Board of Trustees

The Institute of Classical Osteopathy is run by Registered Charity Number 1020193 to promote Classical Osteopathy. This is why our main sources of income are donations and annual subscription fees in order to provide postgraduate courses, conferences, workshops and book/video editions. Therefore, our board of trustees is a very important part of the company, and we would like to thank them for helping us to keep the ICO up and running.

Mervyn Waldman | President

Robert Cartwright | Chairman

Henry Lee | Trustee

Pindy Cumming | Trustee

Diego Gomez | Trustee

Chris Batten | Trustee

Ambassadors

Three men standing together against a plain background, smiling. The man on the left has white hair and a beard, wearing glasses, a light blue shirt, and a beige zip-up jacket. The man in the middle has short dark hair and glasses, wearing a checkered shirt and a black vest. The man on the right is older, with a bald head and a gray beard, wearing a dark sweater with glasses hanging from his collar, and khaki pants. All three are holding small blue objects in their hands.

The ICO is happy to name our ambassadors for the knowledge and appreciation they have for our institution. Specially, they have represented during their careers the authentic passion, dedication, and commitment to the Science and Art of Classical Osteopathy.

Chris Campell | Christian Fossum | Mervyn Waldman

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MERVYN WALDMAN

Mervyn is President of the ICO and has been working in hospitals and private practice in Israel since emigrating in 1990.

He qualified in 1974 from the BCOM and continued his studies in osteopathy under the close tutelage of John Wernham and T.E. Hall. Working alongside John Wernham for some 15 years, a two-volume text on Osteopathic Technique was co-authored and published in 1982. Subsequently, and to date, articles on Classical Osteopathy have been regularly published in professional journals, and two sets of instructional DVDs on Classical Osteopathic Technique have also been issued.

Mervyn has recently established hospital-based workshops on Classical Osteopathy in The Institute of Pain Medicine in the Rambam University Hospital in Haifa, Israel. It is his hope to provide students and graduates with an opportunity to see Classical Osteopathic treatment applied in a hospital setting with particularly difficult patients. He is also a regular guest lecturer both in Europe and Japan with a particular concern and interest in seeing the ICO flourish and continue to be the flagship of Classical Osteopathy worldwide.

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CHRISTIAN FOSSUM

Christian Fossum is an academic, researcher and osteopath who are currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences at the University College Kristiania, Oslo, Norway. Past roles include Vice Principal of the European School of Osteopathy in Maidstone, England; Assistant Professor in the Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kirksville, USA; Associate Director, A.T. Still Research Institute, Kirksville, USA. He has lectured at Schools and given postgraduate courses worldwide, and participated in the publication of numerous book chapters and articles, including the books “Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine” and “Textbook of Osteopathic Medicine”.

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CHRIS CAMPELL

Chris Campbell graduated from the Maidstone College of Osteopathy in 1988 and continued to study under John Wernham up to the early part of this century.

During that time he served for a number of years as Vice Principal under Wernham and as Chairperson of the Institute of Classical Osteopathy.

On returning to Ireland for family reasons in 1988, he set up practice in Dublin and commuted to Maidstone to fulfil his duties as Vice Principal, a position he had to relinquish as his practice and family responsibilities grew.

Chris Campbell currently practises from the Littlejohn Centre in Dublin and continues to teach osteopathic principles, technique and the treatment of children, mostly at postgraduate level..