Sherry McAllister, DC, M.S. (Ed) CCSP,  serves as the President for the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, the national not-for-profit organization showcasing the benefits of chiropractic care across multiple platforms with over 32,000 members. Dr. McAllister earned her Master’s in Science from the University of California East Bay and is a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic West, where she served as an Associate Professor. Appointed to Forbes Non-Profit Leadership Council. Dr. McAllister served as a Qualified Medical Examiner, Expert Chiropractic Witness for the State of California, and has been in private practice in San Jose since 1996.

She has been Featured in several publications including: Forbes, Boss Magazine, Becker's Spine Review, Momtastic, LiveStrong, Martha Steward Living, Managed Healthcare Executive, and News Break. She has been awarded; Top Women in Healthcare: PR News Access Intelligence, Person of the Year Dynamic Chiropractic, Chiropractor of the Year by Women DC organization.

The Foundation has been honored with: PR World Awards Gold Winner in Healthcare Achievement, Global AVA Award Adjusted Reality Podcast (Host), Viddy Award for outstanding Videography in a commercial, prestigious Telly Award for the Tokyo Olympic Advertisement and the Global Gold Marcom award for the first ever ChiroThon Campaign.

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2-HR CE

Dr. Cindy M. Howard is a Board Certified Chiropractic Internist and Nutritionist in private practice in Chicago, Illinois, and holds a license in the state of Florida. She speaks Nationally, presenting on topics including Pre and Post Concussion Nutrition, Neuro-adrenal dysfunction and Infection in sport, Male and Female pelvic disorders, Pediatrics, Immunology, GI disorders, Endocrinology, Nutritional Blood analysis interpretation and Genetics. She is also the owner of DC Consulting and Advance Education assisting private practices. She loves to help doctors improve their communication with patients, increase compliance, and build a better functional medicine or nutritional practice.

For the last 8 years, she has served as the Illinois delegate for the American Chiropractic Society and as the alternate for 6 years prior to that. Serving the ACA she has served on the membership, professional development, guidelines, bylaws, and grievance committees. She was the recipient of the Flynn/Lynch award in 2015 for outstanding service. She is also a founding member of the ACA Women’s health council.

She is a past president of the ACA Council on Diagnosis and Internal Disorders and currently serves as the Vice President of the College of Pharmacology and Toxicology. She also serves on the medical advisory board for the Functional Medicine University, serves as a board member for Before the Hit and is an associate editor of The Original Internist. Locally, Dr. Howard serves as a board member for the Frankfort Falcons Youth football organization, the concussion oversight team for the local school district and is the team chiropractor for Dreamz Elite competitive cheer and the local wrestling club.

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2-HR CE

Charles Sefcik, DC, DACNB, CCN is a board certified chiropractic neurologist, certified clinical nutritionist, founder and clinical director of the Life Enhancement Clinic in Bismarck, ND. He teaches the 48 Hour Nutrition Certificate Program and is a faculty member of the Continuing Education Department at Northwestern Health Sciences University.



He uses a variety of conventional and functional diagnostic testing for improved clinical outcomes. Areas of special interest include head and neck pain, low back pain, gastrointestinal complaints and lifestyle medicine.

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4-HR CE

In Spring Valley, New York, at the age of 15, Eric Plasker sustained a football injury that landed him in the emergency room. The hospital orthopedist, after reviewing the test results, told Eric to “take these pills and don’t play for 30 days.” Eric looked at his mother and said, “I want to play. I’ll try anything.” The next morning, he went to a chiropractor for an adjustment, and that afternoon he played without any pain. That was the start of what has turned out to be a life-long journey into human potential, the body’s ability to heal itself and perform at very high levels for a lifetime.

Fascinated by the distinction between crisis-based care and lifestyle/performance care, Eric attended the University of Delaware for his undergraduate work and then went on to Life University College of Chiropractic in Marietta, Georgia where he graduated in 1985. In 1986, Dr. Plasker began his own family and performance-based practice on Atlanta’s famous Peachtree Road. “I was honored to be able to take care of athletes at every level from world champions to weekend warriors. And there were so many parents who wanted to learn how to raise healthy, drug-free children. They very passionately wanted a more holistic lifestyle, and we became that holistic healthcare leader for our community.”

To date, Dr. Plasker has helped over 10,000 patients from around the world to create health and wellness in their lives. Through his company, The Family Practice, he has trained over 10,000 chiropractors how to be more effective communicators and educators for their community practice.

All of his success is based on his understanding and experience with the innate abilities of the human body and his proactive mindset when it comes to health and longevity. While not many of us may expect to live to be 100, the reality is that many of us today are living longer than we ever thought we would. The 100 Year Lifestyle shows us that birthright time isn’t borrowed time, and we are never too young or too old to thrive.

Today Dr. Plasker, named Chiropractor of the Year by Life University, is an in-demand speaker to companies and groups around the world that want to create The 100 Year Lifestyle culture for themselves, their families, and their companies. He is an exceptional motivator who is passionate about The 100 Year Lifestyle as a new model for living in a world of extended lifetimes.

