program schedule

Keynote Speaker

Russell Jaffe, Fellow, Health Studies Collegium Foundation, USA

Title: Miasma and Pandemics in TCM: Back to the future to save lives and treasure
Time: 14:30 - 15:15
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biography

Russ Jaffe has more than 40 years of experience contributing to molecular biology and clinical diagnostics.  He pioneered “lymphocyte tests of immune function and hypersensitivity” and is focused on providing functional, predictive tests and procedures designed to improve the precision of both diagnosis and of treatment outcomes.


He received his B.S., MD and Ph.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine, completed residency training in clinical chemistry at the National Institutes of Health and remained on the permanent senior staff before pursuing other interests, including starting the Health Studies Collegium think tank and MAGique BioTherapeutics. He is Founder and Chairman of PERQUE Integrative Health, LLC (PIH, www.PERQUE.com) a company that offers the world scientifically proven, integrative health solutions that speed the transition from sick care to healthful caring. Dr Jaffe serves as Clinical Instructor of Clinical Leadership at the George Washington University School of Medical Sciences.


Dr Jaffe is board certified in Clinical Pathology and in Chemical Pathology and the recipient of the Merck, Sharp & Dohm Excellence in Research Award, the J.D. Lane Award, and the U.S.P.H.S. Meritorious Service Award. Dr Jaffe was honored as an International Scientist of 2003 by the IBC, Oxford, England, UK for his lifetime contributions to clinical medicine, biochemistry, immunology, methodology, and integrative health policy.


Keynote Speaker

Jeannette Hoyt, MPH, CCAM Research Partners, USA

Title: COVID readiness in an AOM practice setting
Time: 15:15 - 16:00
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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).


Speaker

Jun Wang, Jilin Sport University, China

Title: Effects of acupuncture on lower extremity kinematics during drop-jump landing
Time: 16:00 - 16:25
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biography

Ms. Jun Wang graduated from Shanxi Medical University with a major in sports rehabilitation. She used to work as a physiotherapist in the hospital for one year. Now she is studying at Jilin Institute of Physical Education. Her major is sports rehabilitation. I am very interested in acupuncture and published an article in the European Journal of Integrative Medicine in April this year, entitled Immediate Effect of Acupuncture on Performance in the Drop Jump Task: A Single-Group Pretest–Posttest Experimental Study


Speaker

Andrea Greiner, Ray of Light Meridian Therapy™, USA

Title: Energy acupuncture - how to make acupuncture accessible in a pandemic
Time: 16:25 - 16:50
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Dr. Greiner is a very passionate doctor, mother, wife, healer, visionary and leader that currently lives in Canby, Oregon. She graduated from the National University of Natural Medicine and is passionate in teaching each individual they have the profound ability to heal their lives and create a life of their dreams. She has 2 bio kids, Evelyn who is 4 and Sebastion who is 2, and is happily married to her husband. She started her business in 2018 while pregnant to support more people in a setting that was inspiring and supportive of her beliefs that we really can heal our lives and dis-ease. She has created a certification program teaching Ray of Light Meridian Therapy™ to help healers heal from anywhere. There will soon be a book about this wild journey she is on and has discovered in Ray of Light Meridian Therapy™.


Speaker

Marjorie Brook, International Educator/Therapist, USA

Title: The importance of understanding scar tissue
Time: 16:50 - 17:15
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From the very start of her practice as a Massage Therapist, Marjorie Brook recognized the importance of treating scar tissue. As an Advanced AIS practitioner and Certified Personal Trainer, she trained under and assisted Aaron Mattes (pioneer of AIS) across the United States and Canada. Marjorie’s experiences contribute to the perspective that has allowed her to develop The S.T.R.A.I.T. Method™ which features 2 specialized techniques: Scar Tissue Release, and Integrated Therapeutic Stretching™ (ITS). She offers seminars and lectures on her techniques throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Asia.

 

Marjorie founded Brook Seminars Bodywork Education in 2007 with the intention of sharing her knowledge to enable a more satisfying bodywork experience to all who care to learn. Ms. Brook has been a Nationally Certified, NYS Licensed Massage Therapist since 1997. In addition to her commitment to teaching, Marjorie has a private massage therapy practice that caters to both healthy and special needs children and adults.

