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Jimmy Wei-Yen Chang, L.Ac.Master Jimmy Wei-Yen Chang is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine trained in Taiwan and a licensed acupuncturist in California and New York. He has over 25 years of concentrated clinical experience, applying his expertise in differential diagnosis and herbal prescription. Master Chang is the author of the pulse diagnosis manual, Pulsynergy, and he currently pursues his specialties in private practice in Hacienda Heights, California. He is widely recognized for his skills in correlating definitive pulse diagnoses with herbal prescription. If you are interested in Dr. Chang's internship program, the internship fee is $50 USD per hour with a minimum of 5 hours daily in the clinic (therefore, a minimum of $250 USD per day). Internship application: please contact Mimi @ 626-820-8858. CLASSES BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010
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Alex Yuan-Da Chen, L.Ac., O.M.D., Ph.D.Dr. Alex Chen is a master of herbs, qi gong and tui-na. He has taught at South Baylo University, Yuin University and Royal University of America as well as teaching numerous professional and continuing education seminars in the U.S. and abroad. His love for Oriental Medicine is evident through his life-long devotion to the profession, and reflected by the passion and dedication he embodies, and the inspiration he provides to his children to pursue the same career path. CLASS BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Eric K, Chen, Esq., O.M.D., Ph.D.Licensed to practice law in California since 1994 and in Nevada since 1996, Eric Chen received his Juris Doctor from Southwestern University School of Law in 1994. He currently has law offices in both California and Nevada, specializing in personal injury, healthcare, medical malpractice, and business litigation. Dr. Chen is legal counsel to the California Acupuncture Medicine Association (CAMA), California Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CAAOM), and the Council of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Association (CAOMA). |
John K. Chen, Pharm.D, L.Ac., O.M.D., Ph.D.Dr. John Chen is a recognized authority in both western pharmacology and Chinese Herbal Medicine, having combined formal training in both fields with extensive research 'on the ground' in China. He teaches at the USC School of Pharmacy, Emperor's College, Yo San University of TCM, OCOM, Five Branches, AOMA and ACTCM, and has taught numerous professional seminars across the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Chen's published works include Chinese Medical Herbology and Pharmacology (2003, AOM Press) and Chinese Herbal Formulas and Applications (2008, AOM Press) for which works he is the lead author. CLASSES BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Misha Ruth Cohen, L.Ac., O.M.D.Misha Cohen graduated from San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and is the Clinical Director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, Executive Director of the MRCE Foundation, Research Chairperson of Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, and Research Specialist of Integrative Medicine at the University of California Institute for Health and Aging, all in San Francisco. She is also an elected Fellow to the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She has been practicing traditional Asian medicine for the past 33 years. For more than twenty years, Dr. Cohen has developed Chinese traditional medicine treatment protocols for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, PMS, infertility, endometriosis, HPV-related diseases and menopausal syndromes. She has written numerous articles, appeared on national radio and TV, and has published several books on the topics of HIV, hepatitis and other subjects. Dr. Cohen is recognized internationally as a senior teacher and leading expert in Chinese traditional medicine. She was invited several times by the Chinese government to present her programs, and her articles on HIV/AIDS have been officially translated for use in China. CLASSES BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Robert Doane, L.Ac.Robert Doane, M.S., L.Ac. and his wife, Anne, started the Acupuncture & Wellness Center, P.S. in Poulsbo, WA, in 1998. The clinic rapidly became the largest private Chinese medical clinic in the State of Washington. Doane holds a Master of Oriental Medicine, is NCCAOM certified in both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine, and is licensed to practice acupuncture in the State of Washington. He has lectured extensively on health throughout India, Europe, and the United States. Robert Doane has a passion for sharing keys to practice building with as many practitioners