Excellence in CIRM Research Award 2023
Congratulations to William Reed, DC, PhD, the inaugural recipient of the Excellence in CIRM Research Award. This award recognizes an outstanding researcher who has demonstrated scientific excellence regarding the use and integration of complementary, holistic and integrative health approaches related to important rehabilitation medicine areas including healthcare, education and policy.
ABOUT WILLIAM REED
My background is as a manual therapy clinician who after 15 years left a successful private practice to pursue a research career investigating physiological mechanisms underlying manual therapy and physical rehabilitation approaches aimed at alleviating pain and the improving human health. I received a NIH Career Development Award to investigate the effects of spinal joint dysfunction on lumbar muscle spindle primary afferent discharge during spinal manipulation, followed by an NIH R21 award continuing this line of research. In 2022, my colleagues and I received a NIH U24 award (U24AT011969-01) to develop a new and sustainable research network (ForceNET; https://sites.duke.edu/forcenet/) aimed at developing interdisciplinary collaborations to address current mechanistic knowledge gaps and successfully overcome long-standing barriers in the field of manual therapy. ForceNet aims to grow and diversify the manual therapy workforce, develop a pipeline of new manual therapy interdisciplinary investigators, and encourage new collaborations between larger research-intensive public universities and smaller Integrative Medicine institutions. The development of this interdisciplinary mechanistic-research network will be important in optimizing manual therapy approaches in the treatment of acute and chronic health conditions.
