BREAKING: Mattiello To Pull $1M Funding for Controversial Chiropractor

BREAKING: Mattiello To Pull $1M Funding for Controversial Chiropractor

Speaker of the House Nick Mattiello will be submitting an amendment to remove the funding for the controversial $1 million subsidy to chiropractor Victor Pedro, GoLocal has learned.

The funding came to light in an article in the UpriseRI, a progressive news website, after the House Finance Committee approved the proposed 2020 fiscal year state budget.

Researchers from across Rhode Island are now questioning the science behind Pedro’s work and his qualifications.

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"Cortical Integrative Therapy is an innovative treatment for brain-based disorders. It more accurately pinpoints and identifies the injured or under-performing areas of the brain. Non-invasive audio, visual, visual-motor, and proprioceptive activities are then used to repair brain pathways for more effective and longer-lasting outcomes," Pedro writes about his process.

Pedro‘s Cortical Integrative Therapy, has previously received approximately $2 million in State funding.

Pedro over the years has been a political donor, but he has donated just $6,100 over the past decade plus to a range of politicians.

The letter is signed by:

Daisy Bassen, MD, Vice-President, Rhode Island Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
David Mandelbaum, MD, Director, Division of Child Neurology, Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Molly Tracy, MD, Child Neurologist, Boston Children’s Hospital
William Brown, MD, Medical Director, Child Neurology, Hasbro Children’s Hospital
James Ingraham, MD, President, Rhode Island Psychiatric Society
Elizabeth Lowenhaupt, MD, Secretary, Rhode Island Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Audrey Tyrka, MD, Director of Research, Butler Hospital and Director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Translational Neuroscience
Gerrit Vanschalkywk, MD, Unit Chief, Adolescent Unit, Butler Hospital
Paul Christopher, MD, adult psychiatry
Naureen Attiullah, MD, adult psychiatry
Kimberley Chiappone, MD, adult psychiatry
Marta Majczak, MD, child psychiatry
Kathryn Fleming-Ives, MD, adult psychiatry
Michelle Rickerby, MD, child and adolescent psychiatry
Benjamin Lederer, MD, child and adolescent psychiatry
Christine Rayner, MD, adult psychiatry
Craig Kaufmann, MD, adult psychiatry
Gerald Tarnoff, MD, child and adolescent psychiatry
Pamela Hoffmann, MD, child and adolescent psychiatry
Paul Malloy, PhD, licensed psychologist
Wendy Plante, PhD, licensed psychologist
Melissa Jenkins, PhD, licensed psychologist
Anjali Palav, PhD, licensed psychologist
Nicole McLaughlin, PhD, licensed psychologist