Speaker Biographies
Monday, 22 February 2010 12:28
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Richard Bertschinger
Unfurling the banner: how the names of points guide us towards the qi
Saturday 11.00-12.15 - Introductory lecture
Sunday 09.45-12.45 - Practical workshop
Richard has been in practice for 30 years, including working in an NHS chronic pain clinic.
Isobel Cosgrove & Sally Blades
Saturday 11.00 -12.15
Sunday 09.45 -11.15
Saturday 11.00 -12.15
Sunday 09.45 -11.15
Supervision: taking charge of our professional lives.
Isobel Cosgrove taught human ecology at Oxford University for 12 years before qualifying as a practitioner in 1981. She was a faculty member at the College of Traditional Acupuncture for 10 years and since 1993 has been offering supervision and training in supervision to the acupuncture profession.
She believes passionately that we must take care of ourselves before we take care of others, and that supervision is a vital part of self and professional development. In 2009 she ran a conference in London for acupuncture supervisors on Transitions In Our Professional Lives which was so well received that it will be offered as an annual event.
Sally Blades is a registered acupuncturist and member of the British Acupuncture Council, having been in practice since 1984. She graduated from the College of Traditional Acupuncture and in 1991, undertook two further years of study and clinical training in TCM with John and Angela Hicks. She studied in hospitals in China in 2002 and 2004. From 1993 to 2000, she was a senior lecturer at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading.
Sally has been supervising and mentoring for over 10 years. In 1998 she participated in the first supervision training run by Isobel Cosgrove and now she teaches with her on the Training in Supervision courses. She supervises health practitioners and coaches individually or in groups and continues to develop her supervisory skills with The Bath Consultancy Group.
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Charlie Buck
Saturday 09.30 - 10.30
How do Masters get to be Masters?
Saturday 09.30 - 10.30
How do Masters get to be Masters?
Now well into his third decade in the world of acupuncture Charlie was in the first handful of UK acupuncturists to also practise Chinese herbal medicine. As an educator he has made significant contributions to TCM education at the NCA in York and more widely in many seminars in the Britain and Europe. Rooted equally in both Chinese medicine scholarship and in science, Charlie’s teaching has been described as lucid, insightful and engaging. He is director of the Chester Clinic (UK).
Stefan Chmelik
Saturday 12.15 - 13.15
Saturday 17.30 - 18.30
Increasing your effectiveness and enriching your practice by completing the circle: adding the yin of herbs to the yang of acupuncture
Saturday 17.30 - 18.30
Increasing your effectiveness and enriching your practice by completing the circle: adding the yin of herbs to the yang of acupuncture
Stefan Chmelik has practised medicine for almost 20 years. He specialises in the treatment of skin conditions, women’s health, and complex conditions using Chinese medicine (acupuncture, herbal medicine, tuina massage and dietary therapy), as well as integrated bodywork, trauma healing, mindfulness techniques and breath coaching.
He is the founder of the New Medicine Group, a past president of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, author of a bestselling book on Chinese medicine, and an expert legal witness. He works with the RCHM and the European Herbal & Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association on regulatory issues.
He is the founder of the New Medicine Group, a past president of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine, author of a bestselling book on Chinese medicine, and an expert legal witness. He works with the RCHM and the European Herbal & Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association on regulatory issues.
Gordon Faulkner
Saturday 11.00 - 12.15, 14.15 - 17.45
Sunday 08.00 - 09.00, 16.00 - 17.30
Daoyin yusang gong: qigong for stress reduction
Gordon Faulkner is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and long-time member of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. He has taught oriental martial and health arts for over 30 years. He has been nominated successor to the Daoyin yangsheng gong lineage. Further studies in China into internal martial arts led to him becoming a 14th generation lineage holder of Wudang quan.
Sunday 08.00 - 09.00, 16.00 - 17.30
Daoyin yusang gong: qigong for stress reduction
Gordon Faulkner is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, and long-time member of the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. He has taught oriental martial and health arts for over 30 years. He has been nominated successor to the Daoyin yangsheng gong lineage. Further studies in China into internal martial arts led to him becoming a 14th generation lineage holder of Wudang quan.
One of the founders and first general secretary of the Royal Air Force Martial Arts Federation, Gordon held this post until his retirement from military service in 1993.