as possible, and to advance the effectiveness and visibility of TCM. CLASSES BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Tien-Qi Ho, Orthopedic Doctor, ChinaMaster Ho, Mongolian in descent, is famous in the Sichuan Province for osteopathic and sports medicine. As the 5th generation heir of Ho's osteopathy, Master Ho has perpetuated his family style and techniques for over 40 years. He has lectured throughout China as well as in Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, Canada, the United States, Malaysia, Germany and Russia. He is the attending physician to China's Women's Softball team. Master Ho started Ho's Osteopathic Research Hospital in 1989 and employs over 20 tui-na specialists, all of whom were personally trained by him. The hospital sees over 50,000 people per year, and the majority of treatment techniques includes tui-na, bone setting, and application of external and internal herbs. |
Li-Chun Huang, L.Ac.Li-Chun Huang is the founder and current dean of Auricular Medicine International Research and Training Center. Her expertise in the field arises from her continuous research, and immense clinical and instructional experience. Dr. Huang has conducted over 150 seminars in auricular therapy worldwide, including the International Acupuncture and Moxibustion Class sponsored by the World Health Organization (W.H.O). Dr. Huang's years of training and devotion to research have enabled her to publish numerous texts on auricular acupuncture, including Auricular Medicine, Handbook of Auricular Treatment Prescriptions & Formulas, Auricular Diagnosis with Color Pictures, and others. CLASS BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
David Karaba, L.Ac., D.O.M.Dr. Karaba has been a tireless advocate of acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Currently, he is the vice-president of the National Guild of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and is a commissioner for National Oriental Medicine Accreditation Agency. He is also a contributing member of the Foundation for Acupuncture Research which is currently in the second edition of the Acupuncture Electroacupuncture Evidenced Based Guidelines. He has contributed to several books and publications including Chinese Herbal Medicine and Pharmacology, Chinese Herbal Formulas and Applications, and the nationally recognized Acupuncture and Electroacupuncture Evidenced Based Guidelines. Dr. Karaba has lectured extensively to the general public, fellow acupuncturists and medical doctors alike on various topics, including the history and development of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, the scientific and physiological aspects of acupuncture, Taijiquan, and the reduction of falls in the elderly, pain management, arthritis, stress, and other disorders helped by acupuncture and integrative medicine. |
Donald Kendall, L.Ac., O.M.D.Dr. Donald Kendall, author of Dao of Chinese Medicine, first became involved with Chinese medicine after graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in engineering, when he adopted the use of Chinese herbs as his primary health care strategy. This led to the study of physiology and Chinese medicine, culminating in a degree from the California Acupuncture College as Doctor of Oriental Medicine. Dr. Kendall has more than twenty years of private clinical experience, including acupuncture research at the UCLA dental school and as a staff member at the UCLA’s Center for East-West Medicine. Dr. Kendall has also served on the boards of several state and national professional organizations for acupuncture and Oriental medicine. He has developed and taught acupuncture orthopedics and dental acupuncture certification courses, and has participated in veterinary medical acupuncture training programs. He lectures extensively around the United States, as well as internationally, and has published a number of articles on various aspects of Chinese medicine, with an emphasis on how acupuncture works. CLASSES BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Jun-Qing Luo, Daoist Master, Orthopedic Specialist, ChinaDr. Jun-Qing Luo is the 7th-generation heir of the well-known Luo-Clan Orthopedics. He has been studying Shaolin-style martial art since childhood and is specialized in treating traumatic injuries. Dr. Luo has over 20 years of clinical experience and has treated over 28,000 patients by using the Luo-Clan Bone-Setting Methods, which are very effective in treating diseases, such as cervical spondylopathy, stiff neck, and knee joint arthritis, etc. He has developed a unique theory and formula for treating orthopedic diseases. In addition, Dr. Luo also integrates the Luo-Clan Methods with acupoint-pressing methods to treat a number of internal diseases, such as diarrhea, prostaic hyperplasia, migraine, headaches, stomachaches, and insomnia. |
