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Lloyd Wright, DNBAO, LAc, AP, BA

Lloyd Wright is the current vice president and former president of the Asian Medicine Acupuncturists of Arizona and has served on the California Acupuncture Board, the board of directors of the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Arizona Society of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture, and the California Acupuncture Association. He holds a diplomate from the National Board of Acupuncture Orthopedics and served as a qualified medical evaluator for the California workers comp system, as academic dean for two acupuncture colleges, and participated in numerous site visits for school accreditation for the Accreditation Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is currently in private practice in Scottsdale, Ariz., and in the process of completing his Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Health Sciences.

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