Isabel Adkins, BA, CMT, CMLDT, developed and is the primary instructor for the 300-hour certification program in Oncology Massage-Blending East with West™ at the Massage Therapy Institute, Davis, California.

Her work includes integrating comfort-based massage with Eastern bodywork modalities to strengthen the body during cancer treatment, disease and it's trauma. She directed and supervised the Oncology Massage Program at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and has been a keynote speaker at the UC Davis Cancer Center forums on Complementary Medicine.

Isabel contributed a chapter to the 2nd edition of Medicine Hands: Massage Therapy for People with Cancer on the topic of using a Chinese Medicine approach to Oncology Massage.