Gert Bronfort, DC, PhD
Professor, Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program
Contact
Email
Office Phone
Office Address
Mayo C504
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
Mailing Address
Mayo Memorial Building
MMC 505
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States
Education
PhD, Extramural Medicine, Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Doctor of Chiropractic, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Toronto, Canada
Summary
For more than 25 years, Dr. Gert Bronfort has been a leader in research investigating conservative and integrative care for disabling and costly musculoskeletal pain conditions. Long a proponent of interdisciplinary collaboration, Dr. Bronfort has formed numerous regional, national and international partnerships to conduct innovative, high impact patient-oriented research. He has lead numerous federally funded randomized clinical trials investigating manual therapies, exercise and self-care and has authored several high profile systematic reviews. Dr. Bronfort is a long-standing and active member of the Cochrane Collaboration’s Low Back Pain Editorial Group, as well as the Cervical Overview Group. He has served on several national and international committees including the Advisory Council for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administrations’ Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-Based Linkages.
Research
Research Summary/Interests
- Self-management strategies
- Complementary and integrative therapies (mind-body)
- Wellbeing
- Musculoskeletal pain (low back pain, neck pain, headache)
- Spinal biomechanics
Research Funding Grants
Partners for Pain & Wellbeing Equity: A Randomized Trial of Community Supported Complementary and Integrative Health Self Management for Back Pain (1R61AT012309-01 Evans/Leininger) -- National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary & Integrative Health
Spinal Manipulation and Patient Self-Management to Prevent Back Pain Chronicity -- PACBACK (4UH3AT008769, Bronfort) -- National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary & Integrative Health
Mindful Movement for Physical Activity and Wellbeing in Older Adults: A Community Based Randomized Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Study (4R33AT0009110, Evans) -- National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health
Testing two scalable, Veteran-centric mindfulness-based interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain: A pragmatic, multisite trial (W81XWH182, Burgess) -- Department of Defense
Publications
Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1Z_CxN1fzIDQi/bibliography/47920843/public/?sort=date&direction=descending