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Graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Dance and earned her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life University. She is currently completing a Masters in Nonprofit Management and Leadership through Liberty University and practices in Iowa. Dr. Zogg has been an instructor at Life University in Upper Cervical X-Ray Analysis and Thermography as well as Nutrition and Anatomy & Physiology at Muscatine Community College. She is the President of the J Clay Thompson Technique Foundation which is a non-profit that promotes the work of her grandfather, the late J. Clay Thompson. She teaches courses for continuing education in The Thompson Technique and Thermography. Dr. Zogg serves on the board of directors for the Association for the History of Chiropractic as well as the International Chiropractors Association.
Holds a BA in Chemistry Teaching from the University of Northern Iowa and is a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, IA. Steve began teaching Thompson Technique at Cleveland University – Kansas City in 2007 and postgraduate seminars all over the United States and internationally in 2010. Steve is a board member of the J. Clay Thompson Technique Foundation as well as the Association for the History of Chiropractic. He is currently the Assistant Dean of Chiropractic Education at CUKC, continues to teach History of Chiropractic and the Thompson Technique courses there, and practices in a large safety net clinic at KC CARE Health Center. Steve serves on the Higher Learning Commission’s peer review corps and is a certified Therapeutic Pain Specialist. In 2024, Steve began a Fellowship in Pain Sciences, which he hopes to complete in 2026. Dr. Agocs is passionate about teaching Thompson Technique and helping students and doctors develop the skills that will help them help others more effectively.
Dr. Mariely Perez is from Puerto Rico always had a desire to serve people and provide health through Orthopedics. She was performing Shadow in three hospitals in Puerto Rico, she realized that 90% of the patients who are about to have surgery were cases that, treated in time, could be prevented from that surgery. They just needed that health professional to push them or teach them something better. It was thus at this time that she was looking for a profession which she could perform with her hands without side effects that she found Chiropractic. She began her doctorate in Chiropractic at Life University in 2019. While in the doctorate she found The Thompson Club with which her passion for Chiropractic increased even more. She found that this technique is not only responsible for being specific and adjusting the vertebral subluxation, but also provides a gentler adjustment to the patient and in turn the speed that the drop provides makes it require less force. After this she decided to be part of the Thompson club within the university and later she became its president. In 2021 she met Dr. Beth Zogg at Life University and that would be the beginning of her desire to help the growth of this beautiful technique that Dr. Thompson left us as a legacy. She was on a technique mission trip with Dr. Zogg in Mexico and has helped in some seminars in Puerto Rico, Mexico and the United States. After graduating with her doctorate in Chiropractic in December 2022, she begins from January 2023 to the present on the Board of the J Clay Thompson Technique Foundation. She completed a postgraduate degree in Chiropractic Philosophy at Sherman College of Chiropractic from 2023 to 2024.
Dr. Marni Capes teaches a Life University, Chiropractic of College, has served as a faculty member since 1993 and currently serves as a Professor both in the Clinical Sciences division teaching Extremity Clinical Case Integration and in the Chiropractic Sciences division teaching both the Upper and Lower Extremity Adjusting classes. She is a Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner (CCEP) and teaches with the principal organization, the Council on Extremity Adjusting (CEA). She is also a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner (CCSP®) and has also taught for this program. Dr. Capes has served as the team chiropractor for high school, college and professional teams that have won over 25 national championships and generated many All-Americans. She has served with the Georgia Force Arena Football team, Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) pro beach volleyball tour, and provided care at numerous track and field events, running events, martial arts events and tennis tournaments. In her spare time, she is able to maintain a private part-time practice in Marietta, GA.
is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Sciences division of Life University’s College of Chiropractic. An alumnus of Life University, Dr. Thornhill graduated with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 2010. Prior to this, he received a BA in Biology from Huntingdon College in his hometown of Montgomery, AL. After graduating from Life, he practiced in rural Clay County, Alabama for nearly six years in a family-based chiropractic clinic. In 2015, following a call to serve Lasting Purpose through teaching, Dr. Thornhill began work in Life University’s Level III Clinic, the Chiropractic Community Outreach Center as a Faculty Clinician where he worked for five years until transitioning to full-time classroom teaching. As a lecturer and clinical lab instructor, Dr. Thornhill works with students across several quarters of the Doctor of Chiropractic curriculum. Dr. Thornhill’s approach to teaching emphasizes student goal setting and personal development. He is the current lead instructor for Life University’s philosophy courses as well as the Visceral Diagnosis (physical exam) course. Dr. Thornhill is a member of the J. Clay Thompson Technique Foundation board, and member of International Chiropractic Association (ICA). He has been published in the Journal of Pediatric, Maternal, and Family Health Chiropractic and the Journal of Chiropractic Humanities. His research interests include philosophy of mind and the philosophy of chiropractic. He is certified instructor in the Thompson Terminal Point technique, and advanced proficiency certified in Activator Methods adjusting techniques. He is currently working toward certification in the Legion of Chiropractic Philosophers (LCP) as well as a PhD in philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is a proud father of two girls and lives in Kennesaw, GA with his wife Robin.
Dr. Aram Gómez Mendoza graduated from UNEVE in Mexico City in 2013, he concluded the ACP at Sherman College, and has been a board member and LATAM president for the IFCO. He is also a Thompson Technique Certified Instructor, he has organized seven mission trips in Mexico City with over six thousand participants each one of them. He has also earned his LCP degree at Palmer and his DPHCS degree from the ICA Council of Philosophy, earned his Master's Degree in Health Administration in Mexico, and also has served as main organizer of WCCS, IFCO Global Summit, and many seminars in Mexico. He is a philosophy lecturer in Spanish, English and Portuguese and the owner of Innate Quiropráctica Pura with 17 centers in different states of Mexico. He is also the father of 4 lovely kids.
