Harvard Welcomes Acupuncture Professor from Northwestern Health Sciences University

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. –In an effort to bridge the gap between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and western medicine, Wei Liu, LAc, TCMD, a professor in the Minnesota College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Northwestern Health Sciences University, was invited for the second time to Harvard Medical School to teach physicians from all over the United States and Europe about acupuncture.

The physicians were taking part in a year-long continuing education program held on weekends at Harvard. Liu’s class, entitled “Acupuncture Treatment Strategy and Technique Demonstration,” was a morning-long seminar that consisted of both a lecture and an acupuncture demonstration. “For the demonstration part, I treated eight of the physicians,” said Liu. “All of them felt the benefits of the acupuncture right away.”

Liu believes his class is an important class to teach in the United States. “In China, they know how to integrate TCM with the practices of medical doctors,” says Liu. “In the United States, medical doctors don’t often use TCM.”

According to Liu, he was invited to teach the class after meeting a Harvard employee in New York City at an acupuncture conference. He expects to return to teach the class annually.

Northwestern Health Sciences University offers a wide array of choices in natural health care education including chiropractic, Oriental medicine, acupuncture, therapeutic massage and human biology. The University has nearly 900 students on a 25-acre campus in Bloomington, Minnesota.