Justine Deutsch (‘07) has started Acupuncture Together, a new community acupuncture clinic in Cambridge, MA. Acupuncture Together offers acupuncture with an affordable sliding scale, as well as Chinese herbal medicine – Justine's wish is to make acupuncture affordable and accessible to the Cambridge community and beyond. Before opening her practice she was very fortunate to gain much valuable experience in community acupuncture by working at Manchester Acupuncture Studio with fellow alum and owner Andrew Wegman (‘00).
Contact details: Acupuncture Together, 2464 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 420, Cambridge, MA 02140. 617-499-9993. www.acupuncturetogether.com
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Susan Davis '84 writes that there will be a workshop at NESA on Sept. 13 entitled Implementing EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to Facilitate Positive Clinical Results . This workshop will be from 8:30am-5:30pm and will provide 8 PDA and/or 8 CAEU. This program is NCCAOM approved. Early registration is $200, 2 weeks prior to the date, and $250 after that. She will also be in the Boston area from May through October for EFT workshops for clinics and private practices and individual sessions.
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Danny Quaranto '86 writes "Like most of us in practice, I was constantly inundated with promotional materials from homeopathic suppliers. I had patients that I thought I would try them with. To my surprise some of them got better. I wanted to then get a more root level understanding of homeopathy and delved into a course that involved driving to Orlando every 3rd weekend of the month for a 3-day weekend to learn Classical Homeopahty. I did that for 3 years. Glutton for punishment that I am, I then went to Calcutta, India for a month to the Bengal Allen Medical Institute and studied with Dr. Subrata Banerjea. India is a place where homeopathy is still practiced the way that Samuel Hahnemann developed it. Additionally, it is mainstream medicine there and the level of pathology that homeopathy is used to treat is astounding. In class we had several people who had journeyed 2 days to get to our classroom to tell us their story about how they had cancer which had been verified with CAT scans and other imaging tests and then were treated with classical homeopathy and the cancer has gone. Again, this was verified by imaging tests. Most homeopathy courses for professionals are about 150 hours. I've had 700 hours of classroom training.
I just had a patient 2 months ago who came to me with lung cancer. I told her that if the cancer is operable to go to the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa and have them take it out. She went to the Center and they scheduled her for an operation in a month's time. She returned to me and I suggested that in the meantime, 'Let's do something instead of just wait a month.' So I took her case homeopathically and gave her the remedy. She went back to the Moffitt Center for her operation and they did a pre-op scan. They couldn't find the lung cancer. She brought her son in to talk to me about a career in acupuncture, and she is taking a 5-week course that I offer called, "Homeopathy for the 'Go To' Person." I've seen brain tumors go away and pancreatic cancers go away. Alas, I've seen people die too."
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Joyce Nemser '99: In addition to maintaining a private practice as an acupuncturist, she works for the Boston Public Health Commission and the Fenway Community Health Center as a detoxification acupuncturist. She has given talks on acupuncture at Pine Street Inn and Rosie's Place, two homeless shelters in the Boston area.
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Beth Sommers (Class of 1979) was re-elected as Co-Chair of the Alternative and Complementary Health Practices Group of the American Public Health Association. She also edits the group's newsletter. Beth and Kristen Porter (Class of 1994) continue to write a column on public health for Acupuncture Today, and have recently gone international in their new column for Jing Shen, an acupuncture periodical published in England.
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Rob Prasaad Steiner, MD MPH PhD (NESA '77) still resides in Louisville and continues as a University faculty there. Last year and early this year I worked with University of Maryland and Ford/UAW at the Ford truck plant in Louisville on an acupuncture low back pain clinical trial. I continue to study Asian cultural health care systems and have had articles and book chapters accepted for publication about Tibetan Medicine, including some suggested research methods to make valid cross-cultural inquiries. As a designated learner of complexity sciences in my department at U of L, I am now attempting to link the theory of complexity with Abhidharma (Mahamudra) Teachings as part of my work and spiritual journey.
On November 23-25, 2005, Cheme Yudon, the youngest daughter of the late Nyingma lama - Pemakod Jedung Tulku Rimpoche, and I participated in an arranged marriage in Dharamsala conducted by H.H. Karmapa XVII Urgyen Trinley Dorje, and then again in another ceremony in Delhi. She came to the USA as a permanent resident on November 14, 2006. We are beginning to develop a non-profit corporation to assist with fund raising to preserve the termas of her Father and translate them into English, to build stupas in Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh, India (extreme NE India near borders of Tibet and Burma (Myanmar)), and to find the yangsi - or new reincarnation - of her Father as predicted by H.H. Dalai Lama.
I have kept up with only a few classmates from NESA over the past decades. I am happy to hear from you and your attempts to rejoin our classmates with others.
Best wishes of Tashi Delek!
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David Kailin, Ph.D., M.P.H., L.Ac. (NESA class of 1978) lives in Corvallis, Oregon. He recently published a major text entitled Quality In Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CMS Press, 2006). It is being used as an examination question source by NCCAOM. Learn more about the text at www.qualityincam.com, and more about Dr. Kailin's activities at www.convergentmedical.com .
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American Doctors Bring Acupuncture to China
Recently completing an internship at the Affiliated Hospital of the Qingdao University Medical School, Danny Quaranto, Doctor of Oriental Medicine was struck by the ironic juxtaposition. As director of the Alternative Medicine Family Care Center, in Vero Beach, Quaranto took the opportunity to train in the acute neurology ward. Nine other doctors from all over the U.S.A. also completed the training in Qingdao utilizing a specialized form of scalp acupuncture developed by Qing Ming Zhu of San Jose, CA to treat people suffering the after effects of stroke.
