Collaboration in Chiropractic (Panel)

Dr. Alli Totzke-Hitzeroth, DC, MPP, has been a leader in the profession from early on. She had been involved with professional organizations with a multitude of titles including the ACA, World Federation of Chiropractic, ChiroCongress, Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, and the Unified Virginia State Association.  She has engaged with policymakers at all levels, with an extensive background of legislative and advocacy work spanning topics from the Medicare bill, rural healthcare accessibility, nutritional research, and diplomacy. She has often been a voice for change in connecting other chiropractors with roles that fit them well, providing fellowship and guidance to others along the way. She is a graduate from National University of Health Sciences, practices acupuncture and chiropractic in rural Virginia, and works to educate the future of healthcare as an anatomy instructor at South University as an adjunct professor. 

Cindy Chapman, DC, MPH, is an ORISE research and evaluation fellow with the Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Division of the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In this capacity, she works to support and analyze the effectiveness and impact of the EPC program and other AHRQ programs. She is also an adjunct associate professor at Northeastern College of Health Sciences.

At ACA, Dr. Chapman serves on the Public Health Advisory Board and as vice chair of the Code Utilization and Application Subcommittee, which is part of the Health Policy and Advocacy Committee. In 2024, she was selected to be an ACA Health Policy Fellow.

Before joining AHRQ, Dr. Chapman was a practicing clinician for over 20 years with additional training in acupuncture and chiropractic for pregnant people. She has served as a peer reviewer for many conferences and journals and is a frequent conference presenter. She has held leadership roles in state and national professional associations, including the American Public Health Association and the Unified Virginia Chiropractic Association. She completed a practicum at the RAND Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Center, and in 2023 was selected as a participant in the MAR-PHTC Public Health Leadership Institute.

Zachary Cupler, DC, MS has been a chiropractor and licensed acupuncturist for 10 years. For the past nine years, he has served as a staff clinician at VA Butler Health Care System. He leads the interdisciplinary pain management team and provides clinical care for acute and chronic pain conditions within the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service.  

Beyond the clinic, Dr. Cupler chairs the VA Butler Health Care System Pain Management and Opioid Review Committees and serves as the facility’s pain point of contact for the Pain Management, Opioid Safety and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. He was named to the SpineLine’s 2022 class of “20 Under 40.”  

Currently, he is a Scientific Commission board representative to Clinical Compass, a not-for-profit think tank to improve patient outcomes by advancing evidence–based care to transform health care through knowledge translation. He also serves as a member of the American Chiropractic Association’s Opioid and Research Advisory Boards and the North American Spine Society’s Clinical Practice Guidelines Council.   

Dr. Cupler’s research interest spans the evaluation and management of acute and chronic spinal pain conditions. His investigations include systematic and scoping reviews as well as retrospective observational cohorts. He has more than 15 peer-reviewed publications and has served as a subject matter expert for national and multinational clinical practice guideline development for spine condition management.  

Morgan Price, DC, is a staff chiropractor at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, Wash. She is an attending for their chiropractic residency program and educates a variety of chiropractic and non-chiropractic residents and students in her clinic. Dr. Price is also a provider in a multidisciplinary clinic in her VA system called “Movement is Medicine,” which consists of herself, a physiatrist, and a rehab psychologist and that focuses on exercise programming and patient activation.

Della Schmid, DC, MS has been a practicing chiropractor for more than 32 years in Newtown, Conn., while running her own private practice since 1993. A major contributor to her community, her chiropractic practice was recognized by the Newtown Chamber of Commerce in 2011, earning the Business of the Year Award. She also earned the Connecticut Chiropractic Association Community Service Award in 2001, underscoring her service-oriented nature.  

 In April of 2025, Dr. Schmid was elected to the AMA Healthcare Professionals Advisory Committee (HCPAC) as an advisor representing the American Chiropractic Association.  As an ACA member, Dr. Schmid volunteers on the association’s Code Utilization and Application and Code Utilization and Application Subcommittees, which fall under the Health Policy and Advocacy Committee. In these roles, she offers expert guidance to ACA staff and members on coding and related matters. In January 2025, she successfully completed ACA’s inaugural ACA Health Policy Fellowship, which was designed to develop competencies in the creation, revision, and valuation of chiropractic and physical medicine CPT codes and the navigation of the AMA CPT and RUC processes.  

Dr. Schmid demonstrated her collaborative approach to health care by sharing her extensive knowledge and clinical experience as a chiropractic consultant with the Leeway Hospital in New Haven between 1996 and 2007. She enjoys the outdoors in her spare time, especially the beach, walking her dog, and gardening.  She loves to entertain and cook for family and friends.