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2026 New Year Message Dear Members, Colleagues, and Friends, As the year turns and a new chapter begins, we welcome the 2026 Lunar New Year with joy and gratitude. On behalf of the American TCM Association, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks and sincere New Year wishes to all our long-standing and new […]

Reported by Wei Hui, Executive Director of the ATCMA On March 1st, I am honored to have been invited to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting Dinner of the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) in the United States. The theme of this dinner is to award Dr. Jiaowang Yi the “Lifetime Achievement

07/30/2021 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) introduced a bill to increase access to acupuncture in our healthcare system, the Acupuncture for Seniors Act. The Acupuncture for Seniors Act ensures that licensed acupuncturists can participate as providers in Medicare so that seniors have another effective treatment option available to them. “Everyone deserves the ability to take

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-27) introduced a bill to increase access to acupuncture in our healthcare system, the Acupuncture for Seniors Act. The Acupuncture for Seniors Act ensures that licensed acupuncturists can participate as providers in Medicare so that seniors have another effective treatment option available to them. “Everyone deserves the ability to take control

Arthur Yin Fan, Sarah Faggert
In recent decades, acupuncture has been used more widely and extensively in the United States (U.S.). However, there have been no national surveys or analyzes reported in academic journals on the number of practicing or licensed acupuncturists. This study was conducted to identify the approximate number of licensed acupuncturists active in 2015. The Board of Acupuncture or Board of Medicine in each state or U.S. territory was contacted to collect data.

Author: Arthur Yin Fan10/31/2017 【《针灸应对阿片类药物危机白皮书》2.0版在《整合医学杂志》与《经络杂志》同时发表】 Arthur Yin Fan Full TXT(link is external) PDF(link is external)                                             The title of White Paper is “Acupuncture’s Role in Solving the Opioid Epidemic: Evidence, Cost-Effectiveness, and Care Availability for Acupuncture as a

The American Traditional Chinese Medicine Association (ATCMA) and Traditional Chinese Medicine Alumni Association (TCMAAA) hosted the 3rd ATCMA Congress just outside the nation’s capital on September 16th and 17th 2017. The lively event was attended by over 300 including multiple esteemed presenters and researchers from China and international practitioners. Two tracks were offered in advanced