He is the president of the European Daoyin yangsheng gong Federation for Scotland and Wales, Principal instructor of the Chanquanshu School of Daoist Arts and teaches widely in Europe.
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Mike Freeman & Isobel Cosgrove
Sunday 14.00 - 15.30
Treating and talking: caring for and working with dying patients
Mike Freeman and Isobel Cosgrove have both worked extensively with patients who are in or have been in palliative care.
Mike Freeman initially trained as a social worker in 1982 and worked in London and New Zealand. He specialised in working with people who were undergoing treatment for cancer and palliative care, working in regional radiotherapy centres, university hospitals and hospices.
Mike has always been pro-active in the area of supervision and teaching and has worked independently as a supervisor within the health setting. Working with terminally ill patients was the catalyst in starting his training in acupuncture and herbal medicine at the Northern College of Acupuncture. Until, recently, Mike was part of the practitioner development teaching team at the NCA.
Sunday 14.00 - 15.30
Treating and talking: caring for and working with dying patients
Mike Freeman and Isobel Cosgrove have both worked extensively with patients who are in or have been in palliative care.
Mike Freeman initially trained as a social worker in 1982 and worked in London and New Zealand. He specialised in working with people who were undergoing treatment for cancer and palliative care, working in regional radiotherapy centres, university hospitals and hospices.
Mike has always been pro-active in the area of supervision and teaching and has worked independently as a supervisor within the health setting. Working with terminally ill patients was the catalyst in starting his training in acupuncture and herbal medicine at the Northern College of Acupuncture. Until, recently, Mike was part of the practitioner development teaching team at the NCA.
Isobel Cosgrove taught human ecology at Oxford University for 12 years before qualifying as a practitioner in 1981. She was a faculty member at the College of Traditional Acupuncture for 10 years and since 1993 has been offering supervision and training in supervision to the acupuncture profession.
She believes passionately that we must take care of ourselves before we take care of others, and that supervision is a vital part of self and professional development. In 2009 she ran a conference in London for acupuncture supervisors on Transitions In Our Professional Lives which was so well received that it will be offered as an annual event.
Angela Hicks
Saturday 11.00 - 13.00
Qi is magic! Practical ways to balance body and mind in the treatment room
Angela Hicks has been in practice since 1976 and is joint principal of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, which she co-founded in 1993. She is a Chinese herbal medicine practitioner and practises qigong. For many years Angela practised ki aikido to the grade of 2nd dan. She is also a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a Focusing practitioner.
Saturday 11.00 - 13.00
Qi is magic! Practical ways to balance body and mind in the treatment room
Angela Hicks has been in practice since 1976 and is joint principal of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, which she co-founded in 1993. She is a Chinese herbal medicine practitioner and practises qigong. For many years Angela practised ki aikido to the grade of 2nd dan. She is also a master practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a Focusing practitioner.
Angela originally studied acupuncture at the College of Traditional Acupuncture where she was a lecturer and clinical supervisor from 1979-87. She went on to study TCM in 1987, completing clinical training in China in 1988.
She is the author or co-author of six books, including Healing Your Emotions, Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture, The Acupuncture Handbook and 77 Ways To Improve Your Wellbeing.
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Gaby Hock
Saturday 11.00 - 13.00
The doctor is the medicine: the heart and the five spirits in the life of the healing practitioner
Gaby Hock trained initially with JR Worsley, from 1976-83, gaining an MAc in 1983. She also studied with Giovanni Maciocia and undertook a TCM integration course with John and Angela Hicks. In 1991 she obtained an advanced diploma in transpersonal psychotherapy and a diploma in transpersonal supervision from the London College of Transpersonal psychology.
In the mid 1980s, together with Sigrid Klain, Gaby ran the first five element seminars in Berlin and Frankfurt. She is a lecturer at TCM training institutes in Europe and in the UK.
Gaby is currently a lecturer at the Schule für Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin near Frankfurt and runs seminars for health professionals on the five elements and the art of self-cultivation. She has a private acupuncture and psychotherapy practice in Oxford.
