This year's speakers include:

Joyce K. Anastasi, PhD, RN, FAAN, LAc
Director, Center for AIDS Research
Director, Integrative Therapies in Primary Care Subspecialty Program
Columbia University School of Nursing
New York, NY
Dr. Joyce Anastasi is the Helen F. Pettit Professor of Clinical Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing, and Director of both the Center for AIDS Research and the Integrative Therapies in Primary Care Subspecialty Program. She also maintains a private acupuncture practice. Dr. Anastasi received her degree in Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture from the New York College of Wholistic Health, Education and Research. She holds a PhD in Nursing from Adelphi University as well as an MA in Nursing from New York University. Dr. Anastasi has written several articles on symptom management and CAM therapies in HIV/AIDS and has been awarded federal funding from the NIH and HRSA to conduct research on symptom management for persons with HIV/AIDS and graduate education program sin the areas of HIV/AIDS and CAM. She was appointed to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Committee on the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public. Dr. Anastasi was recently awarded the Excellence in Research Award from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and the 2003 New York State Distinguished Researcher Award.

Frances L. Brisbane, PhD
Dean, School of Social Welfare
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY
Dr. Frances L. Brisbane is professor and dean at the School of Social Welfare, State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is also dean of the Black Alcoholism and Addictions Institute and the National Black Alcoholism and Addictions Council in Washington, D.C. She is co-founder of Counseling and Treating People of Colour: An International Perspective, a conference that discusses health, mental health, substance abuse, AIDS, violence, and education across cultural lines. Dr. Brisbane is also the creator of the 100% Drug Free Clubs, which operates internationally as a model primary prevention program. She has also developed a model training program, Overcoming Compassion Fatigue, for professionals in human services who deal with challenging social-service problems ranging from abandonment to end-of-life issues.

Marc Brodsky, MD
UCLA Center for East-West Medicine
Department of Medicine
The David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA
Marc Brodsky, MD, is board-certified in family medicine. He is interested in incorporating a new East/West paradigm in solving challenging problems for patients in the primary care setting. He has been a teacher in primary care and is currently working with the UCLA medical school leadership to help introduce this paradigm into the core medical school curriculum.

Yemeng Chen, LAc, FICAE
Academic Dean, New York Institute of Chinese Medicine
Mineola, NY
A graduate of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dr. Yemeng Chen has directed the Medical and Health Care Department of Shanghai International Health Center as well as the Acupuncture Department of Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical University. He is currently academic dean of the New York Institute of Chinese Medicine and editor-in-chief of American Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine . He is also serving a five-year term as a member of the New York State Board of Acupuncture.

Effie Chow, PhD, RN, LAc
President, East-West Academy of Healing Arts
Member, White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
San Francisco, CA
Dr. Effie Poy Yew Chow has been working to integrate traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine for more than thirty years. In 1973, she founded San Francisco's East West Academy of Healing Arts [http://www.eastwestqi.com/]. In 1988, the Qigong Institute was established within EWAHA to promote research and clinical work in medical Qigong. Dr. Chow received her formal training in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada, and the United States. She is an internationally recognized Qigong master. Active in the fields of alternative and ethno-medicines, she is an appointed member of the White House Commission for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Dr. Chow is the co-author, with Charles T. McGee, MD, of Miracle Healing From China: QIGONG.

Misha Cohen, OMD, LAc
Director, Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine
Quan Yin Healing Arts Center
San Francisco, CA
Misha Ruth Cohen, doctor of Oriental medicine, has been in practice for nearly twenty-five years and is the founder and director of research and education of Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, as well as director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine [http://www.docmisha.com/] in San Francisco. She is currently a research associate at the University of California San Francisco, Institute for Health and Aging.

David L. Felten, MD, PhD
Dean, School of Graduate Medical Education
Seton Hall University
South Orange, NJ
Dr. David L. Felten is a neuroscientist who has helped to establish the field of psychoneuroimmunology and provide some of the mechanistic foundations for the physiological understanding of complementary and integrative medicine. He is the founding executive director of the Susan Samueli Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and a professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine. Dr. Felten is a recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship and two 10-year MERIT awards from two separate institutes (Aging and Mental Health) at the National Institutes of Health. He is co-editor of the definitive scholarly text in this field, Psychoneuroimmunology , and was a co-founder and editor of the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity.