 

In July of 2011 Marjorie released Flexibility First: A Fitness Approach for Life, two series of stretching manuals. Both series are available as E-books and PDFs at www.flexibilityguides.com. They present the material in an easy user-friendly format. Marjorie’s exclusive S.T.R.A.I.T. Method ™ which she has developed compliments her Integrated Therapeutic Stretching (ITS) ™ programs, manuals and DVDs.

 

Through Brook Seminars, Marjorie teaches her techniques internationally, offering continuing education courses in The S.T.R.A.I.T. Method ™ , Integrated Therapeutic Stretching (ITS)™ and Body Mechanics. As a keynote speaker she evokes her audience to stretching their body and mind as one to reach outside their own limits without boundaries and attain both physical and emotional balance.

Marjorie Brook is an inspiring and passionate communicator, who understands that people learn and process information differently and her programs are tailored to reach across that spectrum.

Marjorie believes that humor and group participation are vital in creating an atmosphere of comfort and she engages her audience to ask questions as well as contribute information. Each program is customized for the group and participants are left with lasting knowledge to live in Balance.

 

Her articles have appeared in, Massage Today, MagaZine, Massage World (UK), American Fitness MagaZine, JoURnal of the AUStralian Traditional Medicine Society;  international forums such as PositiveHealth.com, along with live interviews on several radio podcasts.

 

Marjorie is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork(NCBTMB) as a continuing educational provider. 


Speaker

Steven Bailey, National College of Natural Medicine, USA

Title: When and why energetic medicine falls short or fails
Time: 17:15 - 17:40
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biography

Rev. Dr. Steven Bailey received his naturopathic doctorate from National College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1983. A four year program, Dr. Bailey was certified in midwifery, had two years of study in Homeopathy and Chinese Medicine. As a member of the American Herb Trade Association in the 1970’s he would go on to teach pharmacognosy as well as therapeutic fasting and physiotherapy at NCNM (now NUNM). He received his Reverend doctorate from Emperium College in Portland Oregon in 2009, and was ordained, by a national counsel with the UATBNC, as a Pastor in 2010.

He is the author of numerous books, the three most popular being The Fasting Diet (McGraw Hill), Juice Alive and The Reluctant Healer, SquareOne Publishing. He has lectured nationally and internationally on many subjects and spent 22 years as guest and host on Portland’s KBOO radio. He has served on numerous boards and served as national Speaker of the House of Delegates for the AANP from 2007-2012.


Speaker

Galia Reuveni, University of Wales, UK

Title: Charting a woman's menstrual cycle in its reproductive cyclical phase, fertility diagnosis by BBT (Workshop)
Time: 17:40 - 18:40
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I am an Eternal student of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After attending Chinese medicine schools in England, (International school of Chinese medicine, Northern College of Acupuncture), I earned graduate and postgraduate degrees in Acupuncture, focusing on fertility. An internship in Traditional Chinese Medicine fertility clinic in England steeped me in the reality of a fertility clinic. I have attempted to bring the best of this medicine to a clinical practice in Israel, addressing the health care of fertility patients, where I established my practice as a group practice in the women medical centre in Tel Aviv.

 

I am a founder and Director of the Acupuncture Pregnancy, and Acupuncture IVF Support clinic. My approach in the clinic integrates the theory of two medical systems, Traditional Chinese medicine and modern western medicine. Such an approach has arisen from the desire to meet the needs of my patients in the west, use the medicine and technology of the west but also to benefit from what an ancient but living tradition such as TCM can offer. I have focused on the treatment of infertility with Chinese medicine for 25 years, and have studied with some of Europe's most revered specialists. Out of the wisdom and skill of expert clinicians in infertility clinics in China, and the experience I have gained working with couples in the west and their fertility specialists, I have been able to develop acupuncture treatments appropriate for western patients having difficulty conceiving from a number of different causes.

 

For many years I have worked closely with a team I have carefully chosen to deliver expert care to couples trying to conceive. I have constructed a purpose built manual and series of treatment guidance protocols that are unique to the clinics. I monitored clinic consultations and patient needs on a daily basis.

 

I am a member of the British Acupuncture Council. I have presented at several international conferences and seminars to acupuncturists and IVF specialists doctors.