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The doctor is the medicine: the heart and the five spirits in the life of the healing practitioner
Gaby Hock trained initially with JR Worsley, from 1976-83, gaining an MAc in 1983. She also studied with Giovanni Maciocia and undertook a TCM integration course with John and Angela Hicks. In 1991 she obtained an advanced diploma in transpersonal psychotherapy and a diploma in transpersonal supervision from the London College of Transpersonal psychology.
In the mid 1980s, together with Sigrid Klain, Gaby ran the first five element seminars in Berlin and Frankfurt. She is a lecturer at TCM training institutes in Europe and in the UK.
Gaby is currently a lecturer at the Schule für Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin near Frankfurt and runs seminars for health professionals on the five elements and the art of self-cultivation. She has a private acupuncture and psychotherapy practice in Oxford.
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Nancy Holroyde Downing
Saturday 17.30 - 18.30
Sunday 11.45 - 13.00
Sunday 11.45 - 13.00
Diagnosis in Chinese medicine: has it always been the same?
Nancy Holroyde Downing has been practising traditional Chinese medicine for the past 25 years. Her background includes eight years of apprenticeship training in acupuncture and herbal medicine with Chinese doctors in the United States and qualifications in Asian bodywork, Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture from Colleges in the US and England. She has been a teacher of Chinese medicine on many college and university programmes, as well as running seminars in diagnostic techniques.
Nancy is currently doing research in Beijing as part of a PhD programme at the Wellcome Trust centre for the History of Medicine at UCL.
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Dr Val Hopwood
Saturday 11.00 - 12.15
Acupuncture and neurological conditions
Dr Val Hopwood qualified as a physiotherapist in 1967, working in the UK, Switzerland and Honduras in various fields including TB, polio, gunshot wounds, artificial limb-fitting, community physiotherapy and neurological rehabilitation. She trained in acupuncture in Nanjing, China in 1989.
Val became a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists in 2000, for her work in education. She is course director for the MSc in acupuncture at Coventry University and is honorary research fellow at Southampton University. Her PhD research was an investigation into the effect of acupuncture on stroke recovery.
She has written two textbooks, Acupuncture in Physiotherapy and Acupuncture in Neurological Conditions.
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Val became a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists in 2000, for her work in education. She is course director for the MSc in acupuncture at Coventry University and is honorary research fellow at Southampton University. Her PhD research was an investigation into the effect of acupuncture on stroke recovery.
She has written two textbooks, Acupuncture in Physiotherapy and Acupuncture in Neurological Conditions.
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Elisabeth Hsu
Saturday 12.15 - 13.15
Generating synchronicity : an exploration into the efficacy of Chinese medicine
Saturday 12.15 - 13.15
Generating synchronicity : an exploration into the efficacy of Chinese medicine
Dr Elisabeth Hsu is reader in social anthropology and convenor of the MSc and MPhil in medical anthropology at Oxford University. She studied standard modern Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute in 1978 and completed an MSc in general linguistics and a doctoral degree in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. In 2002 she obtained a habilitation in sinology from Heidelberg University, in recognition of her book-length study on pulse diagnostics in early China.
Her research interests lie within the fields of medical anthropology and ethnobotany, language and historical textual studies, as well as in new approaches to kinship and relatedness. All of these with special regard to Chinese medicine, focusing on pulse diagnosis, body and personhood, touch, pain, feelings, emotions, and sensory experience.
Barbara Kirschbaum
Saturday 11.00 - 13.00
Sunday 14.00 - 17.00
Tongue diagnosis and blood stasis
Barbara Kirschbaum qualified in 1981 at the International College of Oriental Medicine. She has also studied with Giovanni Maciocia, Ted Kaptchuk and Dan Bensky. Between 1997-8 she undertook internships at Chinese hospitals in Kunming, Tianjin and Chengdu.
Barbara has lectured around the world for over 25 years, talking on many aspects of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Her positions include director of the school of Chinese Pharmacology in Hamburg, senior lecturer at the University of Witten in Herdecke and for the Argetcm Vienna.
She is the author of the Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis, Volumes 1 and 2. Barbara has been in practice for 29 years.
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Sunday 14.00 - 17.00
Tongue diagnosis and blood stasis
Barbara Kirschbaum qualified in 1981 at the International College of Oriental Medicine. She has also studied with Giovanni Maciocia, Ted Kaptchuk and Dan Bensky. Between 1997-8 she undertook internships at Chinese hospitals in Kunming, Tianjin and Chengdu.