Grace Ge Gabriel
Deputy Director, Wildlife and Habitat Program
International Fund for Animal Welfare
Yarmouth Port, MA
Grace Ge Gabriel is the Deputy Director for the Wildlife and Habitat Program at the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Born and raised in China, Grace Ge Gabriel received training in journalism in China and in the United States. Before her career in conservation and animal welfare, she worked as a television producer in both China and the US. She is fluent in both mandarin Chinese and English. She joined IFAW in 1997 as the China Country Director. In this capacity, she established the IFAW China office in Beijing, initiated and managed an array of conservation and animal welfare campaigns and programs. As the only international animal welfare organization based in mainland China, IFAW works to practice, interpret and communicate the animal welfare concept in the local context by engaging in locally meaningful projects. Through wildlife protection projects like the Tibetan antelope, Asian elephant habitat and the Asiatic black bear, IFAW China provides strategic support to IFAW's mission of reducing commercial exploitation of wildlife, preserving wildlife habitat and ending cruelty to animals.

Mitchell L. Gaynor, MD
Conference Co-Chair
Clinical Assistant Professor Weill Medical College, Cornell University
Founder and President, Gaynor Integrative Oncology
New York, NY
Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor is a board-certified oncologist, hematologist, internist, and medical director of the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College in New York City. He has served as a member of the Executive Review Panel at the Department of Defense, Alternative Medicine for Breast Cancer section. He is also a member of the medical board of advisors for the Sass Foundation of Medical Research. Dr. Gaynor did his postdoctoral research in the molecular biology of nutrient-gene interactions at Rockefeller University. He is the author of three books: Healing Essence: A Cancer Doctor's Practical Program for Hope and Recovery (Kodansha); Dr. Gaynor's Cancer Prevention Program (Kensington Publishing Corporation); and The Healing Power of Sound: Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice and Music (Shambhala).

Brock Haines, Lic Ac.
Clinical Director, AIDS Care Project/Pathways to Complementary Medicine
Boston, MA
Brock Haines has been a Licensed Acupuncturist since 1987. He holds licenses in both California and Massachusetts. Mr. Haines' interests have been the integration of TCM into both Traditional healthcare settings and into public health. As early as 1990, Mr. Haines joined with physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists and therapists in an integrative approach to total health at Health Care at Las Aves in Montecito, California. Mr. Haines became the Chief Acupuncturist at Recovery Point in Santa Maria, California and subsequently Executive Director. Recovery Point accomplished groundbreaking work in addiction by the use of acupuncture and Chinese herbs in outpatient, inpatient and residential settings. They developed one of the earliest drug courts in the country and provided a model for numerous programs on the West Coast. Mr. Haines became a primary acupuncturist for the Federal Drug Court Program that started in four sites in the United States. In 2002, Mr. Haines became the Clinical Director of Pathways to Complementary Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Pathways operates one of the largest public health complementary medical clinics in the U.S. Pathways directs the AIDS Care Project of Boston that provides over 9,000 acupuncture treatments and herbal consultations free of charge to residents of Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.

Leon Hammer, MD
Chairman, Governing Board
Dragon Rises School of Oriental Medicine
Gainesville, FL
Dr. Leon Hammer is a clinician, teacher, and writer. Recently he assumed leadership of the governing board of the Dragon Rises School of Oriental Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. He is a graduate of Cornell University, Cornell Medical College and the William A. White Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry. He is the well-known author of Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies: Psychology and Chinese Medicine – a study of the relationship between Chinese medicine and Western psychology. His most recently published book is Chinese Pulse Diagnosis: A Contemporary Approach (Eastland Press). He is currently working on a sequel to Dragon Rises , which will focus on diagnosis and treatment.

