title: The life and contribution of Dr. Ronald Gitelman: a pioneer of modern chiropractic science.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The life and contribution to chiropractic science of Dr. Ronald Gitelman is reviewed.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sources for this article included review of the notes prepared by Dr. Joseph Keating in his "biography" of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC); review of the important articles published by Dr. Gitelman; review of the important projects undertaken by him along with various colleagues; notes from reminiscences obtained from many of these colleagues and discussions with his family.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dr. Gitelman's academic career spanned from 1963 to the late 1980's. During that time, he made foundational contributions to the development of chiropractic science including: developing the Archives (1974), the first collection of scientific articles supporting chiropractic science (which was subsequently published as the Chiropractic Archives Research Collection (CRAC)); delivering one of the few chiropractic papers at the seminal NINCDS conference (1975) and, developing the collaboration between CMCC and Dr. Kirkaldy-Willis at the University of Saskatoon (1976). He practiced in Toronto from 1961 to 2007.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dr. Gitelman was a pioneer in the development of chiropractic science. He died on October 7, 2012.
authors.affiliation: Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, 6100 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M2H 3J1, hvernon@cmcc.ca.
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vernon
keywords: Gitelman; NINCDS; pioneer