Directors

Andrew Lawrence

(Pacific)

Past President of the Australian Chiropractors Association, Dr Andrew Lawrence, has been appointed to the WFC's Board of Directors. Initially trained as a pharmacist, Dr Lawrence qualified from Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa, in 1980 and has been in continuous private practice in Melbourne, Australia for 39 years.

Dr Lawrence served a first term of office as President of the Australian Chiropractors Association (then the Chiropractors Association of Australia) between 1986 and 1990 during which time the motion for a World Federation was first discussed at the World Chiropractic Congress held in 1988 in Sydney.

Dr Lawrence has served a further two terms of office as Australian Chiropractic Association President: from 2001-2005 and most recently 2014-2018, where he presided over an historic restructuring of the association.

Dr Lawrence is in private practice in Melbourne, where he has a particular interest in family chiropractic and health promotion. Married with four children, Dr Lawrence also lectures part time at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). He joins the WFC Board as a representative for the Pacific region.