• Lawrence DJ

• Chiropractic Research
• Open Access Document
• Publishing

Introduction and Preamble There are times when I think the story of my life could be entitled “Taking the path of least resistance.” Certainly, that was the case when, in 1981, the president of National College of Chiropractic, Dr. Joseph Janse, asked for a volunteer to help out an administrator, Dr. Roy Hildebrandt, who was ill but who also was the editor for a somewhat new chiropractic journal called the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. Dr. Hildebrandt had recently achieved the impossible: he had had the journal included in Index Medicus, the then weekly publication of new scientific papers and information and which to that time had never included a chiropractic journal. Dr. Janse had first asked a colleague of mine to take this role on, but he deferred, preferring to work in the postgraduate arena. I therefore volunteered.

Fast-forward almost 44 years. I am now an older administrator and faculty member, slowly moving toward retirement, and one who spent his entire career as a faculty development specialist and biomedical journal editor. Over the course of my career I edited a number of chiropractic publications (table 1), created several of them, served as associate editor on a number more and on editorial boards of others, and am regularly asked to review papers from a variety of both medical and chiropractic publications.

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