Speaker

Dave Maybee, Director, Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine, Canada

Title: The Vascular Autonomic Signal (VAS): A pulse-guided assessment tool for finding blockages to healing
Time: 18:40 - 19:05
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biography

Dave Maybee, RMT has been practicing Auricular Medicine since 2006 and has been the lead instructor for the Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine since 2008. He owns a small clinic in Nova Scotia, Canada where he practices Auricular Medicine in combination with Cranial Sacral and Myofascial Release.


Speaker

Sukhwinder Singh, Guru Kirpa Acupuncture and Holistic Care Center, India

Title: Regenerative acupuncture – a step beyond
Time: 19:05 - 19:30
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DR. SUKHWINDER SINGH   is an Acupuncture Therapist and Physiotherapist, practicing acupuncture from last 20 years. He is an International Speaker, Presented his scientific papers in many countries like USA, China AND Pakistan apart from India.


Speaker

James Neilson-Watt, CEO, Practice Mastery, New Zealand

Title: How to grow & scale your healthcare practice in post COVID world
Time: 19:30 - 19:55
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James started his career like most new grads… stuck in a dead-end clinic and hustling to pay the bills… But with relentless drive, he purchased a run-down clinic and tripled it in 3 months purchasing another practice 8 months later, and within 2 years had generated over a million dollars in revenue. Fast forward to today, he has 6 associates in a large multidisciplinary where he is completely hands off, and he now trains over 215 healthcare business owners in 14 countries and 25 different healthcare industries in his premium done-with-you training program ‘Practice Mastery’, which is for practice owners who are serious about creating long-term success and the money, meaning and freedom they deserve


Speaker

Seth Klein, Klein Health, USA

Title: Exhibitor Session
Time: 19:55 - 20:10
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Dr. Seth Klein is a chiropractor serving Coral Springs and the surrounding communities. Our Coral Springs Chiropractor and the rest of the friendly team at Seth Klein DC of Florida are dedicated to chiropractic solutions to target your unique needs, whether you are suffering from back pain, neck pain, headaches, menstrual discomfort or even just plain old muscular tightness and tension. You may need pain relief after suffering an accident, experiencing an injury, or if you have a specific condition such as chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, menstrual discomfort, IBS; even if you just want to improve your overall health, Dr. Klein can help you achieve your wellness goals! Please visit the testimonials page to see what our patients are saying about Dr. Klein and why they are getting Chiropractic treatment

Visit: https://drsethklein.com/


Speaker

Suzy McCleary,, Echuca Family Acupuncture, Australia

Title: Diversify your practice to maximise clinical results during
Time: 14:30 - 14:55
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Suzy McCleary a qualified Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine with 14 years experience in private practice as a Doctor of Chinese Medicine. She also has 12 years clinical nursing experience as a Paediatric Nurse specialising in Intensive Care. Suzy continues to stay up to date incorporating ancient wisdom with modern times. Further studies include becoming a registered GAPS Practitioner, Functional Nutritionist, Shonishin Practitioner as well as completing training as a Baby Shiatsu & Samurai Shiatsu Instructor and Childhood Functional Neurology. When she isn't at work or pounding the keyboard she loves being with her 2 young children and her husband in the outdoors and travelling throughout our beautiful country.


Speaker

Jia-Yu Shen, Jilin Sport University, China

Title: A study on the effects of acupuncture on the endurance of shoulder joint abduction and adduction in females
Time: 14:55 - 15:20
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Ms. Jia-Yu Shen is currently a graduate student of Jilin University of Physical Education. So far, I have published 17 international conferences and 2 SCI papers. I set up an acupuncture club on campus to carry out activities.


Speaker

Ze-Hao Liu, Jilin Sport University, China

Title: Research on chronergy efficacy of acupuncture in shoulder joint muscle explosive force abduction and adduction in female
Time: 15:20 - 15:45
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Ms. Ze-Hao Liu is currently studying in Jilin Institute of Physical Education. During his stay in school, he served as the president of the Physiotherapy and Health Care Association of Jilin Institute of Physical Education. During his tenure, he organized health care knowledge lectures to help students learn professional knowledge and provide certain voluntary diagnosis and treatment services. And organize relevant activities many times to guide students to practice. In his spare time, he went to Inner Mongolia Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to continue his studies. He is a warm, cheerful, hard-working, and conscientious person. He will always face his study and work with full enthusiasm and meticulous spirit. He is sincere, humble, hard-working, and earnest. He believes that he will certainly go further on the academic road.


