Barbara de la Torre
Barbara de la Torre, MD, FAAMA Barbara de la Torre is a board-certified family medicine physician 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 physician who has had a foot in both Eastern and Western […]
Yueying Li
Dr. Yueying Li is a licensed acupuncturist, with a specialization in dermatology, and over 36 years of experience in teaching and practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treating patients with a variety of illnesses including at hospitals as a TCM Internal Medicine Specialist. Dr. Li is recognized as an expert in dermatology, Acupuncture Facial Rejuvenation, Women’s […]
Neil Theise
Neil Theise, MD is a liver pathologist professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an attending physician at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center. Through his scientific research, he has been a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium. Dr. Theise’s studies in complexity […]
Lisa Taylor-Swanson
Lisa Taylor-Swanson, PhD, LAc, is a dedicated women’s health researcher and licensed acupuncturist who is passionately committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in healthcare for midlife women. As an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing (CON) at the University of Utah (UU), she works to improve women’s health during the menopausal transition, ensuring […]
David M. Hashemipour
Dr. David M. Hashemipour has practiced in a variety of settings including in a hospital Emergency Room in China. He was selected to work as an integrative medicine doctor in the Olympic Village during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and replicated similar roles during the 2010 Asian Games and internationally in sports competitions, applying tui […]
Kenneth Khensu Carter
Dr. Kenneth “Khensu” Carter is the current President of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) with many years as a NADA Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist (ADS) and then a NADA Registered Trainer. He began his comprehensive acupuncture education–as a rising 3rd-year medical student in 1982 at Lincoln Detox under the tutelage of Mr. Carlos Alverez, Mr. […]
Andrew Nugent-Head
Andrew Nugent-Head, founder and president of the Association for Traditional Studies, moved to China in 1986 to study Chinese medicine, internal cultivation practices, and martial arts. He was privileged to learn in a traditional manner from the last generation of practitioners born and educated prior to the arrival of communism in 1949, one of the […]
Avi Amir
Avi Amir is a Chinese and Japanese medicine and medical massage therapist who specializes in pain management and neuroacupuncture. Since Avi was a medical massage therapist before becoming an acupuncturist, Avi has acquired considerable knowledge on the human anatomy and physiology which has made him an authority on pain management in Israel. After graduating as […]
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 […]
Brandon Hoffman
Brandon Hoffman is the Market Development Executive for American Acupuncture Council. Coming from a family of Allied Health professionals, he has been exposed to acupuncture and chiropractic throughout his life. Since joining the organization full-time in 2015, Hoffman has lectured on risk avoidance, practice management, and professional ethics alongside Marilyn Allen and Dr. Nell Smircina, […]