IACN journal and WebSite.
6. To encourage the development of standard terminology in chiropractic neurology.
7. Support for the quest of scientific knowledge by support for research in neuroscience and a high plane of competence and of clinical value to the literature of neurology.
8. To outline the scope of the chiropractic/neurological practice and to encourage the recognition of this scope of practice amongst the profession and in chiropractic colleges.
9. Achieve and preserve the purposes of the IACN.
10. To encourage interest amongst graduates in chiropractic to enter this field of specialty.
11. To protect in every proper and reasonable way the professional welfare and interest of the members of the IACN.
12. To work and cooperate with chiropractic colleges and universities, chiropractic licensing and regulating boards and other federal, state and private agencies, or appropriate committees, councils and departments as necessary.
13. To enhance the quality of chiropractic neurological care through the voluntary certification process, by establishing and supporting certification boards in chiropractic neurology & electrodiagnosis to be known as the International Board of Chiropractic Neurology (IBCN) and International Board of Electrodiagnosis (IBE) respectively. The examining boards shall serve to develop and conduct testing programs in the field of chiropractic neurology and electrodiagnosis, identify those students of chiropractic neurology who are qualified specialists in chiropractic neurology, and issue appropriate certifications and designations to those who successfully completed such programs.
https://www.iacn.org/Mission
Interests
Functional EEG , Functional EEG, I teach Yoga on a volunteer basis at my local church. , I have requested to have a Neurology Consultation Clinic Shift at our Clinic in order to put into practice the clinical neurology I teach them in the classroom.
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Portia Harris
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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.[su_accordion][su_spoiler title="Read More..." open="No"]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.[/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
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