Richard Harris, PhD
Research Investigator
University of Michigan, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
University of Michigan, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Program
Ann Arbor, MI
Richard Harris received his PhD in molecular biology in 1997 from University of California, Berkeley and has recently received a certificate of diploma in TCM Acupuncture from the Maryland Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine. His interests have been in the integration of TCM acupuncture with Western clinical pain research. In 2002, Dr. Harris joined the University of Michigan Internal Medicine department as a junior faculty in the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Program under Dr. Daniel Clauw. Dr. Harris obtained knowledge of the electrical properties of nerve cells through his doctoral thesis on potassium ion channels and his postdoctoral work on cultured neurons. His long-range research goal is to explain the analgesic properties of acupuncture through neurophsyiologic mechanisms.

Craig Hoover
Deputy Director, TRAFFIC North America
Washington, DC
Craig Hoover is the Deputy Director of TRAFFIC North America. Prior to joining TRAFFIC in 1996, he worked for four years as a Wildlife Inspector with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, enforcing state, federal and foreign laws relating to the international wildlife trade. Mr. Hoover has a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan as well as a Juris Doctorate degree from Loyola Law School. In his current position, he is responsible for conducting or overseeing wildlife trade studies throughout North America, working with governments to improve regulation and management of wildlife trade, and ensuring that wildlife trade is conducted in a sustainable and legal manner.

Ka-Kit Hui, MD, FACP
Professor, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
Director, UCLA Center for East-West Medicine
Los Angeles, CA
Ka-Kit Hui, MD is a professor of Clinical Medicine in the UCLA Department of Medicine, director of the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine, and co-director of the UCLA Center for Integrative Medicine. He is a clinician, educator and researcher whose broad-based knowledge of comprehensive medical care stems from multiple areas of specialization, including: internal medicine, clinical pharmacology, geriatrics, traditional Chinese medicine, and integrative medicine. His basic and clinical investigations have provided him with unique insights into the concepts of regulation, homeostasis, and balance. The Center for East-West Medicine, founded in 1993, has a dynamic clinical program with more than 5,000 patient visits, with the majority referred by more than 100 UCLA physicians. Dr. Hui and his staff have developed expertise in blending traditional Chinese Medicine with Western biomedicine to create a unique healthcare paradigm. Dr. Hui's current research interests lie in acupuncture and cardiovascular regulation; the correlation between brain MRI and Chinese medical diagnostic systems in hypertension; the development of educational programs in integrative medicine that include outcome evaluation, drug discovery - particularly from plant-based products, and optimization of clinical approaches to improving quality of life for patients with chronic pain or cancer.

Kathleen Hui, MD
Assistant Neuroscientist
Athinoula Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Department of Radiology
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, MA
Dr. Kathleen Hui received her medical degree from the University of Michigan and has served as physician-scientist at the Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Harvard Medical School. Recently, Dr. Hui has been working closely with Dr. Kenneth Kwong and scientists at MGH-NMR Center, Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School to investigate the central effects of acupuncture on humans and in animal models with fMRI. It is postulated that the widely connected and dopamine-rich cortico-limbic-subcortical network may constitute an important pathway of acupuncture action.

TRAFFIC North America is part of the worldwide TRAFFIC Network, with staff on six continents and in more than 20 countries. TRAFFIC is the joint wildlife trade monitoring program of World Wildlife Fund and IUCN-The World Conservation Union. TRAFFIC aims to help ensure that wildlife trade is conducted at sustainable levels and in accordance with domestic and international laws and agreements.

