Reservations:
Overview:
7 hours NCCAOM PDA credit
9:00am-5:30pm
Guest Speakers & Lectures: Engage with experts in acupuncture & herbs and attend informative workshops covering various aspects of practice
Catered Lunch: Savor a delicious catered lunch from Bibibop! (included in ticket price)
Join us for a momentous occasion as we gather to celebrate the incredible successes and milestones achieved by the Ohio Acupuncture Association over the past year. The End of Year Symposium promises to be a day of reflection, inspiration, and anticipation for the future of acupuncture in the state of Ohio. This year alone we’ve transformed in so many ways!
1. Organization Name Change & Removing "Oriental" from the State Code:
The Ohio Acupuncture Association unveiled its new identity, reflecting our commitment to inclusivity. We applaud the successful advocacy efforts that led to the removal of outdated terminology, ensuring that Ohio's policies reflect respect and cultural sensitivity.
2. Legislation for Herbal Practice:
Our advocacy led to the passage of legislation that reinstated herbs into the scope of our practice, expanding the range of services we can provide to our patients.
3. Removal of Supervision Requirements:
We’ve removed burdensome supervision requirements, empowering acupuncturists to practice with more autonomy and confidence.
4. Acupuncture Advisory Committee:
We’ve witnessed history in the making as we established the very first Acupuncture Advisory Committee within the State Medical Board of Ohio. This pivotal development signals the growing recognition of acupuncture's vital role in healthcare.
5. New Reciprocity Laws:
We’ve influenced new reciprocity laws that will ease the path for acupuncturists from other states to practice in Ohio, fostering collaboration and enhancing the quality of care for our patients.
While we gather to celebrate, it's important to note that our dedication to the advancement of acupuncture in Ohio does not end here. In addition to the accomplishments we are honoring, we are committed to continuing our advocacy and work in various areas to further elevate the practice of acupuncture in our state.
Schedule:
9:00am - 10:30am: Creating A Life Of Balance // Mary Dinneen
10:45am - 11:45am: Moving the Needle on Black Maternal Mortality: Using Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine to Address Disparities in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity // Krystal Robinson Justice
12:00pm - 1:30pm: Lunch & Member Meeting: OAA & ASA Updates // Esly Caldwell & David Miller
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Integrating Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, and Integrative Health Into an Academic Medical Environment // David Miller
2:45pm - 3:45pm: What You Should Know About Electroacupuncture // David Wang
4:00pm - 5:00pm: Acupuncture and Herbs in the treatment of Acne // Brette Luck
5:00pm - 5:30pm: Snack & Socializing
Lectures:
Creating A Life Of Balance
Mary F. Dinneen, LAc., LOM, LMT
Why do patients come to us? Most often they want to restore their health and wellbeing after experiencing a disease, illness or injury. What if our job is more than this? What if our job is to partner with our patients and teach them how to NOT need us? Could we teach our patients to not need us? Could we educate them about their personal health responsibility? And could we teach them to partner with us in managing their own wellbeing? The answer to all three questions is YES! Ancient Chinese Medicine practitioners spoke of the three legged stool as a metaphor for good health and a good life. The three legs of the “stool” are practices that are essential for the patient to do if they want long term sustained healing: Movement, Meals (diet) and Meditation. These ancient foundational practices set the patient up for an easier recovery when faced with any kind of health challenge. But without the awareness of these foundational practices a person is destined to seek continued outside services, looking for someone else to “fix” them. Although this might benefit our short term revenues, it is not in the best long term interest of our patients to keep them dependent on our services. During this class, we will review the three foundational practices. We will also discuss how to talk with our patients about these practices and the importance of creating a foundational balance. Going forward with this understanding, when a health crisis arises (and it will) then these foundational practices combined with your support will ultimately catapult each patient back to health.
• Identify the three foundational TCM practices: Movement, Meals, Meditation.
• Inform patients about the TCM foundational practices.