Barbara has lectured around the world for over 25 years, talking on many aspects of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Her positions include director of the school of Chinese Pharmacology in Hamburg, senior lecturer at the University of Witten in Herdecke and for the Argetcm Vienna.
She is the author of the Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis, Volumes 1 and 2. Barbara has been in practice for 29 years.
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Daverick Leggett
Saturday 09.30 - 10.30, 16.15 - 17.30
Sunday 11.45 - 13.00
Qigong
Daverick Leggett is the author of two books on nutrition and Chinese medicine: Helping Ourselves (1994) and Recipes for Self-Healing (1999). He is a guest lecturer at several colleges of oriental medicine at home and abroad and currently teaches qigong as a part of the MSc programme at the College of Traditional Acupuncture. He has been teaching qigong throughout the UK since the early 1990s and is a senior teacher of the Hua gong style.
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Saturday 09.30 - 10.30, 16.15 - 17.30
Sunday 11.45 - 13.00
Qigong
Daverick Leggett is the author of two books on nutrition and Chinese medicine: Helping Ourselves (1994) and Recipes for Self-Healing (1999). He is a guest lecturer at several colleges of oriental medicine at home and abroad and currently teaches qigong as a part of the MSc programme at the College of Traditional Acupuncture. He has been teaching qigong throughout the UK since the early 1990s and is a senior teacher of the Hua gong style.
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Dr Christopher Low
Sunday 11.45-13.00
Healing intention and external qi: the chaos connection
Sunday 11.45-13.00
Healing intention and external qi: the chaos connection
Dr Christopher Low is an acupuncturist, intuitive and healer with more than 30 years clinical experience. Also a trained pharmacologist, he has studied physiological impacts of intention on heartbeat regulation during daoyin healing, an early precursor to qigong healing, and has investigated other research into external qi. He maintains that both daoyin and external qi are essential to the practice of qigong healing. His main interest is in understanding therapeutic agency and healing processes and in identifying promising research perspectives in biology/medicine.
With a doctorate in complementary health studies, Chris is also an advanced practitioner in a contact form of daoyin healing which is applied to the jingluo or meridian system. He works in Cambridge, where he jointly runs the multidisciplinary Cambridge Complementary Health Practice.
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Yair Maimon
Saturday 14.15-17.15
Saturday 14.15-17.15
Treating the shen and psychological disorders
Yair Maimon describes himself as an eternal student of Chinese medicine who is devoted to treating his patients. He has studied different forms of Chinese medicine with highly acclaimed teachers from all around the world: five element, TCM, stems and branches, Japanese acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, plus studies of ancient texts. He has undertaken postgraduate studies in paediatrics, gynaecology and oncology.
Yair is head of the Israeli centre for research into complementary medicine and chair of the International Congress of Chinese Medicine in Israel. He is the former dean of the Medi-Cin College of Complementary Medicine and has lectured in medical psychology at Tel Aviv university. He currently lectures worldwide.
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Colonel (Dr) Heather Pickett & Dr Terri Ruitcel
Saturday 14.15-17.15
Battlefield auricular acupuncture
Saturday 14.15-17.15
Battlefield auricular acupuncture
Colonel Heather Pickett DO is a family physician/osteopath in the US Air Force and has been practising medical acupuncture for five years. She is a full-time faculty member at the Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas. She has an additional fellowship in faculty development from the University of North Carolina. Heather has also served as a flight surgeon on various AF airframes and has been involved in the NASA shuttle mission support. She graduated from the USAF Academy.
Dr Terri Riutcel is a board-certified adult forensic psychiatrist who practises medical acupuncture at Scott Air Force base in Illinois. She graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine with her medical degree in 1995 and from the Helms Medical institute in 2006 where she studied medical acupuncture. Since that time, she has treated chronic pain and psycho-emotional illness with acupuncture in the clinical and academic setting as well as in the deployed setting when she was in Iraq in 2008.
