This year, the Trudy McAlister Foundation (TMF) received a record number of excellent applications for the 2016 scholarship awards and has awarded five scholarships for $2000 each. More information is available on our website: AOMScholarship.org.
The Recipients of the 2016 scholarships are: Elizabeth B. Barrett, Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts (scholarship sponsored by Dr. John Scott of Golden Flower Herbs); Colleen Teska, AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine; Melissa (Ariel) Bobotek, National College of Natural Medicine; Katherine (Kate) Iberg, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Chicago; and Marina Orlova, Acupuncture & Massage College.
The main goal for the AOM Scholarship Fund is to increase the amounts of the awards provided. In order to accomplish this, we need the support of the community, including vendors, colleges, organizations and individuals who want to help us make the opportunity of an education in Oriental Medicine more available to deserving, committed students. The TMF is a 501c3 non-profit corporation and all donations are tax deductible and can be made directly to the TMF. For more information or to make a contribution, visit www.AOMScholarship.org.
Fertility acupuncture sometimes gets presented as a narrow protocol: a handful of reproductive points applied uniformly across patients. What this case reinforced for me: The most powerful work happens when we read the whole picture. The hormone data, the constitutional tendency, the sleep, the digestion, and the menstrual pattern, so we can treat the environment the ovaries live inside.
Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) affects more than 15% of the U.S. population but evades most practitioners’ radar. Just five years ago, it wasn’t even on my radar, despite already having 20 years of experience as a clinician at that time. The more I dug (similar to leaky gut and post-COVID syndrome), the more I found my patients were suffering from this disorder.
The motivation behind our practice of medicine is important, impacting not just our experience but also the experiences of those we treat. It is perhaps for this reason that the aspiration to help not just some, but all beings heal, has historically been an important part of the medical tradition. To explain this, we need to consider how medicine is interwoven with other social domains.