An exemplary professional who is compassionate, inquisitive, innovative, authentic, and caring as a leader, osteopathic practitioner, entrepreneur, scholar, and educator. Rob is the Founder and Principal of the Canadian Osteopathic Academy and for the past 22 years has been responsible for its progressive development and maturity creating a community of osteopathic education and practice within and beyond the surrounding Hamilton and Calgary neighborhoods. Rob is involved in all aspects of the CAO’s operations as both a post-secondary private college and as a health care provider of osteopathic care to patients in its public clinics.
Rob has extensive experience in change management, visionary leadership and capacity development. He leads faculty engagement, financial stewardship, program assessment, design, and development and is driven towards excellence in the quality of osteopathic education.
Rob’s philosophy of education informs his expectations of teaching and learning at the CAO. He believes that central to learning and teaching is a profound “respect for the student who is driven with aspiration and goals and that education involves more than imparting knowledge.
An exemplary professional who is compassionate, inquisitive, innovative, authentic, and caring as a leader, osteopathic practitioner, entrepreneur, scholar, and educator. Rob is the Founder and Principal of the Canadian Osteopathic Academy and for the past 22 years has been responsible for its progressive development and maturity creating a community of osteopathic education and practice within and beyond the surrounding Hamilton and Calgary neighborhoods. Rob is involved in all aspects of the CAO’s operations as both a post-secondary private college and as a health care provider of osteopathic care to patients in its public clinics.
Rob has extensive experience in change management, visionary leadership and capacity development. He leads faculty engagement, financial stewardship, program assessment, design, and development and is driven towards excellence in the quality of osteopathic education.
Rob’s philosophy of education informs his expectations of teaching and learning at the CAO. He believes that central to learning and teaching is a profound “respect for the student who is driven with aspiration and goals and that education involves more than imparting knowledge.
Publications
Applied Technique and Treatment: Volume 1
General Osteopathic Treatment: An Introduction to the Principles of Classical Osteopathic Treatment
Compendium Volume 1: Osteopathic Principles and Concepts
Osteopathic Principles: Applied in Mechanics and Treatment
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Highlights of Qualifications
- Subject-matter expert in Osteopathy and an experienced Osteopathic Manual P
- Distinguished scholar with numerous publications and teaching innovations in the area of student resources, practice assessments, and student leadership development and mentorship programs.
- Co-founder of the Canadian Academy of Osteopathy,
- Founder of and contributor to the Canadian Journal of Osteopathy, ‘the Osteopathyst’.
- Founder of Osteopathy Canada, a national council that represents provincial osteopathic associations and its members.
Short Stories
The Essence of Education
The Essence of Education So I take teaching very seriously. I always say that my school, the CAO, is a…
Fatherhood
Fatherhood Growing up with very few resources the one resource I did have was my father who, although he was…
Growing up with Business Sense
Growing up with Business Sense I had to learn to become resourceful and independent very early in life and to…