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.
Dr. David Adamson
Chiropractor
Dr. David ‘Doc Dave’ Adamson completed his Doctorate of Chiropractic at Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport, IA, USA in 2014. With a combined 35 years health practitioner experience, he started as a physical therapist in Seattle, Washington, USA, then owned 3 clinics that specialized in sports medicine for injuries. With his sports medicine degree, his physical therapy degree and his chiropractic license, he opened a full rehabilitation clinic in SW Florida where he served the community for 10 years.
Doc Dave was raised in Washington state where he competed as an athlete in Football, Wrestling, and track and Field. During a match in wrestling, he sustained a shoulder injury that led him to seek treatment from a physical therapist and a chiropractor. With the treatment he received, he returned to sports better than he was prior to his injury.
Doc Dave started weightlifting competitively in the United States. During his time in weightlifting competition, he won 7 US National Titles and has also Won one World Championship. After he completed his physical therapy degree, he also started playing Rugby with a high-level team in Canada. Recently, he completed the Immediate Care in Rugby (L2) course, which accredits him as a medic by World Rugby. He has had multiple injuries participating in all of the athletics. He credits his ability to continue to compete and participate in sports to the care he received under a sports chiropractor that treated him during that time.
With all the success Doc Dave has had as an athlete and as a healthcare provider, he wanted more out of his profession. He has a huge heart to make an impact on the world through chiropractic and rehab. This passion led him to the Philippines where he’s now dedicated to helping improve the quality of lives of all Filipinos through chiropractic and holistic wellness care. He says his gifts were given for a bigger purpose than just that of treating patients in his home country. He has always dedicated himself to others health and wellness and now he wants to give back to the Filipino people.
Our Staff
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