Chronic pain afflicts over 20% of the adult population. Sadly, most MDs have essentially no education in treating pain, beyond offering a few toxic medications. Then they tend to steer people with pain away from those health practitioners who are trained. This puts the acupuncture community on the front lines for addressing this epidemic.
Harmony Heming Zhu
Dr. Heming Zhu graduated from medical school of Western medicine in China and worked as a neurologist in the affiliated teaching hospital and as an instructor in the medical school. He was trained by his grandfather Zhu Qingyu (a classical Chinese Medicine physician) for 20 years and named the heir of the 25th generation of Zhu's Chinese medicine lineage (School of Zhu Danxi, 1281-1358 AD). He received his Ph.D. of Medicine in Anatomy and Neuroscience from Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China. In the United States, he has worked at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) studying neuroscience and tumorigenesis, and received the NIH Award for Research Excellence. Dr. Zhu was awarded the international certificate of Chinese Medicine Doctor (CMD) by the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS). He received his M.Ac. from Tai Sophia Institute. Dr. Zhu has published more than 20 peer reviewed journal articles and is the author of the book, Surface Anatomy of Acupuncture (2009). He is a core faculty of Tai Sophia Institute and maintains a private practice Harmony Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Center in Columbia and Ellicott City, MD.