Since a stroke is the result of a lack of blood flow to a particular part of the brain, scalp acupuncture is the most logical form of treatment to help restore the circulation to the damaged area. The results are largely time dependent, in that the sooner treatment is begun following the stroke, the better will be the results.
The U.S. doctors were fortunate – as were the patients – to be able to commence treatment using scalp acupuncture within a month of the stroke for most of the patients. Because of the timeliness of treatment, one patient who had been paralyzed on his left side was able to actually DANCE with his wife in the ward after two days of treatment. Another patient who had come into the hospital in a wh! eelchair pushed his wife around in the hospital in the wheelchair with a big smile on his face, after two days or treatment. Another patient who had been left with post stroke dysphasia, or the inability to communicate verbally with much comprehension, by the end of the week was reading the newspaper out loud.
The ironic juxtaposition mentioned in the beginning of this article stems from the fact that these people would not have gotten scalp acupuncture, had the doctors from the U.S.A. not been at the hospital to deliver the treatments as part of the internship program. All conventional Western medical hospitals in China do not necessarily have acupuncturists on staff to treat patients. Additionally, since Dr. Zhu lives in the U.S.A., doctors in China are not trained in this uniquely powerful method of treating people who have had strokes.
The mission of the Alternative Medicine Family Care Center is to help as many people as possible in their quest for optimal health and to educate them so that they in turn will educate others about the benefits of Alternative Medicine. If you have any questions about Alternative Medicine, please call us at 772-778-8877. We are here to help you.
Questions can also be addressed to Danny Quaranto, Doctor of Oriental Medicine at: DrDanny@bellsouth.net.
Danny Quaranto, DOM
Alternative Medicine Family Care Center
3408 Aviation Blvd. Vero Beach, Fl. 32960-1954
772-778-8877 FAX 778-9509
www.AMFCC.info
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I'm the class rep for NESA 96'. Class of 96'alumni wanted! Please contact Santiago Sifre for information about activities associated with the class of 96': 305-672-4403.
Santiago Sifre 96'
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I am the class rep for 1984. The only news I have is that my continuing education course "Implementing EFT to Promote Positive Clinical Results" will be presented in Orlando in October and Miami in November. Details are provided on my website www.efttransitions.com.
Thanks, Susan Davis
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I personally have been travelling again. I went to the NADA International Convention in Helsinki @ Helsinki University. Was a fairly good size group. If there is anyone out their who can translate my Point Location text into Finnish, it will sell. I met a woman who, with a colleague, started a school in Helsinki and Porvoo. It's a 600+ hour course. No tesxt in Finnish so she and her colleague are writing a text book. At the present time, there are no regulations at all concerning Eastern medicine in Finland. Sounds like NESA in the 70's. It's fairly easy communicating in Finland inasmuch as most people speak some English. Can't say the same for Russia. I learned with the more educated population acupuncture is being used. I didn't even attempt to find an acupuncturist in the short time I was there. If anyone has time, St. Petersburg is beautiful! That's about it from me for now.
Barbara Ferro
'86 Class Rep
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Hi,
I just wanted to share some news with NESA alumni that former Nesa Faculty member Dr. Cheng Xiaoming has finished his long awaited clinical desk reference. You can preview and order the book here: http://www.lulu.com/content/400597
Ben
Benjamin D. Feeley
Licensed Acupuncturist Board Certified Chinese Herbalist
617-733-6921
theacupuncturist@mac.com
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Hello,
Nicole Stockholm '99, Susan Patten '02 and Lynne Deschenes '99 have come to together to open Access Acupuncture. The practice is offered in Lynne's office at Amesbury Acupuncture, located in Amesbury, MA. We run clinic twice weekly Tuesdays 3-7 pm and Fridays 8:30-12:30. We have registered 175 clients since we opened last Sept 15, 2006. Our target market are people with lower income and the chronically ill. If you would like more information call me at 978-407-0204. Our website is in the works but it will be theaccessclinic.com
Thanks, Lynne Deschenes M.Ac. NESA '99.
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Hi Friends at NESA,
I'd like to share some good news with the community. I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the British Acupuncture Council's annual conference in September. I will be speaking on Pathways/AIDS Care Project's work on using acupuncture to promote medication adherence and related health economics of cost-effectiveness research. Thanks.
Beth Sommers (1979 NESA grad)
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Aaron Askanase '02 is heading to Israel with his wife and two daughters to explore Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Healing for the next two years. Aaron and his family leave on June 10th; if you would like to contact him before he moves, he can be reached at 617-669-8503 or www.askanaseacupuncture.com
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Andrew Wegman '00 is opening Manchester Acupuncture Studio at 400 Bedford Street in Manchester, NH. MAS is one of the first full-time acupuncture clinics established on the east coast as part of the Community Acupuncture Network (CAN), whose mission is to make acupuncture affordable for as many people as possible. For more information, please contact Andrew at manchester.community.acupuncture@gmail.com
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Barbara Ferro is interested in hearing from fellow '86 classmates! Please contact her at acubarbara@aol.com so that you can be included on communications regarding class reunions, etc.!
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Karla Renaud and Sandy Gray are planning a 5th year reunion for the NESA Class of 2002 ! Karla would love to hear from classmates now so that she and Sandy can finalize the event plans. Karla can be reached at karlarenaud@earthlink.net or 603-225-1189.
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Elaine Walsh '97 was an invited speaker at the North American Association for Laser Therapy Conference in Toronto, June 2006. She presented a review of the current literature on laser smoking cessation. Elaine recently designed and successfully completed a clinical trial, showing significant improvement using low-level laser acupuncture in the treatment of mild to moderate carpal tunnel syndrome. She is an elected board member of NAALT and a founding member of the American Society for Laser Acupuncture Therapy. For further information about NAALT or ASLAT, please contact Elaine at ewacupuncture@earthlink.net.
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