Larry Kuusisto is the vice president of Education at LifeScience Alley, a major Midwest health industry trade association, and is the executive director of their non-profit research affiliate, Alley Institute, based in Minneapolis, Minn. He was vice president of Educational Resources at Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, Minn. until 2002, and was a postdoctoral MnCAM fellow at the University of Minnesota from 2003 to 2005. Kuusisto has a doctoral degree in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota and a DC from Northwestern College of Chiropractic. Prior to his current work in research and education, Kuusisto practiced chiropractic for 20 years in private practice and at Northwestern College of Chiropractic.