Navigating through the sea of medicine

In 2019, I left China after a long tenure of 17 years, to accept a position of Researcher, Faculty and Clinic Supervisor at the  Foundation for PIHMA Research and Education   in Phoenix, AZ. My work there also involved kickstarting PIHMA’s   Entry Level  “Doctoral Degree” (DACM), and establish an Integrative Medicine clinic shift that would assist students to reach an elementary understanding of Integrative Medicine, as per accreditation standards.   I soon went on to develop PIHMA’s  “Integrative Clinical Diagnosis”  and  “Integrative Case Management”  classes, and I started teaching from my many years of experience in China.    At the same time - in 2019 - together with the then Clinic Dean, we contacted St Vincent de Paul, to establish a Chinese Integrative Medicine clinical shift.   The shift originally run from late 2019 until the pandemic lockdown, and it was re-established again in the early 2021.    At SVdP, we put in practice all the information I taught in my classes.  In the

The new semester is upon us, and today I am teaching my Integrative Clinical Medicine students the International Standard Scalp Acupuncture system. This is the first time I teach a class in person since the beginning of the pandemic, and we took a few photos to commemorate the day.    At the SVdP hospital, we often treat people suffering from brain injuries, stroke and cerebrovascular disease, disorders of the cranial and spinal nerves, fibromyalgia, headaches, and even long-Covid and PTSD.    These are diseases that respond really well to scalp acupuncture. In this class I teach the International Standard version, which was developed in the 1970’s and ‘80’s. This is the textbook standard, and perhaps one of the most commonly used TCM medical modalities for neurological diseases.