Christine Goertz Choate, DC, PhD, received her doctorate in health services research, policy, and administration from the University of Minnesota and her doctor of chiropractic degree from Northwestern Health Sciences University. She is currently executive director of the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research and president of the Choate Group LLC, a research and communication strategies consulting firm. Dr. Choate is also on the faculty at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Her professional experience includes tenures as deputy director of the Samueli Institute and as a program official at the National Institutes of Health. She is the author of numerous scientific publications in journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Controlled Clinical Trials and is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Choate has served as president of the Bethesda Chapter of the Association for Women in Science and chair of the Chiropractic Health Care Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). She is a member of the APHA Action Board and the 2006 recipient of the American Chiropractic Association's Researcher of the Year Award.