Barbara de la Torre is a board-certified family medicine practitioner and medical acupuncturist with over 20 years of experience in the field, who runs a private practice on an entirely integrated model. She is a second-generation integrative medicine practitioner with a foot in both Eastern and Western medicine for decades: her mother was a physician in family medicine and a Chinese medicine trailblazer who became the first woman president of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA). Barbara currently serves on the board of the AAMA, a medical organization dedicated to integrating medicine and acupuncture. She served six years on the Acupuncture Advisory Committee for the Oregon Medical Board and is a consultant for legal acupuncture cases. Barbara is a faculty preceptor with the Helms Medical Institute, which formally educates physicians in medical acupuncture. She is also the founder of the Third Opinion MD organization, website, and podcast, and is master certified in medical qigong from the Ling Gui lineage.
