Graduate Program Catalog 2012 - 2013 - AOMA Graduate School of ...

28FacultyAOMA faculty members are engaged in clinical practiceas well as having expertise in their academic field.Many of AOMA’s faculty are internationally recognizedfor their research and teaching, publish and presentfindings internationally, and conduct and participatein training programs around the globe.Full-time FacultyFaculty marked with an asterisk also serve as clinical supervisors.Yongxin Fan, lac, MD (China)*Department of Integral StudiesBMed, Beijing College of Acupuncture and Orthopedics, 1991Yongxin Fan is an accomplished instructor of traditional Chinesetuina. He practiced and taught as an attending medical doctor andinstructor in the Acupuncture Institute at the Chinese NationalAcademy of TCM and at the Beijing International AcupunctureTraining Center. A member of AOBTA, Yongxin Fan has lecturedand worked as a visiting professor in Holland, Germany, and Japan.He has more than 20 years of clinical experience and his researchhas been published in the National Journal of TCM. He specializesin applying an integrated therapy of acupuncture, herbs, and tuinato treat various pain syndromes, acute and chronic articulation andmuscle injury, lumbago, recovery of fractures, headaches, stress,allergies, insomnia, and gastrointestinal disorders. Fan has instructedat AOMA since 2002.Song Luo, lac, PhD, MD (China)*Department of AcupuncturePhD in Medicine, Chengdu University of TCM, 2003MMed, Chengdu University of TCM, 2000BMed, Chengdu University of TCM, 1993During his twelve years at the Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital inChengdu, China, Luo was designated an “Excellent Doctor,” an honorbestowed on only 10 of the 2000 doctors in the hospital. He taughtundergraduate and postgraduate students at the Chengdu Universityof TCM and gave lectures to a variety of audiences including localdoctors, patients, and foreign doctors from more than 15 countries inEurope, America, and Asia. He has been a professional interpreter forthe Chengdu University of TCM as well as for international medicaldelegations. Luo’s research experience includes effects of electroacupunctureon Alzheimer’s disease, and the use of acupunctureand herbal treatments on cerebral hemorrhage. Luo has instructed atAOMA since 2005.Raja Mandyam, MD (India)Director, Department of Biomedical SciencesMBBS, Bangalore University, 1966Raja Mandyam obtained membership in the Royal College ofPhysicians, London in 1974 and held a consultant post at MedwayHospital in Kent, England, specializing in intensive care. He hasworked worldwide and has held consultant physician positions inEngland, India, Papua New Guinea, and Saudi Arabia. He taught formore than 10 years at a medical school in Bangalore, India. Mandyamis interested in the adaptation of modern medicine into trans-culturalsettings and extending healthcare teaching at all levels. In 1998, hewas elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians,London. Mandyam has instructed at AOMA since 2000.Xiaotian Shen, lac, MD (China), MPH (Israel)*Professional Clinic Medical DirectorMPH, Hebrew University, 1999BMed, Chengdu University of TCM, 1993Xiaotian Shen has taught acupuncture and herbal medicine at twocolleges in China and was a traditional Chinese medicine physician atthe Teaching Hospital of Sichuan College of Medicinal C.E. In additionto contributing to various professional journals, Shen serves as amember of the NCCAOM exam-writing committee and is a certifiedexaminer of Clean Needle Techniques. He is a frequent presenter atnational conferences on topics such as the use of traditional Chinesemedicine in treating patients with multiple sclerosis, hepatitis, anddiabetes, and on the interactions between Chinese herbs andpharmaceuticals. Shen has instructed at AOMA since 1999.Yaoping (Violet) Song, lac , PhDDepartment of Herbal StudiesMAcOM, AOMA, 2010PhD, Chengdu University of TCM, 2007MS, Chengdu University of TCM, 2004BA, Chengdu University of TCM, 2001Prior to beginning her employment with AOMA, Song worked asan instructor at Chengdu University, lecturing on the science ofTCM prescriptions, TCM herbology, and TCM pharmacology. Shehas participated in research studies investigating the compatibility,pharmacology, and toxicology of TCM formulas and Chinese ethnicmedicine. She has also participated in research grants from the NationalScience Foundation of China. Song has instructed at AOMA since 2008.Tracy Stuardi, lac, PhDDepartment of Acupuncture StudiesPhD, University of York, 2012MSOM, American College of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, 2005BS, Mississippi University for Women, 2002Tracy Stuardi earned a bachelor’s of science degree in microbiologybefore completing her master’s degree of Oriental medicine at AmericanCollege of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine in Houston, TX. Stuardithen went on to graduate level studies in biology at the University ofAlabama where she served as a molecular cancer researcher, studyingthe effects of green tea exctract on the DNA of cancer cells and needleperturbations on cytoskeleton remodeling in fibroblasts. Pursuing herpassion for research lead Stuardi to complete doctoral studies in 2012at the University of York, UK with her dissertation focusing on therelative importance of Chinese medicine diagnosis differentiation andtreatment individualization as seen through a study on IBS. In additionto conducting research, Stuardi has given presentations on acupunctureat conferences within the U.S. and Norway. As the author of numerousstudies, her work has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals includingthe Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, MedicalAcupuncture, Current Genomics, and BMC Gastroenterology.