Devi Nambudripad, M.D., D.C., L.Ac., Ph.D.Dr. Devi Nambudripad is a Doctor of Chiropractic and Licensed Acupuncturist. In an effort to solve personal health problems she had suffered since childhood, and help others with similar problems, she has conducted research in the U.S. over the past twenty-four years. Her efforts have resulted in the development of a new and effective approach, known as Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques (NAET®), for diagnosis and treatment of allergies and allergy-related health disorders of all types. NAET focuses on natural, non-invasive, drug-free solutions to elimination of allergies of all types, as well as using a combination of treatment procedures from acupuncture/acupressure, allopathic, chiropractic, nutritional and kinesiological disciplines of medicine. To date, thousands of patients who could not find relief elsewhere have been successfully treated for both food and environmental allergies and various allergy-based illness by NAET®, including ADHD, asthma, arthritis, autism, and many more. As an internationally-known speaker, Dr. Nambudripad has been featured on radio and television many times and has written thirteen books for the general public and fourteen books for practitioners CLASS BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Ted Priebe, L.Ac., O.M.D.A visionary in our profession, Dr. Ted Priebe has been instrumental in the inclusion of acupuncture as an approved therapy for California's workers' compensation. Practicing acupuncture in California since 1983, Dr. Priebe specializes in the study and treatment of pain in neuromuscular injury and disease, especially Complex Regional Pain Syndrome/RSD. He is part of the interdisciplinary Pain and Rehabilitation Medical Group, Accredited Pain Program in Torrance, California. Since 1993, Dr. Priebe has served in the Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers' Compensation for the State of California: at various times on the Scope of Practice Subcommittee, Utilization Review Committee, and Acupuncture Research Committee. As a leading expert, he currently sits on the Medical Evidence Advisory Committee. |
Ray Rubio, D.A.O.M., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac., Dipl. CH, FABORMDr. Ray Rubio has been in private practice at Westlake Complementary Medicine in Los Angeles for over a decade, and was on clinical staff at the Toluca Lake Health Center "a multidisciplinary outpatient medical clinic" for half of that time. He has lectured locally and internationally on Chinese Medicine, and has appeared on radio and television as a guest speaker on the subject of Complimentary Medicine. Dr. Rubio was also the founder of the Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine program at the Los Angeles Free Clinic in conjunction with Emperor's College. Dr. Rubio has been on Faculty at Emperor's College since 1999 where he instructs students in Herbal Medicine and Oriental Diagnosis. He is also a supervisor in the Emperor's College Clinic. Dr. Rubio is also a member of the American Association of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, and he is a graduate of the first cohort in the Doctoral Program at Emperor's College of Oriental Medicine. Dr. Rubio's specialty is Women's Health, with an emphasis in Reproductive Medicine and the treatment of infertility. He works both with patients who would prefer to conceive naturally, and those who will be utilizing assisted reproductive techniques (ART). He speaks to infertility support groups on a regular basis, and he is a member of the American and Pacific Societies for Reproductive Medicine (ABORM). He is currently in the process of conducting a clinical trial on the treatment of diminished ovarian reserve with Chinese Herbal Medicine in patient undergoing IVF. CLASSES BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Richard Teh-Fu Tan, L.Ac., O.M.D.Dr. Richard Tan is a leading authority in our profession. His skills represent the culmination of years of study. At age seven, he began his studies in Chinese Medicine in his family in Taiwan, and apprenticed with numerous masters in herbal medicine, five elements, acupuncture channel theory, zang fu energetics, feng shui and qi cultivation. Early in his career, he treated hundreds of patients who were also receiving western medical care, in an army hospital. In addition, Dr. Tan studied engineering for ten years, moving to the U.S. in the latter half of those studies. Hearing colleagues here complain about lack of clinical results and how long it took for patients to feel better, Dr. Tan was concerned: classical texts state that the effectiveness of acupuncture treatments should be seen immediately, just as the shadow appears instantly when a pole is placed under the sun. This motivated