Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine – Transformation: Spirit in Healing is a landmark educational forum on traditional Chinese medicine for Eastern and Western health-care professionals interested in exploring this medical system's growing role in integrative and complementary health care.
Body, mind, spirit and emotions. They are inextricably fused, and it is spirit that informs and energizes our physical self and psyche. To journey to the heart of healing necessitates an encounter with spirit. The path to transformation causes us, as Eastern or Western health-care professionals, to ask: What makes a patient truly whole? How can we incorporate spirit in healing to create harmony within and transform the lives and health of those we serve? How can we move beyond simply alleviating symptoms? Qi, or energy, plays a vital role in this transformative process.
Join us for our fifth year of exploring these provocative concepts from the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) perspective. Dialogue with firsthand TCM experts who have received in-depth training from some of China's most respected healing masters. Learn from today's dynamic integrative Eastern and Western medical professionals as they explore the roots of healing and health. Together we can transform contemporary health care.
The ultimate goal of Building Bridges for TCM is to expand health options and improve medical outcomes in the United States by educating CAM and conventional medical, health-care and research communities about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This includes all aspects of this time-honored system—its philosophical and theoretical underpinnings—as well as the full complement of modalities that TCM employs to prevent and address health problems. These modalities encompass acupuncture, acupressure, herbal therapy, Qigong, the prescription of foods for healing, and Chinese psychology.
Organizing Committee
Xiu-Min Li, MD (Committee Chair)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric
Allergy and Immunobiology, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, New York, NY
Effie Poy Yew Chow, PhD, RN, LAc
President, East West Academy of Healing Arts
San Francisco, CA; Member, White House Commission
on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
David L. Felten, MD, PhD
Medical Research Director, Beaumont Research Institute,
William Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak, MI
Lixin Huang, MS
President, American College of Traditional Chinese
Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Lixing Lao, PhD, MD, LAc
Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Director of
Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, Center for
Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of
Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Henry S. Sacks, MD
Director, Thomas C. Chalmers Clinical Trials Unit,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Louis Evan Teichholz, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiology; Medical Director of Cardiac
Services; Medical Director, Complementary Medical
Program, Planetree Integrative Therapies, Hackensack
University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