Michael Pringle
Sunday 09.45–12.45, 14.00–17.00
Fire cupping: transforming your practice with safe and effective cupping
Sunday 09.45–12.45, 14.00–17.00
Fire cupping: transforming your practice with safe and effective cupping
Michael Pringle originally qualified in acupuncture in 1982. In 2003 he spent a month studying under Dr Wang Ning Shen in Nanjing, China. As well as being a master diagnostician, Dr Wang was renowned for his gentle cupping. Michael undertook a thorough training in cupping during this stay and he believes that using cupping has transformed his practice. In 2007 the Journal of Chinese Medicine published his article on fire cupping.
Michael is currently Librarian and Resources Manager at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine where he also works as a practitioner.
Tony Reid
Saturday 14.15–15.45
Depression: a multi-faceted problem
Tony ‘fell in love’ with Chinese medicine in 1976. At that time he was studying western medicine and his new obsession proved disruptive, but in a good way, he says! Tony believes that Chinese medicine is a continual process of discovery, not only within the field of medicine, but also within oneself. In addition to his passion for clarity of expression in TCM technical terminology, he has an interest in how the human psyche and its ills are viewed within the paradigms of TCM.
He is author of the practical clinical guides, Essential Formulas and Empirical Formulas and is a regular contributor to professional journals.
Dr Terri Ruitcel
Saturday 12.15-13.15
Sunday 09.00-09.45
Acupuncture in the United States Air Force: the physician’s experience
Dr Terri Riutcel is a board-certified adult forensic psychiatrist who practises medical acupuncture at Scott Air Force base in Illinois. She graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine with her medical degree in 1995 and from the Helms Medical institute in 2006 where she studied medical acupuncture. Since that time, she has treated chronic pain and psycho-emotional illness with acupuncture in the clinical and academic setting as well as in the deployed setting when she was in Iraq in 2008.
Saturday 12.15-13.15
Sunday 09.00-09.45
Acupuncture in the United States Air Force: the physician’s experience
Dr Terri Riutcel is a board-certified adult forensic psychiatrist who practises medical acupuncture at Scott Air Force base in Illinois. She graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine with her medical degree in 1995 and from the Helms Medical institute in 2006 where she studied medical acupuncture. Since that time, she has treated chronic pain and psycho-emotional illness with acupuncture in the clinical and academic setting as well as in the deployed setting when she was in Iraq in 2008.
Tuvia Scott
Saturday 11.00-13.00
Sunday 14.00-15.30
Abdominal acupuncture: to balance fire and water and strengthen yuan qi
Saturday 11.00-13.00
Sunday 14.00-15.30
Abdominal acupuncture: to balance fire and water and strengthen yuan qi
Tuvia Scott has been practising and teaching Chinese medicine since 1994. He is currently the academic director of the TCM department at Campus Broshim, at Tel Aviv University in Israel and is formerly a member of the board of the Israeli Association of TCM. He is founder of the Israeli centre for abdominal acupuncture, which runs workshops on abdominal acupuncture in Israel and Europe.
In the past few years Tuvia has been involved in practical research into the effectiveness of abdominal acupuncture, along with studying aspects of the classics in support of his theory.
In the past few years Tuvia has been involved in practical research into the effectiveness of abdominal acupuncture, along with studying aspects of the classics in support of his theory.
Radha Thambirajah
Saturday 14.15-17.15
Musculo-skeletal pain: differential diagnosis and treatment according to the four bi syndromes
Radha Thambirajah studied medicine and acupuncture at the Shanghai Medical College, graduating in 1970. She founded the Academy of Chinese Acupuncture in Sri Lanka in 1980 and since then has trained many acupuncturists all over the world. She now lives and practises in the UK, in Sutton Coldfield.
Radha lectures to many schools and medical organisations in Europe. Her first book Cosmetic Acupuncture and Dermatological Diseases was published in English in 2008. Her second book The Energetics of Acupuncture was first released in German and has just been translated into English.
Saturday 14.15-17.15
Musculo-skeletal pain: differential diagnosis and treatment according to the four bi syndromes
Radha Thambirajah studied medicine and acupuncture at the Shanghai Medical College, graduating in 1970. She founded the Academy of Chinese Acupuncture in Sri Lanka in 1980 and since then has trained many acupuncturists all over the world. She now lives and practises in the UK, in Sutton Coldfield.