him to begin teaching and sharing his knowledge and experience as widely as possible, as well as seeing thousands of patients in his twenty years of practice in San Diego. Dr. Tan has written Twelve and Twelve in Acupuncture, Twenty-Four More in Acupuncture, Shower of Jewels, Dr. Tan's Strategy of Twelve Magical Points and Acupuncture 1,2,3. He plans a future book, Acupuncture 1,2,3 for Internal Disorders. CLASS BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Matt Van Benschoten, L.Ac.Dr. Van Benschoten is a graduate of the California Acupuncture College of Los Angeles, with 28 years of clinical, research, and teaching experience in acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and medical Qi Gong. He is the author of more than fifty papers on acupoint diagnostic methods, chronic fatigue syndrome, AIDS, autoimmune disease, breast cancer, mercury toxicity, and indoor mold exposure. His clinical practice focuses on multidrug resistant infections, immune dysfunction, and environmental illness. CLASSES BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Xiao-Ping Wang, L.Ac., D.O.M., Ph.D.Dr. Wang started his studies in the 1st Hospital of Beijing Medical College in 1974. In practice since 1985 in the US, Dr. Wang has developed his own technique of treating soft tissue injuries, which he calls 'Finger Surgery.' He has lectured widely on this topic, including lectures in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guilin, San Jose, Singapore and Berlin. Dr. Wang has received outstanding recognition by TCM universities and osteopathic hospitals in China for his thesis presentations. He has published more than 20 articles and is the author of 'Finger Surgery' for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Dr. Wang currently teaches and practices in Cupertino, California. |
David Wells, D.C., L.Ac.Dr. Wells has been a tireless advocate of acupuncture and Oriental medicine, serving as President of the California Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, President of the Council of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Associations, founder and President of the Center for Oriental Medical Research and Education and Bylaws Chair of the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He helped pass legislation to retain acupuncturists as providers in Workers' Compensation and MediCal, and to allow acupuncture professional associations to perform peer review. He was also one of the presenters to the FDA/NIH to legalize the acupuncture needle. In his continuing efforts to include acupuncturists in the healthcare system, he founded and was President of AcuNET, the first company to include acupuncturists in managed care. Later, as Medical Director of Landmark Healthcare, he brought inclusion of acupuncture as a covered benefit through insurance companies in 17 states. He also wrote the first insurance benefits that included herbal medicine prescribed by licensed acupuncturists. He was lead author and presenter of the acupuncture billing codes, getting them into the AMA CPT codebooks in 1997 and 2004, so that we can bill insurance companies for our services. His private practice is focused primarily on musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. He currently treats around 120 patients per week using a combination of acupuncture, non-force chiropractic, herbs, nutrition and therapeutic exercise. He has taught acupuncture orthopedics all over the United States and in Korea. |
Robert Teng-Fang Wu, L.Ac., O.M.D.Robert Teng-Fang Wu practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiwan for over twenty years, seeing an average of sixty to one-hundred patients daily. Now licensed in California, Dr. Wu has a thriving practice in San Diego, CA. Dr. Wu has been studying and applying iridology in diagnosis throughout his career, and has documented hundreds of cases correlating iridology with specific symptoms and diseases. Considered an expert in this specialty, Dr. Wu applies it in particular to sports injury and sinusitis. Dr. Wu holds Doctorates of Oriental Medicine from Shanghai University, China, and South Baylo University in the US, and is also licensed to practice in Arizona, and Georgia in the U.S., and Australia. He has had a radio show on health for eight years. CLASSES BY THIS SPEAKER IN 2010 |
Ming-Qing Zhu, L.Ac.Ming-Qing Zhu, a leading scalp acupuncturist in China, is the founder of Zhu's Scalp Acupuncture (ZSA), one of four scalp acupuncture systems widely-known in China. He served as assistant director of the Scalp Points Research Group of the Chinese Acupuncture Association from 1987 to 1989. With his expertise in scalp acupuncture, Dr. Zhu has treated thousands of stroke patients with remarkable results, and has continued to apply his special techniques to other neurological disorders. |