Bonnie Hillsberg, DC, MHA, MEd

Bonnie S. Hillsberg is a nationally board certified licensed chiropractor. In addition to her doctorate in chiropractic, Dr. Hillsberg holds a master's degree in health care administration from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a master's degree in education from Boston College.

Dr. Hillsberg is an active member of the American Public Health Association's (APHA) chiropractic section and is a strong advocate of preventive health. Her previous work includes health care project development, management, marketing, training and education and working with populations that have special needs such as the physically disabled and neurologically impaired. Her interest and work includes a wide variety of soft tissue, muscular-skeletal and neural conditions.

Dr. Hillsberg has been very active in national chiropractic and alternative care projects. She has worked on protocols to include chiropractors in the US Public Health Service Corps and contributed to the HRSA-funded "Model Course for Public Health Education" developed for chiropractic colleges through a collaborative agreement between Yale University, the University of Bridgeport College of Chiropractic and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

Dr. Hillsberg participated in the editorial review of Dr. Adrienne Fugh-Berman's chapter on complementary and alternative medicine for the 2005 publication of Our Bodies Ourselves. She was one of the editors of the Bone Chapter in the 2006 Our Body Ourselves: Menopause book. She has published a series of articles on chiropractic and the health care delivery system in Today's Chiropractic and more recently in the June 2009 publication of Dynamic Chiropractic. She is an extension faculty member at Palmer Chiropractic College and lectures in the Masters in Physiology Department at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Hillsberg is a current member of the APHA Action Board representing the chiropractic section of APHA.

Dr. Hillsberg was selected to work with the relief staff at the Ground Zero site at the World Trade Towers in 2001 and 2002 and was part of the emergency public health staff in Washington, DC, during the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in 2005. In addition to her role as a senior manager in a Native American owned company specializing in public health, education and economic development issues, Dr. Hillsberg has a private practice located in Washington, DC.