Radha lectures to many schools and medical organisations in Europe. Her first book Cosmetic Acupuncture and Dermatological Diseases was published in English in 2008. Her second book The Energetics of Acupuncture was first released in German and has just been translated into English.
Frances Turner with Joanna Attwell
Saturday 14.15-17.15
Sunday 14.00-17.00
The language of the pulse
Frances Turner is programme leader for the MSc in oriental herbal medicine at the London College of Traditional Acupuncture, where she also supervises in the acupuncture student clinic. After completing an MPhil research degree on the English language of Chinese medicine, she developed the Three Step System of Chinese pulse reading, emphasising the clear naming of pulse images to facilitate a systematic approach to feeling and interpreting the pulse.
She runs a private practice in North London, and for her, the main focus of her practice is healing; how we as acupuncturists and herbalists can facilitate our patients’ self-healing. She finds that taking the pulse is a moment of quiet in a consultation that enables us as practitioners to concentrate on feeling the movement of qi.
For 17 years, Frances was a freelance Baroque violinist, recording and performing around the world. She then studied acupuncture and herbal medicine and qualified in 1990.
Saturday 14.15-17.15
Sunday 14.00-17.00
The language of the pulse
Frances Turner is programme leader for the MSc in oriental herbal medicine at the London College of Traditional Acupuncture, where she also supervises in the acupuncture student clinic. After completing an MPhil research degree on the English language of Chinese medicine, she developed the Three Step System of Chinese pulse reading, emphasising the clear naming of pulse images to facilitate a systematic approach to feeling and interpreting the pulse.
She runs a private practice in North London, and for her, the main focus of her practice is healing; how we as acupuncturists and herbalists can facilitate our patients’ self-healing. She finds that taking the pulse is a moment of quiet in a consultation that enables us as practitioners to concentrate on feeling the movement of qi.
For 17 years, Frances was a freelance Baroque violinist, recording and performing around the world. She then studied acupuncture and herbal medicine and qualified in 1990.
Beverley de Valois
Saturday 17.30-18.30
Sunday 11.45-13.00
To needle or not to needle: using acupuncture in the management of lymphoedema
Saturday 17.30-18.30
Sunday 11.45-13.00
To needle or not to needle: using acupuncture in the management of lymphoedema
Beverley de Valois graduated from the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in 1996, and has worked as a research acupuncturist in the NHS since 2000. She was awarded a PhD in 2007 by Thames Valley University for research into using acupuncture to manage hot flushes in breast cancer patients. In 2008, she was awarded a grant by the National Institute of Health Research to conduct exploratory research into using acupuncture to improve the quality of life for people with lymphoedema.
Dr Trevor Wing
Saturday 16.15-17.30
Diagnosing and treating postpartum diseases using acupuncture and herbs
Dr Trevor Wing is a specialist in the TCM treatment of female health conditions, with particular interest in applying scientific research to natural medicine. At his London clinic he carries out evidence-based research and treats a wide range of gynaecological and obstetric conditions.
Trevor graduated with a first class honours degree from the London College of Traditional Acupuncture where he is now a teacher and sits on the board of governors.
Previously, he studied conventional reproductive medicine and holds an MSc in oriental herbal medicine, an MSc in obstetrics and gynaecology, qualifications in diagnostic ultrasound, and a doctorate in medical imaging.
Trevor has practised gynaecology at Nanjing’s First Medical University Hospital in China and lectures at postgraduate level at universities in Europe and the USA.
A regular contributor to professional journals, Trevor is also a peer reviewer for many journals, including Complementary Therapies in Medicine and Reproductive Biomedicine Online.
Trevor graduated with a first class honours degree from the London College of Traditional Acupuncture where he is now a teacher and sits on the board of governors.
Previously, he studied conventional reproductive medicine and holds an MSc in oriental herbal medicine, an MSc in obstetrics and gynaecology, qualifications in diagnostic ultrasound, and a doctorate in medical imaging.
Trevor has practised gynaecology at Nanjing’s First Medical University Hospital in China and lectures at postgraduate level at universities in Europe and the USA.
A regular contributor to professional journals, Trevor is also a peer reviewer for many journals, including Complementary Therapies in Medicine and Reproductive Biomedicine Online.