• Discuss the health benefits, with patients, of having a regular practice of Movement, Meals, and Meditation
Moving the Needle on Black Maternal Mortality: Using Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine to Address Disparities in Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
Dr. Krystal Robinson Justice, DAIM, LAc.
Understand the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis within both the US and Global Contexts
Explore the various causes and interlocking factors that contribute to to the mortality crisis
Review research on the safety and efficacy of acupuncture & East Asian Medicine in pregnancy; including the “forbidden” points.
Investigate the ways acupuncture and East Asian Medicine can positively impact the factors that contribute to maternal mortality and morbidity.
Integrating Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, and Integrative Health Into an Academic Medical Environment
Dr. David W. Miller, MD, LAc
As the evidence base grows for acupuncture and many integrative therapies, opportunities for incorporating these into the academic medical setting also increase. With hospitals mandated to offer non-pharmacologic care for pain, exploding demand for mental health support, increasing patient interest in integrative therapies, and with the system being faced with health challenges such as Long-Covid for which there are not identified care paths, the solutions offered by more holistic systems and strategies are being sought. This talk will explore the landscape of one large, academic medical system as it opens to acupuncture, massage, mind-body medicine and holistic thinking, and will also give an overview of the general terrain nationally, including key considerations to replicating and evolving the model.
Identify ways in which acupuncture and other mind-body techniques are being incorporated into care within academic medical centers.
Understand the opportunities and challenges for incorporating these into the academic medical setting.
Recognize key elements critical for the success of integrating acupuncture and similar therapies into this environment.
What You Should Know About Electroacupuncture
David Dehui Wang Ph.D. L.Ac
Understand the parameters of an electroacupuncture machine and their clinical significance.
Comprehend the functions of electroacupuncture machines.
Identify the best indications and contraindications for their use.
Learn how to select acupuncture points for electroacupuncture treatment.
Master the correct operation of electrical acupuncture machines and understand safety precautions.
Discover techniques to enhance the efficacy of electroacupuncture treatment.
Gain knowledge on selecting a high-quality electroacupuncture machine.
Treatment of Acne with Acupuncture and Herbs
Brette Luck, LAc
Participants will learn the main organ systems and treatment points for acne
Participants will learn the main herbs for acne
Participants will learn how to create a treatment plan for patients coming for acne
Bios:
Mary F. Dinneen, LAc., LOM, LMT
Mary Dinneen is an Oriental Medicine Practitioner who is celebrating her 20th year as an Ohio licensed practitioner in the Columbus area. Mary is Co-Founder of the Ohio Acupuncture Association. She was an instructor to many of the first Ohio graduates from AIAM. She was the legislative chair when the 2014 law passed to include herbs into the Ohio Acupuncture practice. She has a M.S. from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine and a B.S.n education from The Ohio State University. Mary is a recent author of the book: Live Fully, Release the Fear, Embrace Inner Faith. In her book, at the request of her patients, she shares many of the insights of Traditional Chinese Medicine she has learned over the years.
Dr. Krystal Robinson Justice, DAIM, LAc.
When Krystal Robinson Justice, DAIM, LAc, graduated from Harvard University she had no idea that 20 years later her path would lead her to East Asian Medicine, acupuncture and herbs. The shift began while working at a youth leadership and community development non-profit in East Oakland, CA. She got a chance to experience the medicine, see it work, witness disenfranchised young people of color seek it out, and hear very blunt questions and descriptions of their internal and external experience with it. This began her fascination with our medicine and the prospect that it could positively impact people and communities devastated by institutional and systemic racism and neglect.
This talk is a result of Krystal's clinical work with fertility and maternity patients at Ohio Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine and her doctoral project in Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine. She has received both her Doctorate in Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine and her Master’s of Oriental Medicine from Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley; studied neurological disorders with the First Teaching Hospital at the Tianjin University of TCM in China; is a certified QiGong Teacher in the Radiant Heart Tradition and a licensed acupuncturist in Ohio.