Speaker

Hao-Ru Yang, Jilin Sport University, China

Title: Effect of acupuncture on the timeliness of muscle explosive force of male’s shoulder joint muscle flexion and extension
Time: 15:45 - 16:10
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Mr. Hao-Ru Yang Currently studying at Jilin Sports University, he has a higher interest in acupuncture and in traditional Chinese medicine. Hope to use acupuncture to treat more patients' diseases and make their lives better.


Speaker

João Eduardo De Araujo, Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo, Brazil

Title: Ear and systemic acupuncture points change the muscle activation and balance of the healthy subjects, assessed by surface electromyography and computerized baropodometry
Time: 16:10 - 16:35
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João Eduardo De Araujo has completed his Ph.D from Ribeirão Preto Philosophy School of the University of São Paulo (USP). Since 2004 he has been Associate Professor in the Health Sciences Department of the Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the USP. He is a Researcher and Supervisor of Rehabilitation and Functional Performance Graduate Program at the University of São Paulo. He concluded the Acupuncture specialization course in 1996. Published more than 40 papers in peer review journals and today is the chair of the Brazilian Society of the Physiotherapist's Acupuncturists in the São Paulo State.


Speaker

Joanne Faulkner, Shiatsu Society of Ireland, Ireland

Title: Shiatsu Conscious Cooking - Healing through food
Time: 16:35 - 17:00
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JOANNE FAULKNER is a Shiatsu body therapy practitioner and author who specializes in the energy of food in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She runs a busy Shiatsu practice in Dublin, Ireland while also offering Virtual Shiatsu and Conscious Cooking Courses, Demonstrations, and Retreats around the world. She is the published author of two books, the newly launched ‘Good Food: Better Sex: A Guide to Intimacy and Love Using Traditional Chinese Medicine & Food’, which has attracted widespread national media attention and praise, plus ‘Shiatsu & the Art of Conscious Cooking’, a modern cookbook full of recipes, ancient traditional medicine, acupressure points and meditations. She is an experienced and engaging communicator making the connection between food, physical health and mental well-being. Joanne serves as Chairperson of the Shiatsu Society of Ireland, ensuring the standards of Shiatsu practice in Ireland. She blogs regularly on her food and health-focused website joannefaulkner.ie


Speaker

Russell Jaffe, Fellow, Health Studies Collegium Foundation, USA

Title: Miasma and Pandemics in TCM: Back to the future to save lives and treasure (Workshop)
Time: 17:00 - 17:45
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biography

Russ Jaffe has more than 40 years of experience contributing to molecular biology and clinical diagnostics.  He pioneered “lymphocyte tests of immune function and hypersensitivity” and is focused on providing functional, predictive tests and procedures designed to improve the precision of both diagnosis and of treatment outcomes.


He received his B.S., MD and Ph.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine, completed residency training in clinical chemistry at the National Institutes of Health and remained on the permanent senior staff before pursuing other interests, including starting the Health Studies Collegium think tank and MAGique BioTherapeutics. He is Founder and Chairman of PERQUE Integrative Health, LLC (PIH, www.PERQUE.com) a company that offers the world scientifically proven, integrative health solutions that speed the transition from sick care to healthful caring. Dr Jaffe serves as Clinical Instructor of Clinical Leadership at the George Washington University School of Medical Sciences.


Dr Jaffe is board certified in Clinical Pathology and in Chemical Pathology and the recipient of the Merck, Sharp & Dohm Excellence in Research Award, the J.D. Lane Award, and the U.S.P.H.S. Meritorious Service Award. Dr Jaffe was honored as an International Scientist of 2003 by the IBC, Oxford, England, UK for his lifetime contributions to clinical medicine, biochemistry, immunology, methodology, and integrative health policy.


