Dr. Hurwitz is a Professor and Graduate Chair at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, in Honolulu, Hawai`i. His research portfolio includes comparative effectiveness, health services, patient-centered outcomes, and epidemiologic studies using a variety of experimental and observational research designs and large clinical and population-based databases to study conventional and complementary and alternative interventions, including chiropractic care and spinal manipulation for managing back and neck pain. Dr. Hurwitz has chaired and

currently serve on data and safety monitoring boards for NIH-funded clinical trials, teach and mentor students in epidemiologic methods and clinical epidemiology, and enjoy ongoing collaborations with Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) and RAND.

Dr. Hurwitz served on the Scientific Secretariat of The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010

Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders and currently serves on the secretariat of the Global Spine Care Initiative and is the co-director of the research program for World Spine Care. His expertise and research interests include the epidemiology and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders and chronic diseases; the interrelationships of psychosocial, behavioral, and immune factors in the etiology and prognosis of physical and psychological pain; the safety and effectiveness of therapeutic and preventive interventions; and methods in observational studies, health services research, and clinical epidemiology.