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Dr. Croft is the director of the Spine Research Institute of San Diego and president of the Center for Research into Automotive Safety and Health (CRASH). He has been actively engaged in whiplash research for the past 19 years and has co-authored a best-selling textbook on whiplash Whiplash Injuries: the Cervical Acceleration/Deceleration Syndrome (now in its third edition), and temporomandibular disorders (Whiplash and Temporomandibular Disorders: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Case Management) along with several other books, textbook chapters, and almost 300 professional papers. He is board certified in Orthopaedics (American Board of Chiropractic Orthopaedists), Forensic Medicine (American Board of Forensic Medicine), and Accident Reconstruction Northwestern University's Traffic Institute), and has also been appointed as an Independent Medical Examiner by the state of California, where he also served as an Examination Commissioner for the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners from 1992-1998. Most recently he was appointed as a Commissioner for Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters (CCGPP) Dr. Croft is a grant proposal reviewer at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Foundation for Chiropractic Education (FCER), and he serves as an expert analyst for DC Tracts, an associate editor for the Journal of the Neuromusculoskeletal System and, formerly, for the West Coast UDT/SEAL Association Newsletter. He also serves as an editorial board member for the journal Topics in Diagnostic Radiology and Advanced Imaging and the Palmer Journal of Research, and as a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and the journal Chiropractic Technique. He has also worked on several research projects at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Croft is an assistant adjunct professor in the department of diagnosis at Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. He teaches postgraduate orthopaedics at LACC and is also on the postgraduate faculty of New York Chiropractic College and Western States Chiropractic College. His awards include First Place in the Scientific Papers Award of 1984, and Third Place in the Scientific Papers Award of 1987 by the American Chiropractic Association. He received an Emmy nomination in 1991 from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his role in the production Whiplash. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award in 1992 by the Pennsylvania Chiropractic Society and the Educational Excellence Award in 1992 by the Florida Chiropractic Association, and in 1995 he was awarded the Chiropractor of the Century Award--1895-1995 by the San Diego Society of the California Chiropractic Association. He lectures extensively in the U.S. and abroad and teaches the award-winning four-Module program on Whiplash (Whiplash 2004). In addition to his work in the field of chiropractic, Dr. Croft was a drowning homicide investigator, underwater criminal investigator, and trained hyperbaric chamber operator. Until recently, he was the Diving Medical Officer and an underwater search and recovery diver for the San Diego Sheriff's Office.
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