Lonny Jarrett, MS, MAc, FNCAAOM
Stockbridge, MA
Mr. Lonny Jarrett has been active in the field of Chinese medicine since 1980, teaching, lecturing, and publishing in leading professional journals. He holds master's degrees in both acupuncture and neurobiology. Mr. Jarrett is the author of Nourishing Destiny: The Inner Tradition of Chinese Medicine and moderates a newsgroup on Chinese medicine at Nourishing-destiny@yahoogroups.com. He maintains a full-time acupuncture and herbal medicine practice in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Hong Jin, MD (PR China), LAc
Dean of Faculty
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
Portland, OR
Dr. Hong Jin received her medical degree from Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, People's Republic of China, in 1985. After graduating, she taught acupuncture and Chinese Medicine at Nanjing International Acupuncture Training Center, World Health Organization Collaborative Center on Traditional Medicine for six years. Since 1992, she has been teaching and lecturing in the United States on acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. She joined Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) as a professor and clinic supervisor in 1993.  She is currently the dean of faculty at OCOM, and has her faculty practice in the College's clinic in addition to teaching. Dr. Jin specializes in women's health and frequently works in collaboration with medical doctors in treating women's health issues. In addition, she now serves as a co-investigator for two research projects related to women's health issues that are funded by NIH. One of them is Traditional Chinese Medicine Compared to Hormone Therapy for Endometriosis-Related Pelvic Pain.s

Michael Johnson, MD
Psychiatrist, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Boston, MA
Dr. Michael Johnson is a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a Harvard Macy Scholar for 2003. As staff psychiatrist with Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston, he is the principal psychiatric consultant to the Pain Program, where he works with TCM practitioners. He has been a student of breath meditation for 20 years. Dr. Johnson also serves as medical liaison for TCM World newspaper.

Lixing Lao, MD, PhD, LAc
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research
Center for Integrative Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Lixing Lao, PhD, CMD (China), L.Ac, is an associate professor of the Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM), University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), School of Medicine. Dr. Lao graduated from the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1983 after 5 years training in acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and Western Medicine. He completed his PhD in physiology at the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1992. Dr. Lao has practiced acupuncture and Chinese medicine for more than 20 years. He has been actively involved in patient care, teaching and research. He is currently the Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Program in CIM. Lao served as a Board member on the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture which regulates acupuncture licensing. He was recently appointed as a guest professor in the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.As a principal investigator or co-investigator, Dr. Lao has been awarded grants from the NIH and the U. S. Department of Defense to conduct research on acupuncture and alternative medicine. He has many publications and has been invited to give presentations at many national and international conferences/symposia including NIH Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture in 1997, and White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy in 2001. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board on the Journal of Alternative Therapies , the International Journal of Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is also a board member of the Society for Acupuncture Research , and PDQ Cancer CAM Editorial Board, National Cancer Institute, NIH. Dr. Lao has a laboratory to conduct basic science study on an inflammation induced hyperalgesia animal models to explore the mechanism of anti-hyperalgesic and anti-inflammation effect of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.

Jan J. Li, MD, MPH, LAc
Physical Medicine Department
South California Permanente Medical Group
Downey, CA
Dr. Jan J. Li received her MD from at the Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hangzhou, China in 1984. She came to the United States in 1991 and received a MPH from Loma Linda University a her California Acupuncture license in soon after. She has been practicing and teaching acupuncture since then. She earned her medical license in California in 2000 and did her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Wisconsin from 1998 to 2002. Dr. Li's work is currently focused in the chronic pain clinic at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group's Physical Medicine Department.

Xiu-Min Li, MD
Organizing Committee Chair
Assistant Research Professor, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
Dr. Xiu-Min Li is assistant professor of pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology, at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. She obtained her MD in China in 1983 from Henan School of Chinese Medicine. She earned a master's degree in medicine specializing in clinical pediatric-immunology research in integrative Western and traditional Chinese medicine from the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She has also served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Asthma and Allergy Center.

Yong Ming Li, MD, PhD
Attending Physician
Warren Hospital, NJ
Executive Director, Traditional Chinese Medicine Association
New York, NY
Dr. Yong Ming Li is a licensed physician and board-certified pathologist. A lecturer on traditional Chinese medicine and a researcher in cancer and herbal medicine, Dr. Li earned a BM from Liaoning College of TCM, a master's of science from Illinois State University, and a PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Li was trained in pathology and dermatopathology in the U.S., and is a certified acupuncturist and herbalist. He has published more than 90 papers and abstracts in Nature Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, PNAS, Cancer Research, and other journals.

