Photos from my PhD Thesis Defense at the Jinan University School of Medicine, in Guangzhou

After a long three years of research and traveling around the country to meet key experts. And after many hours of handling rare documents and forgotten manuscripts. And after many sleepless nights trying to make sense about how disease traveled during the three major pandemics of the ancient times. And after countless seminars and communications with specialists on ancient epidemiology, and Silk Road / Belt and Road Studies. And while simultaneously working on at least 3 official textbooks and several research committees, I finally completed my PhD in Medicine.

I wrote my research diatribe at the Medical School of the Jinan University in Guangzhou. My thesis supervisor was Prof. Chen Li-guo, a famous exponent of Chinese Integrative Medicine (alongside the now retired Chen Keji). Prof. Chen Li-guo is also an important figure in the TCM world, being one of the top specialists in Huang Di Nei Jing and Jing Fang studies.

My research thesis picks up from my previous work on tongue diagnosis in historical epidemics, and explores the transmission of Chinese clinical information to Europe through the Jesuit fathers of Macau and Guangzhou. Two SCI articles from the contents of my thesis have already been accepted in the Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, and a third one is prepared for the Journal of Integrative Medicine. Hopefully they will all become available through PubMed soon.

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