Brette Luck, LAc
Brette's interest in treating acne started with her personal experience as a young adult being treated with acupuncture and herbs. Her interest continued during school, where she sought to treat as many acne and dermatological cases as possible, often treating classmates and friends. In her fourteen years since graduating she’s continued to grow in her experience and knowledge in treating acne cases. This class covers what she wishes she had known 14 years ago to help her understand how acupuncture and herbs can get lasting results in challenging cases.
Brette has a Masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the New England School of Acupuncture, a Masters in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University. She has worked on several clinical trials and treated children and young adults as part of Nationwide Children’s Hospital's Pain Services Clinic. Brette founded Ohio Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine 10 years ago. This clinic has grown to have 4 acupuncturists and a herbal pharmacy.
Dr. David W. Miller, MD, LAc
Dr. David W. Miller, MD, LAc is the founding Medical Director for Pediatric Integrative Medicine with the University Hospitals Connor Integrative Health Network and Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He is one of the only physicians dually board certified in Pediatrics (American Board of Pediatrics) and Chinese medicine (NCCAOM - National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine). Prior to joining the UH Connor network, Dr. Miller was in private practice with East-West Integrated Medicine, LLC in Chicago, Illinois for 15 years, and saw patients of all ages for holistic and integrative care.
Dr. Miller has designed curricula in masters and doctoral programs in integrative physiology, pediatrics, medical communications, and public health and is an active participant and leader in numerous state and nation medical associations. He is the founding Chair, and now Immediate Past Chair, of the American Society of Acupuncturists www.asacu.com, and immediate past-Chair of the NCCAOM board development committee on Biomedicine.
David Dehui Wang Ph.D. L.Ac
David D. Wang earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in China, where he received formal medical education and rigorous training in both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. He is nationally certified in acupuncture and Chinese herbology, licensed in acupuncture in Ohio, and has over 38 years of clinical experience, including 10 years working as a physician in China. He was a senior attending physician at the Guang An Men hospital in Beijing before moving to the United States in 1995. He has been practicing and teaching acupuncture and Oriental medicine in the U.S. since 1995. From 1995 to 2000, he was the Academic Dean and Clinic Director of the International Institute of Chinese Medicine in Santa Fe, NM. He also served as the Dean of Oriental Medicine at the American Institute of Alternative Medicine in Columbus, OH, from 2001 to 2005, where he designed and established the first professional master’s acupuncture program in Ohio. Since 2005, he has been working at the Ohio State University Center for Integrative Health, where he is an Assistant Professor-clinical. Other positions he holds include being a professor of the doctorate program at the American Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Minneapolis, MN, and a Senior Expert of the first expert committee of China-US Institute for Acupuncture and Rehabilitation at Wenzhou Medical University in China. He is also the co-founder and past president of the Ohio Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
David D. Wang was honored in 2004 by the Ohio House of Representatives and Columbus City Council for his outstanding contributions to the field of alternative medicine. He received an Excellence rating in the Patient Health Education Interdisciplinary Team Award from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in 2008. He received a Certificate of Congressional Recognition in 2019 for his outstanding achievements in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine and his efforts to improve lives through the benefits of integrative medicine. Most recently, he was recognized by the national “Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Day” celebration conference for his outstanding contributions to founding the Ohio Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine on Oct. 24, 2022.
David D. Wang is a member of various acupuncture and Chinese medicine professional organizations. He is the vice president and the Chair of Internal Medicine of the American Traditional Chinese Medicine Association, the vice president of the Traditional Chinese Medicine American Alumni Association, the vice president of the Specialty Committee of Constitutional Medicine of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. He is an executive council member of the Board of Specialty Committee of Internal Medicine and a council member of the 3rd Board of Specialty Committee of Hepatology of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. He is an advisor at the Acupuncture Advisory Council of the Ohio State Medical Board. He has taught and lectured extensively on traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. He has also been invited to speak at national and international conferences and contributed to published research articles and books.