About the Instructor:
 Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, AAOM Educator of the Year, is an internationally-recognized author, teacher, Oriental medical practitioner and musician – a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, Zen shiatsu and cranio-sacral therapist, and an opera singer. An outspoken and articulate advocate of Oriental medicine, she is a creator of innovative treatment protocols and writer for acupuncture periodicals – including a regular column in Acupuncture Today magazine – and has contributed significantly to raising public awareness of facial acupuncture as a viable, holistic treatment modality.
In November 2008, she was the only North American acupuncturist invited to present at an international TCM Forum sponsored by Shanghai Shuguang Hospital, associated with the Shanghai University of TCM. Continuing to expand her educational reach beyond North America, Mary Elizabeth then taught her first Japanese facial acupuncture seminar in Tokyo, Japan, sponsored by the Japanese facial acupuncture organization, JFACe, for which she functions in an advisory capacity. In May of 2008, she taught a seminar in Brisbane, Queensland, and then appeared as an invited speaker at the 2008 AACMAC acupuncture conference in Sydney, New South Wales. She will be returning to Australasia in February-March 2009 for a series of 5 events in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland, New Zealand. In November 2009, Mary Elizabeth will be a presenter at the prestigious PCOM Symposium in San Diego, CA, and later in the month will return to Tokyo for an expanded series of facial acupuncture seminars.
Mary Elizabeth’s system of Constitutional Facial Acupuncture Renewal™ was recently featured in the Style section of the New York Times, including her unique Diamond Acupuncture Facial™ created for the Oscars in 2005. She has been featured on Fox News, ABC-TV, the Discovery Channel’s Fit Nation, in a number of periodicals including Luxury Spa Finder, American Spa, Spa Asia, Dining Out, and Les Nouvelles Esthetique, and in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, The Seattle Times, etc. Mary Elizabeth has contributed to and/or been interviewed for articles in Alternative Medicine, Qi Magazine, Oriental Medicine Journal, and CA Journal of Oriental Medicine, and has trained over 2,500 practitioners in her unique philosophy and treatment protocols.
She currently holds the position of Adjunct Professor of Facial Acupuncture at Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College (AIMC) in Berkeley, CA; she has also created a facial acupuncture elective for the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York, based upon her own treatment protocols in Constitutional Facial Acupuncture Renewal™, which was initially taught to acupuncture students during the summer of 2007, and is now an official elective for the second semester in a row. Due to the success of this course, facial acupuncture is now offered at the PCOM-NY student clinic. Mary Elizabeth is a graduate of Tri-State College of Acupuncture in New York City, and has studied with such notable acupuncturists as Carolyn Bengston, Kiiko Matsumoto, Dr. Mark Seem, Arya Nielson, Jeffrey Yuen, Dr. Richard Tan, Fabien Maman, Yitian Ni and Donna Carey. She also holds a B. M. from the University of Michigan, and an M. M. from Indiana University.
Ms. Wakefield has taught seminars at AZ Acupuncture School in Tucson, AZ, NESA in Newton, MA, SBCOM in Santa Barbara, ACTCM in San Francisco, AIMC in Berkeley, and in Oakland, CA, Mercy College and Swedish Institute in New York, NY, in Hawaii, Orlando, FL, Santa Fe, NM, Bastyr University in Seattle, WA, Michener Institute in Toronto, Vancouver, BC, CANADA, and other locations. She has also trained the acupuncture staffs of the Tucson, AZ, and Lenox, MA, locations of the Canyon Ranch Spa.
In 2007, she was featured as a presenter at the AAAOM Conference and Symposium in Portland, OR, and. also appeared at a symposium in New York City sponsored by Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. In 2006, she was a featured speaker at the AOMA Southwest Symposium in Austin, TX, and also at the PCOM Symposium in New York City in July. In 2005, she shared top billing with noted colleagues Jeffrey Yuen and Miki Shima at the Conference of the AAAOM in Chicago, IL, where she was named Educator of the Year.
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