Bill Helm

Helm is the director and lead instructor at the Taoist Sanctuary of San Diego and the former department chair of the massage and bodywork program at Pacific College of Health and Science. He has been studying Chinese martial and healing arts since 1965, specializing in taijiquan, tui na, qigong, and herbal medicine. Helm is a […]

Claudia Citkovitz

Dr. Claudia Citkovitz has directed the inpatient acupuncture service at NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn since 2004, where she and her team provide postgraduate instruction in inpatient care. Her PhD study on acupuncture during stroke rehabilitation was the first in the U.S., as was her 2006 study of acupuncture during birth. Claudia teaches and practices acupuncture […]

John Chen

Dr. John Chen, PhD, OMD, LAc, is a recognized authority on Chinese herbal medicine and Western pharmacology. Holding doctoral degrees from both USC School of Pharmacy and South Baylo University, he currently teaches at USC and other universities of traditional Chinese medicine. Chen actively participates in education and research, and lectures widely at conferences at […]

John Howard

  John Howard is a licensed acupuncturist who started his career in Western medicine. He trained & served with the U.S. Marine Corps, as a Combat Medic & a certified EMT. He was chosen to attend the Army’s Delta Special Operations School of Medicine to become a Corpsman and the Uniformed Services University of Health […]

Mazin Al-Khafaji

Mazin Al-Khafaji, Doctor of Chinese Medicine (Shanghai, China); FRCHM. Mazin Al-Khafaji is recognized worldwide as the Western world authority on Dermatology related disorders in Chinese Medicine. He graduated as Doctor of Chinese Medicine from the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1987. Since then, he has been in full time practice entirely devoted to three main […]

Yair Maimon

Yair Maimon is an internationally renowned figure in the field of Integrative and Chinese Medicine with over 30 years of clinical, academic, and research experience in the United States, Europe, China and Israel. He is the president of the ETCMA -European TCM Association, which includes Chinese medicine associations from 24 countries. Dr. Maimon, formally the […]