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4-HR CE

Session Title: Chiropractic Family & Generational Care: The 100 Year Lifestyle

Course Description   (4-hours)

At 100 Year Lifestyle, our commitment to relevant continuing education for chiropractors has always been a top priority. Our new program, Healthy Longevity and Chiropractic: From Birth to 100 Years and Beyond is at the top of the list and is loaded with new content and information to help chiropractors provide better care and education for patients.

The National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine has declared healthy longevity as one of their top priorities between now and 2030. AARP has jumped on board along with Forbes, Stanford, Edward Jones Financial and many others. Combined, they will be investing billions of dollars in healthy longevity programs and education targeting communities, and every demographic.

Who better to lead this movement locally than chiropractors, and we have been leading this movement with solid principles for more than two decades.

Dan Murphy graduated magna cum laude from Western States Chiropractic College in 1978, and has more than 40 years of practice experience. He received his Diplomate in Chiropractic Orthopedics in 1986. Since 1982, Dan Murphy has served as part-time undergraduate faculty at Life Chiropractic College West, where he is currently teaching classes to seniors in the Management of Spinal Disorders and Spinal Pathology/Neurology. His academic rank at the college is that of Professor.

Dan Murphy is on the post-graduate faculty of several chiropractic colleges. His post-graduate continuing education classes include “Whiplash and Spinal Trauma”, “Neuroimmunology”, “Pediatrics”, “Phospholipid Neurobiology”, “The Neurophysiology of Therapeutic Lasers”, and “Nutrition”. Dan Murphy has been the coordinator of a year-long certification program (through the International Chiropractic Association) in “Chiropractic Spinal Trauma”, a program that has graduated about 2,000 chiropractors. He has taught more than 1,750 post-graduate continuing education seminars, including classes in the United States, Canada, Australia, France, England, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, Spain, Panama, South Korea, and Peru.



Dan Murphy is a contributing author to the books Motor Vehicle Collision Injuries, published by Aspen, 1996; Pediatric Chiropractic, published by Williams & Wilkins, 1998 and 2011; and Motor Vehicle Collision Injuries, 2nd edition, Jones and Bartlett, 2005. Dan Murphy wrote approximately 90 quarterly columns in the American Journal of Clinical Chiropractic.

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8-HR CE

Mike Powell, DC, DACNB,  teaches doctors how to do what they do, even better! Combining brain science and Chiropractic; patients get better faster. This includes many of the most complex, challenging cases.

He has taught clinical neurology for the Carrick Institute, served on both state association and professional regulatory boards. Dr. Powell has taught at over 400 professional events and has a goal of teaching in-person in all 50 states (over 30 so far). Presentations are always interactive, include hand’s on learning and include video case studies

from his clinic. He practices what he preaches; providing brain-based Chiropractic care for those with chronic pain, concussion, disabling dizziness or movement disorders, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, ADHD and other disorders. Dr. Powell also provides brain-based care for those interested in wellness. He loves to help other providers serve at a higher level.

Dr. Powell is proud to be a second generation Doctor of Chiropractic, practicing with his wife, Kourtne, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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4-HR CE

Dr. Foss is the Director of the Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician Program for Northeast Chiropractic College and Director of Education for the International Certification of Sports Chiropractic.

She was named the 2020 American Chiropractic Association Sports Council Chiropractor of the Year and was the 2023 International Federation of Sports Chiropractic Educator of the Year. Dr. Foss is currently serving as the Director of Education at Foot Levelers and certified in acupuncture.

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4-HR CE

Dr. Sheybani has served as the Medicare and Medicaid Advisor for ICS since November 2015. A 1993 graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic with a master’s degree in Business Administration from St. Ambrose University, Dr. Sheybani is the Executive Director of Clinical Operations at LIFE University.

Dr. Sheybani has years of service in a variety of community service and leadership roles. He is a fellow with the Academy of Chiropractic Orthopedists and served the academy as an examiner. Dr. Sheybani is also a fellow with the International College of Chiropractors. He is certified in healthcare compliance from the Health Care Compliance Association and he is currently serving the profession as a representative on Medicare Jurisdiction 5 Wisconsin Physician Services Government Health Administrators Contractor Advisory Committee. In this role, he serves as the co-chair for the committee for the State of Iowa. Additionally, Dr. Sheybani is a committee member on the Professional Affairs Healthcare Advisory Committee for the American Public Health Association on American Specialty Health.

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1-HR CE

For more than 15 years, Carrie Kuennen has worked with ICS in multiple capacities. Since 2008, Ms. Kuennen has served as the ICS Insurance Consultant. With more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare revenue cycle, she has a wide range of experience in healthcare billing and best practices. Her experience ranges from chiropractic office manager, provider relations representative for a large Midwest regional health plan, Director of Business Office for a local physician/hospital group, and now as Director of Revenue Cycle Management for Mom's Meals, a nationwide home-delivered meal provider that serves Medicare and Medicaid patients. Ms. Kuennen also provides customized, individual training to chiropractic offices and staff. She is a long-time member of the Hawkeye Chapter of the American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management and is currently serving on the board as the Chapter President. Ms. Kuennen is originally from Oelwein, Iowa and graduated from Hawkeye Community College. She has earned multiple continuing education certificates, including certification as a Certified Revenue Cycle Executive, as well as multiple professional awards for her work in Revenue Cycle. Ms. Kuennen is married, has two boys, and lives in Ames, Iowa.

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1-HR CE