FVS Fellow Brooke Mills Wins Miss New Hampshire Pageant

Brooke Mills, a soon to be graduate of Sherman College of Chiropractic and a Research Fellow with the Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation, just won the Miss New Hampshire Pageant and will go on to compete for the Miss America title in January 2024.

"Along with so many others we are extremely proud of Brooke on so many levels. She is a student, a researcher, pageant competitor, humanitarian - I could go on and on about the accomplishments and challenges this young woman has faced and through it all she has persevered" stated Matthew McCoy DC, MPH Vice President of the Foundation.

Mills received a Fellowship from the Foundation early in her education at Sherman right about the beginning of COVID and the attack on the professions ability to discuss the role of chiropractic on immunity. She was immediately thrust into the data gathering aspect for the initial stage of the Foundation's immunity project and the series of papers that were published including the Best Practices document on immunity. She has also been working with Dr. Amy Haas on the next phase of that project.

In addition to that she has represented the Foundation (and by extension - Sherman College) all over the country for the past several years attending chiropractic events and speaking on our behalf. In addition to the research piece, she essentially helps support all of the FVS scholarship students at Sherman, recruits new ones and keeps the lines of communication flowing.

"Her second to none grasp of the philosophy of chiropractic has allowed us to give her a great deal of latitude in terms of representing and speaking on behalf of the Foundation" added McCoy.

In addition to all this she received a Young Researcher Award from the Foundation during the International Research & Philosophy Symposium (IRAPS) held during the 50th Anniversary Lyceum at Sherman on May 6th.

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The mission of the Foundation is to advocate for and advance the founding principles and tenets of the chiropractic profession in the area of vertebral subluxation through research, education, policy and service.