Nan Lu, OMD
Founding Director and President, Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation
New York, NY
Dr. Nan Lu is founding director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation and its sister organization, the American Taoist Healing Center. He is a classically trained doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and a New York State-licensed acupuncturist. Dr. Lu holds a doctorate in traditional Chinese medicine from Hubei College of TCM, Hubei, China, and a master of science degree from City University of New York. Dr. Lu is advisor to the Rosenthal Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He is also a board advisor to the Hypoglycemia Support Foundation and to the National Association of Transpersonal Psychology. He recently completed a series of books for HarperCollins, which includes Traditional Chinese Medicine—A Woman's Guide to Healing from Breast Cancer. He is also founder and publisher of the nationally distributed newspaper Traditional Chinese Medicine World .

John Meehan
Resident Agent in Charge, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Elizabeth, NJ
Resident Agent in Charge John Meehan has managed the Fish and Wildlife Service's law enforcement operations in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania since 1995. His responsibilities include directing the agency's wildlife inspection program at the international airport and ocean port in Newark, NJ. Meehan joined the agency in 1976 as one of the first wildlife inspectors assigned to monitor U.S. wildlife trade. He became a special agent in 1977 and served as a field investigator in Harrisburg, PA (1977-80); Newark, NJ (1980-82); and New York City (1982-1995). He holds a B.A. in criminal justice and sociology from Long Island University.

Weiping Mei, MD (PR China), LAc, DiplAc & CH (NCCAOM)
Staff Acupuncturist
UCLA Center for East-West Medicine
Department of Medicine
The David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA
Weiping Mei received her medical degree from Shanghai Medical University (now the medical school of Fudan University), People's Republic of China. She worked as a researcher at UCSF medical school, Roche, and Beckman in various capacities. She is currently a licensed acupuncturist in California and has been working closely with Dr. Ka-Kit Hui and other doctors at the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine in developing a clinical and research program in women's health as well as educational programs in integrative East/West medicine for health professionals.

Mehmet C. Oz, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Director, Cardiovascular Institute
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
New York, NY
Dr. Oz is Vice-Chair of Surgery and Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and is a Founder and Director of the Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Medical Center. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and health care policy. He has authored over 350 original publications, book chapters, abstracts, and books and has received several patents. Dr. Oz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1982) and obtained a joint MD and MBA (1986) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. He is the recipient of numerous awards including election as a Global Leaders of Tomorrow (1999) by the World Economic Forum, the prestigious American Association for  Thoracic Surgery Robert E. Gross Research Scholarship (1994-6), an honorary doctorate from Istanbul University,  the Blakemore Research Awards (1988, 89, 90, 91) from the College of Physician & Surgeon, Columbia University, the research award from the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (1991), the clinical research award and grant from the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (1993). Dr. Oz has been featured in a wide range of print and television media, including The New York Times Magazine , Fortune , Life , Self , Good Housekeeping , and the NBC evening news with Tom Brokaw, ABC evening news with Peter Jennings, and CBS evening news with Dan Rather, and 60 minutes. He was also the subject of a CNN “Movers” series documentary.

Henry S. Sacks, MD
Scientific Review Committee Chair
Clinical Director, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
Dr. Henry S. Sacks is professor of community and preventive medicine, medicine, and biomathematical sciences, and director of the Thomas C. Chalmers Clinical Trials Unit at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is also co-director for clinical research of Mount Sinai's CAM Center and is a recipient of a Leadership Award in Complementary and Alternative Medicine from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Ellen Schaplowsky
Conference Director
Vice President, Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation
New York, NY
Ms. Ellen Schaplowsky is vice president of TCM World Foundation, executive editor of TCM World , and co-author, with Dr. Nan Lu, of three books on TCM published  by HarperCollins. She is also executive vice  president and director of training at the public relations firm Ruder Finn, Inc., where she founded the Marketing for the Environment Group, and for 13 years ran America's largest cleanup and recycling program with more than one million volunteers annually. She is a founding member of the Sustainable Development Initiative at Columbia Business School, has served as a columnist for Earth Times , and has lectured extensively on environmental communications issues.

