The American Chiropractic Association's 2026 Humanitarian of the Year Valerie Johnson, DC, DABCI, DACBN, retired in 2025 after a trailblazing 20-year career in the Veterans Administration (VA) health care system. Her colleagues have praised the exceptional, empathetic, and patient-centered care...
ACA VA Chiropractic Residencies
Celebrating 20 years of VA Chiropractic
And Stephanie Halloran, DC, MS This October marks the 20-year anniversary of doctors of chiropractic within the Veterans (VA) Health Administration. What started as humble beginnings, with only 25 chiropractors, each at their own individual VA facility, has now grown...
An Alternative Path to Debt-Free: How a Chiropractic Residency Paves the Way to Student Loan Forgiveness
The alarm shrieked, tearing into slumber’s sweet serenity before the crimson sun even had a chance to dress itself in its golden robes. Adam jolted awake, his sight still in the custody of the night’s plaster. He awoke as if...
Chiropractic Residencies Added to National Match Website
This year you’ll be seeing chiropractic listed on the National Match website alongside medicine, optometry, and other healthcare professions (see graphic below). This advancement is the result of a partnership between the VA Chiropractic Program and the Association of Chiropractic...
Chiropractor Recognized as Clinician of the Year at Fargo VA Health System
American Chiropractic Association (ACA) member Kevin Bjorlie, DC, of Fargo, N.D., recently received the Fargo VA Health Care System’s 2022 Clinician of the Year Award. After many years of working to integrate chiropractic care into the VA system, Dr. Bjorlie...
VA Chiropractic Residency: Applications, Interviews, and Matching
Last year on March 16, Match Day, I got accepted into the Veteran’s Affairs (VA) of Western New York Healthcare System chiropractic residency program. Selection of VA chiropractic residents is done through a standardized process, but like me, you may still wonder...
VA Chiropractic Resident: My Month with Neurosurgery
Morgan Price, DC When I woke up the morning of March 16, 2020, to an email matching me with my residency program, I could not even begin to understand how different of an experience it would be from anything I...
VA Chiropractic Residency Adapts to Global COVID-19 Pandemic
By Michael R. Cole II, DC, MS The VA Chiropractic Residency is a competitive clinical residency program with the purpose of training post-graduate chiropractors in a hospital-based integrative setting. The resident is a post-doctoral chiropractor, who is supervised by experienced...
Response to Pain in a Global Pandemic
How the Miami VA Medical Center Chiropractic Department implemented policies to provide essential services to veterans in need. By Casey Rogers, DC President John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to...
The Empowerment of a VA Residency
By Rebekah Wilks, DC As doctors of chiropractic, we graduate “practice-ready,” meaning that based on our rigorous training we are qualified to immediately enter the workforce. While this designation accurately reflects our training, is this the most beneficial approach for...
