Chiroeco.com
REPORTS HERE that "the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) had ...recently hired Executive Vice President William K. O’Connell."
“ACA’s board of governors, its staff, and grass roots support of
chiropractors throughout the country have worked for years on the
inclusion of chiropractic as an equal member of the nation’s healthcare
providers,” says O’Connell.
“What has been achieved is a major step
forward, but anyone familiar with the regulatory process understands,
once legislation becomes law, this is just the beginning of the
beginning. In fact, the real work now begins. And it may take up to six
years to sort things out as all the various professional disciplines in
the healthcare community vie for ensuring they benefit most by how the
regulations of the law are promulgated,” says O’Connell.
O'Connell's qualifications include:
• "He is an undergraduate of the University of California at Berkeley, has a master’s degree in business administration from the University of San Francisco, and a master’s degree in public administration from Northern Illinois University."
• "He was the assistant executive director for the American Dietetic Association in Chicago for six years."
• "He then went on to be the deputy director and chief financial officer for the American Osteopathic Association (also in Chicago) for 12 years."
• "He became the number two executive officer for the American Board of Anesthesiology based in Raleigh, N.C., for seven years."
• "He eventually moved to Washington, D.C., and in the next five years, served as executive director of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, and then executive director, government affairs at the National Safety Council."
“I was raised on the East Coast — Boston and New York — but after Catholic high school, I traveled to the West Coast determined to be of some public service,” says O’Connell.
“I was concerned with poor people’s civil rights and ended up joining the VISTA program as a community organizer for migrant workers in the San Joaquin Valley of California.”
"At Berkeley, O’Connell studied cultural anthropology while living in Oakland and commuting to college on a bicycle. To pay for school, rent, and food, he taught school."
"O’Connell attributes his initial interest in healthcare to his father, who was an executive with pharmaceutical companies."
