Gert Bronfort, DC, PhD

Professor, Integrative Health and Wellbeing Research Program
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Contact

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

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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