Kiiko Matsumoto
Kiiko Matsumoto, LAc, is a world-renowned acupuncturist and teacher, best known for her ability to integrate the work of Japanese masters such as Master Nagano, Master Kawai, and Dr. Manaka into a coherent and clinically effective style. She is co-director of the KINKO Psychiatric Hospital in Yokohama City, Japan, researching and treating depression using Master […]
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 […]
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. […]
Barbara de la Torre
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 medicine for decades: her mother was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Bomzon
David Bomzon is a therapist and the leading authority in Israel for rehabilitative acupuncture who specializes in classical Chinese medicine and YNSA. David is the founder of the Pnima Center in Haifa, Israel, which is devoted to the practice of complementary medicine in an integrative manner, and in which patients are encouraged to supplement the benefits […]