About the practice
For example, the root cause of many health issues is our immune system. God gave us wonderful immunities to keep ourselves healthy. It takes years of abuse from our behavior and our environment to destroy our immunities. Of course, it will take a concerted effort to restore our failed immunities. You will need to eat healthy, live a healthy lifestyle, detox your body, take supplements, and perhaps receive some herbal or acupuncture treatments. If medications are necessary, I will also prescribe those for you. A parent once asked me, “How do you know which tool works if we use all of them together?” I don't care which one works, because I am not experimenting on my patients. All I want is to heal my patient, whatever it takes.
Another example: there are wonderful acupuncture and herbal treatments for chronic recurrent sinusitis. But I know that the most direct and effective way to cure a sinus infection and prevent its recurrence is to irrigate the sinuses. I have a very powerful yet friendly sinus irrigation machine; this is a traditional medical machine yet a very holistic tool. I will do sinus irrigation as the first treatment, and then I will do an allergy work-up and a general work-up, which are traditional medical procedures. Eliminating the offending factors and irrigating the sinus takes care of most sinus problems. If the patient still needs further help, I will use herbs to strengthen immunity, and I will apply acupuncture to balance the meridian and strengthen the organs.
As you can see, the more modalities a physician knows, the more effectively he can help the patient. I was double boarded with the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Medical Acupuncture. As an MD with both medical and acupuncture licenses to practice western and eastern medicine, I was trusted with this privilege to help my patients. Above all these, I really want to heal my patients holistically, and I take great pride and pleasure doing this.
Education
- MD degree from Taipei Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan
- MPH degree from University of Texas at Houston, Houston, Texas
Training
- Pediatric residency. St Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, MD 1981-1982
- Pediatric residency. Rutgers Medical school (now Robert Wood Johnson University), New Brunswick, NJ 1982-1984
- UCLA medical acupuncture course, 2002-2003
Practice, Holmdel, NJ
- General pediatrics and adolescents 1985-2007
- Integrated medicine 1997-2007
- Medical acupuncture 2003-2007
Affiliation
- Riverview medical center, Red Bank, NJ. Full attending since 1990
Licenses
- Medical doctor License. State of New Jersey
- MD-Acupuncture certificate, State of New Jersey
Certifications
- American Board of Pediatrics 1986
- American Board of Medical Acupuncture 2005
Society
- Fellow of American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) since 1986
- American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA) since 2003
Specialty continuing education courses
- Alternative medicine: Implication for clinical practice - Harvard Medical school 1997
- Botanic Medicine in modern clinical practice. Columbia Univ. 2002
- AAMA annual symposium 2005
- Oriental Medicine and Women's health. The treatment of Infertility and Menopause -Georgia Association of Medical Acupuncturists, Atlanta, GA 2005
- Auricular acupuncture workshop - AAMA annual symposium 2006
- Basic and advanced acupuncture balance method from the Book of Change. with. Richard Tan, OMD, New York, 2006
- Weekly Chinese herbal course with Dr. Yang 2005-2006