Contact Information

Department of Epidemiology
UCLA School of Public Health
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
On-campus mail: 41-257 CHS 177220
Tel: (310) 206-4074
Fax: (310) 206-7371
E-mail: ehurwitz@ucla.edu

Biosketch

Dr. Hurwitz has more than a decade of epidemiologic and integrative health-care research experience and has recently been the project director for two federally funded randomized clinical trials addressing the effectiveness of chiropractic and medical care for low-back and neck pain. With funding from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), Dr. Hurwitz is currently studying the interrelationships of psychosocial, behavioral, and immune factors in spinal pain. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Scientific Secretariat of The Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Associated Disorders. Dr. Hurwitz is an author or coauthor of numerous integrative medicine-related articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Public Health, Spine, and the Annals of Internal Medicine, and serves as a reviewer for NCCAM.

Selected References

Hurwitz EL, Coulter ID, Adams AH, Genovese BJ, Shekelle PG. Use of chiropractic services from 1985 through 1991 in the United States and Canada. American Journal of Public Health. 1998; 88:771-776.

Hurwitz EL, Morgenstern H, Harber P, Kominski GF, Belin TR, Yu F, Adams AH. A randomized trial of medical care with and without physical therapy and chiropractic care with and without physical modalities for patients with low-back pain: Six-month follow-up outcomes from the UCLA Low-Back Pain Study. Spine. In press.

Hurwitz EL, Morgenstern H, Harber P, Kominski GF, Yu F, Adams AH. A randomized trial of chiropractic manipulation and mobilization for patients with neck pain: clinical outcomes from the UCLA Neck Pain Study. American Journal of Public Health. In press.