Patricia Tavares
Dr. Patricia Tavares graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) Toronto, Canada in 1995, and attained an orthopedic fellowship designation in 2004.
She started and ran a private practice for 14 years in Toronto’s west end. She was the first chiropractic volunteer to work with Health Mission Outreach, a charitable organization that provides multidisciplinary one-day free clinics to communities in need in the greater Toronto area and abroad.
In 2010 she became a primary clinician at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) where she supervises interns during their clinical rotation in primarily a chronic pain-based urban clinic. She participates in the CMCC Outreach Abroad Outreach to the Dominican Republic where she supervises interns treating patients in need of spinal care.
She is actively involved in research at CMCC and in the Dominican Republic. Her research interests are in pregnancy and postpartum back pain and pelvic girdle pain, and the association of venous ulcers and ankle range of motion reduction in a population in the Dominican Republic. She has contributed to three of the GSCI papers in the European Spine Journal in 2018.
She also serves as a member of the board of the Canadian Chiropractic Orthopedists and served as a Council Member of the regulatory body for chiropractic in Ontario for 6 years.
Dr. Tavares is the Clinical Coordinator of the WSC Dominican Republic Project and is a member of the WSC research committee.