Speaker

Brett Hawes, CFMP, CNP – Functional Medicine Practitioner and Clinical Nutritionist – Canada

Title: The 5 root causes of all autoimmune disease and how to address them using a functional nutrition model of care
Time: 17:45 - 18:10
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Brett is a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and Clinical Holistic Nutritionist with a primary focus on chronic and complex digestive issues, hormone health and autoimmune disease. 

He has been lead faculty at the Institute of Holistic Nutrition for 14 years and also works there as a Student Clinic Advisor. He sits on the Science Advisory Board for Uforia Science, is the Chief Advising Clinician for The Detox Project and is a consultant, formulator, and educator for numerous companies within the health and wellness industry 

His podcast, Holistic Health Masterclass, is ranked in the top 200 alternative health podcasts in the world – providing valuable health information to 1000's of listeners in 57 countries.

Brett has been interviewed by CTV, Global TV, the Calgary Herald and Toronto Observer; and has also done presentations for the National Women’s’ Show, March Against Monsanto, the Toronto non-GMO Coalition and the Canadian Society of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, among others. He is considered an expert in the field of natural medicine and holistic health. 

In 2020 he was nominated as one of the "Top 100 Healthcare Leaders" by the IFAH


Speaker

Sedigheh Sedigh Mobarakabadi, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Title: Does Ciliao acupressure have different effects on severity of pain at different phases of first stage of labor?
Time: 18:10 - 18:35
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Sedigheh Sedigh Mobarakabadi is assistance professor of Shahid Beheshti university of Medical Sciences. She holds a PhD degree in reproductive health, also, B.S and M.S in Midwifery. She has applied acupressure for management of labor since 2008. She has studied about single acupoints effect on pain and progress of labor. 


Speaker

Ligia Maria da Silva Rebelo Gomes, Centro Hospitalar Universitário, Portugal

Title: Acupuncture as a complementary treatment in prurigo nodularis – a case study
Time: 18:35 - 19:00
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Ligia Maria da Silva Rebelo Gomes. He completed a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Porto in 1998. He is an Assistant Professor at the University Fernando Pessoa. He has published 46 articles in specialized magazines and 18 works in the proceedings of events, has 4 book chapters and 3 published books. It has 10 items of technical production. Participated in 14 events abroad and 1 in Portugal. He supervised 1 master's dissertation and co-supervised 1 in the areas of Chemistry and Health Sciences. He received 4 awards and / or honors. Between 2007 and 2009 he participated in 1 research project. Currently participates in 2 research projects. In his professional activities, he interacted with 42 collaborators in co-authorship of scientific works.


Speaker

Galia Reuveni, University of Wales, UK

Title: Charting a woman's menstrual cycle in its reproductive cyclical phase, fertility diagnosis by BBT (Workshop)
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
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biography

I am an Eternal student of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After attending Chinese medicine schools in England, (International school of Chinese medicine, Northern College of Acupuncture), I earned graduate and postgraduate degrees in Acupuncture, focusing on fertility. An internship in Traditional Chinese Medicine fertility clinic in England steeped me in the reality of a fertility clinic. I have attempted to bring the best of this medicine to a clinical practice in Israel, addressing the health care of fertility patients, where I established my practice as a group practice in the women medical centre in Tel Aviv.

 

I am a founder and Director of the Acupuncture Pregnancy, and Acupuncture IVF Support clinic. My approach in the clinic integrates the theory of two medical systems, Traditional Chinese medicine and modern western medicine. Such an approach has arisen from the desire to meet the needs of my patients in the west, use the medicine and technology of the west but also to benefit from what an ancient but living tradition such as TCM can offer. I have focused on the treatment of infertility with Chinese medicine for 25 years, and have studied with some of Europe's most revered specialists. Out of the wisdom and skill of expert clinicians in infertility clinics in China, and the experience I have gained working with couples in the west and their fertility specialists, I have been able to develop acupuncture treatments appropriate for western patients having difficulty conceiving from a number of different causes.

 

For many years I have worked closely with a team I have carefully chosen to deliver expert care to couples trying to conceive. I have constructed a purpose built manual and series of treatment guidance protocols that are unique to the clinics. I monitored clinic consultations and patient needs on a daily basis.

 

I am a member of the British Acupuncture Council. I have presented at several international conferences and seminars to acupuncturists and IVF specialists doctors.