Jeannette Hoyt
CCAM Research Partners, USA
Jeannette Hoyt is Director, Chicago Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CCAM) Research Partners. She served as a Stakeholder Reviewer, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Cycles 3, 4, and 5. Jeannette was one of the founding members of the Dry Needling Is Acupuncture (DNIA) Task Force and is past chair of the Legislative Committee, AAAOM. Finishing her acupuncture and Oriental Medicine course work and sharing AOM clinical hours in Chicago and Salt Lake City, Jeannette decided to change educational paths and received her Master in Public Health at Chicago State University, 2019. While doing so, Jeannette researched and wrote Acupuncture, Dry Needling and Intramuscular Manual Therapy: Understanding Acupuncture’s Therapeutic Role in America.
In collaboration with Dr. Alan Uretz, past Dean of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Midwest College of Oriental Medicine, Chicago, Jeannette co-wrote Eight Principle/Five Phase Treatment Strategy and Acupuncture Clinical Studies. Jeannette’s published articles on AOM include “Traditional and Complementary Medicine: Development of Global Policies Governing T&CM from 2002 to the Present” (Oriental Medicine Journal, Summer, 2015), “Acupuncture and its Place in Integrative Healthcare Practice: The Need to Move from Modality to Profession” (Acupuncture Today (Vol. 16:2, 2015) and “HIV/AIDS Treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture (Oriental Medicine Journal, Summer 2017).
As a member of the American Public Health Association: Integrative, Complementary, and Traditional Health Practices section, Hoyt presented at the annual 2015 APHA conference on “Apitherapy: An overview of bee products for wound healing including clinical care guidelines.” Jeannette also presented at DePaul University, Chicago, Health Equity & Social Justice Conference in 2018 (Health in America’s Immigrant Populations: Examining How Policy Affects Communities) and 2019 (Examining One Year of Murders in Chicago’s South Shore Neighborhood). Jeannette served on the Education Equity Team (2015), Chicago Department of Public Health, and is presently a teacher in the Language Arts Healthcare Bridge program at City Colleges of Chicago. Jeannette’s newest collaborative venture is Chicago Institute for Asian Medicine (CIAM).