Rosa N. Schnyer, LAc
Research Associate
Osher Institute at Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Rosa N. Schnyer is an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist and the author of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Depression: A Manual for Research and Clinical Practice , and Curing Depression with Chinese Medicine . Ms. Schnyer is one of the leading acupuncture researchers funded by NIH and has conducted landmark studies in acupuncture. She is a research associate at the Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School, and a consultant at Stanford University and the University of Arizona. Schnyer began her Asian medicine education in Shiatsu and graduated from the Tri-State Institute in 1987; she currently maintains a private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. She is former advisor to the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Ms Schnyer is a member of the board of directors of the Society for Acupuncture Research and a faculty member at the New England School of Acupuncture.

Xiao Tian Shen, MD, LAc, MPH
Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin, Texas
Austin, TX
Xiao Tian Shen L.Ac, MD (China), MPH, earned his first degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Chengdu TCM University and his second degree in Public Health at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Aside from teaching acupuncture and herbal medicine at two colleges in China, he is also a doctor of TCM at the Teaching Hospital of CCECK, a contributor of professional journals and a participant of several research projects. He's a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in both China and the U.S. and he currently serves as the Dean of Clinic Training at the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin, Texas.

Michael O. Smith, MD
Director, Substance Abuse
Lincoln Recovery Center
Lincoln Hospital
Bronx, NY
Michael O. Smith, MS is a psychiatrist, acupuncturist addiction specialist and public health planner. He has been director of Lincoln Hospital Substance Abuse Division since 1974. He is internationally known for developing the use of acupuncture in the field of chemical dependency. More than 300 treatment programs worldwide use the Lincoln Hospital model. As chairperson of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA), Dr. Smith provided consultation to a variety of city, county, state, federal and UN agencies in more than 100 settings. He has been a principal co-investigator on research studies conducted by the NY State Department of Health, Columbia University, and private research institutions. Beside his work with acupuncture and substance abuse, Dr. Smith is known for expertise in clinical toxicology, herbology, community psychiatry, medical information systems, among other areas. His five-year study on the use of Chinese medicine in the treatment of AIDS has been published in many countries. Dr. Smith has received the Samuel and May Rudin Community Service Award from Mayor Dinkins and has been named Acupuncturist of the Yeat by AAOM. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, Dr. Smith is an assistant professor at NY Medical College and is certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

Joyce Smith, RN, BSN, BA, HNATM, Diplomate ABT
The Center for Health and Healing,
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ
Joyce Smith, RN, BSN, BA, HNATM, Diplomate ABT has been a registered nurse at Hackensack University Medical Center since 1991. She earned a BA in psychology from Montlair State University in 1982. In 1989, she graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Nursing. While working as a Psychiatric nurse for nine years, she became interested in studying Holistic Nursing and seeking a more integrative approach to patient care. Ms. Smith attended New York College for Health Professionals in Syosset, New York. There she earned a certificate in Holistic Nursing with a specialty in Eastern Nutrition and Amma Therapeutic Massage, a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine bodywork. She recently attained her Diplomate in Asian Bodywork Therapy from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Joyce now practices at the Center for Health and Healing, Hackensack University Medical Center, where she is able to integrate traditional Western and Eastern therapies in patient care.

Louis Evan Teichholz, MD
Chief of the Division of Cardiology
Medical Director of Cardiac Services
Medical Director, Complementary Medical Program
The Center for Health and Healing, Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ
Dr. Louis Evan Teichholz received his AB degree magna cum laude from Harvard College and his MD degree cum laude from Harvard Medical School. He completed his fellowship training in housestaff and cardiology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. He then served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Public Health Service and a staff associate at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School before going to Mount Sinai Medical Center as the associate chief of cardiology. During his tenure there, he became professor of medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, associate director of the Cardiovascular Institute, and vice-chairman of medicine. In 1996, he began his tenure at Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) as the chief of cardiology and medical director of cardiac services. Dr. Teichholz is also HUMC medical director of the Complementary Medicine Program, The Center for Health and Healing, and BEYOND, the day spa at the medical center.

