Our Team
Dr. Kim B. Khauv, DC MPH.
Founder
With over 20 years of experience, the late Dr. Kim B. Khauv, DC MPH (Doc Kim) was an award winning American Chiropractor licensed in the State of California, as well as Board Certified Doctor of Chiropractic in the United States of America. He was a “Registered Chiropractor” with the Philippines Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC). He earned a Bachelor’s Degree from California State University in Fullerton (CSUF), a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the Fielding School of Public Health at University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), and Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life Chiropractic College West (LCCW).
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Previously, Doc Kim proudly provided chiropractic care to active duty military members at the Naval Medical Center San Diego and had a private practice in San Diego, California. Doc Kim held an Adjunct Faculty position as Assistant Professor at Life Chiropractic College West where he taught Public Health course to senior chiropractic students. He was an approved instructor by the Board of Chiropractic Examiners of California to teach both online and live Continuing Education courses to chiropractors in Manila, Philippines in the subjects of Chiropractic Adjustive Technique, Law & Ethics, and chiropractic Public Health.
Doc Kim was an elected Section Councilor of the Chiropractic Health Care section (CHC) of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and served as Membership Chair. His chiropractic research has been accepted and presented nationally and internationally at APHA, Association of Chiropractic College’s annual Research Agenda Conference (ACC-RAC), International Society of Quality of Life Research, and World Chiropractic Federation (WFC). He has also published research on chiropractic care and public health education. He has been awarded the Distinguish Service Award (2015) and Rising Star Award (2013) from the APHA’s CHC section.
While attending LCCW, he founded a non-profit called Well-Balanced World, 501(c)(3), with the sole purpose of providing affordable chiropractic care to underserved populations and charitable chiropractic care on international mission trips to Cambodia and the Philippines.
Click here to read about Dr. Khauv’s incredible life, his journey to discover chiropractic, and why he is running a non-profit chiropractic clinic.
Aireen Navarro Khauv
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Aireen Navarro Khauv is an entrepreneur with over 20 years experience managing client relations and systems operations in the travel and nonprofit sectors. She is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Well-Balanced Chiropractic Wellness Center in BGC, Taguig, Metro Manila. Previously, she managed the daily operations of Encore.org (now CoGenerate, an organization that brings older and younger people together to solve problems, bridge divides and co-create the future), and The Purpose Prize (now a program of AARP), which has awarded over $5 million in prizes to social entrepreneurs over the age of 60 since 2006 in California, USA. Her love for travel led her to specialize in travel consulting with Asia to Africa Safaris (now A2A Journeys), right after transitioning from her research work with Devex.
Aireen is passionate about “paying it forward” through volunteer work, after witnessing health and education inequities first-hand during her journeys. She co-facilitates outreach programs around the Philippines and chiropractic mission trips to Cambodia through the nonprofit, Well-Balanced World 501(c)(3). And together with her late husband Dr. Kim B. Khauv, she launched the first BNI chapter in Mindanao – BNI Alliance, CDO West Region – as a way of giving back to her Mindanao roots, fully believing in the BNI system’s Givers Gain philosophy and collaborative culture as an opportunity to pave the way for local businesses to thrive, enabling them to hire more employees and provide job security. She holds a Masters in International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Tourism from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
Our Staff
Claudine Arizabal, RN
Kristina Cassandra Tapalla
Rea Joy Marcelo
Jenmar Evangelista
Beth Castillo