Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC, FACP

It was not until the author entered specialty training and witnessed first hand the shambles that the health care profession had made of whiplash that he felt compelled to seek the truth by peering deeper into this medicolegal and social conundrum. As an internal medicine and rheumatology training fellow, he began a literature search that took him back to the 19th century and Railway Spine, and forward through thousands of articles on the topic, until models of chronic whiplash evolved, and the seedy underbelly of this problem revealed itself. Whiplash, he learned, is not so much a matter of science, but more so of society.

While in private practice in Canada as an internist with an interest in musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatic diseases, and chronic pain, the author went on to become a leading researcher on whiplash, collaborating with researchers in Lithuania, Norway, Germany, and Greece. He is the most published person on the topic of whiplash, with an excess of 100 peer-reviewed articles in a wide array of scientific journals and many more to come.

He is the author of Rheumatology Guidebook, Thin Skulls and Physical Injury, and Life After Whiplash.