Haihe Tian, AP, PhD, MD (China)
Professor, Chinese Acupuncture and Herbs Center
Largo, FL
Dr. Tian began his medical and acupuncture training in 1982. He studied with Dr. Dong Jian Hua, one of the most famous TCM doctors in China, for 11 years and received his BS, MS, and PhD from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology. After several years practicing at the TCM University Hospital in Beijing, he moved to Tampa bay, Florida where he has been teaching and practicing since 1997. Dr. Tian has served as an AAOM board member, as well as Academic Dean, Clinical Director, and Chairperson of the doctoral-developing program of a Chinese medicine school. He has authored and co-authored over 60 papers and 40 books and lectures frequently at the local and national level. He is currently president of the American Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and director of the Chinese Acupuncture and Herbs Center in Florida.  

Carla Wilson, LAc, DiplAc & CH (NCCAOM)
Executive Director, Quan Ying Healing Arts Center
President, Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Alliance
San Francisco, CA
Carla Wilson graduated from the AmerAsian Institute of Oriental Medicine of Hawaii in 1985 and studied at the Helilong Jian School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the People's Republic of China in 1990. She has been practicing acupuncture and herbal medicine for 18 years. Quan Yin Healing Arts Center (Quan Yin) is a nonprofit, alternative medical clinic that has treated thousands of HIV positive people since 1984. Quan Yin's mission is "to provide the best healthcare possible, regardless of ability to pay and social status." Staff include a Western medical doctor (MD), a registered nurse (RN), a doctor of Oriental medicine (OMD), an acupuncture clinical director, ten licensed acupuncturists (LAc), eight massage therapists, a yoga and Qi Gong (a specialized exercise program) instructor. All Chinese medicine practitioners have completed HIV and HCV certification course that provides them with information about the most up-to-date Western and Eastern methods of treating HIV disease. Currently, Quan Yin provides treatment to about 300 people a week. About 150 are in the HIV program, and approximately 23% of these are HIV positive women. Quan Yin offers other specialty programs related to chronic viral hepatitis, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), stress reduction and smoking cessation. Care is provided in Spanish and English.

Ann Michelle Wry, MD, Dpl
Attending Physician, Internal Medicine
Donna A. Sanzari Women's Health Center
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ
Dr. Wry is attending physician, Internal Medicine, at Hackensack University Medical Center, where she also has a hospital-affiliated private practice at the Donna A. Sanzari Women's Health Services, Education, Research and Resource Center. Her postdoctoral training includes an internal-medicine internship and residency at the State University of New York and an internal-medicine residency at the University of Miami, Jackson, Memorial Hospital in Miami. Dr. Wry has worked on women's health issues and has helped support patient education about traditional Chinese medicine.

Ruan-Jin Zhao, OMD, PhD
President, The Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
Dr. Ruan-Jin Zhao was born in 1963 in Henan Province, China. He has been engaged in practicing, teaching, and researching traditional Chinese medicine with a focus on hepatic disease, viral disease and cancer for more than thirty years. After graduating from Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1984, he studied with the renowned professor Du Zhou Liu at the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology, where he earned his master's degree in medical science. Under the tutelage of Professor Ben Chang En, he began studying cellular biology and in 1990 earned his PhD in Chinese medicine and cellular biology. After teaching cellular biology at Beijing University of TCM & P, he immigrated to the United States and has been practicing traditional Chinese medicine in Sarasota, Florida where he is the president of the Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Inc. and a member of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

Guili Zheng, MD, PhD
Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Austin, TX
Dr. Zheng earned his Ph.D. in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology in 1998. He then served as associate professor, associate director at the Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicin and taught pharmacology of Chinese Medicine formula, Chinese Medical Herbology and basic theory of Chinese Medicine at the undergraduate, graduate and overseas-student levels. He also served as academic supervisor of graduate students in the Shandong University of TCM affiliated hospital. He has been teaching at the Texas College of Traditional Chinese Medicine since 2001.