You are welcome to attend the Seminar. Please find the details below:

Date: September 25, 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm (Registration starts at 2:30pm)
Venue: Seminar Room 3, G/F, The HKJC Building for Interdisciplinary Research, 5 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Mode: Face to face
Language: English
Fee: Free of Charge
CME Points for RCMPs: 2 points
Registration: HERE
Enquires: Tel: 81000538；Email：scmevent@hku.hk

Speaker:
Dr. Li Yong Ming
Former President, American Traditional Chinese Medicine Society

Moderator:
Professor Feng Yi Bin
Director, School of Chinese Medicine, HKU

Abstract:

Determining whether acupuncture is a "super placebo" requires a nuanced understanding of its mechanisms, comprehensive analyses of clinical trial data, and innovative hypotheses for future research. The concepts proposed by the author—soft & hard acupuncture, the pan-acupoint phenomenon, and the balloon theory, offer intriguing frameworks to explore how acupuncture may function beyond simple placebo and traditional beliefs, potentially guiding the direction of future basic research and clinical practices in acupuncture medicine.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Li is an American board-certified pathologist, dermatopathologist, and also licensed physician and acupuncturist in New Jersey. He had a BM from Liaoning College of TCM in China and PhD in immunology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA. After several years medical research at the Picower Institute for Medical Research, he completed his residency at North Shore University Hospital and his fellowship at Ackerman Academy, Columbia University. Dr. Li was the past President of American Traditional Chinese Medicine Society (ATCMS) and the Chair of AAPAS. Dr. Li has published extensively in journals like Nature Medicine, PNAS, NEJM, JAMA, Cancer Res, J. Anatomy, and also has several books published, including Acupuncture Journey to America (美國針灸熱傳奇). For over ten years, he served as Study Section Member to review grants at NIH. Dr. Li has received 4 issued US patents and proposed a number of new concepts in acupuncture, including soft & hard acupuncture, pan-acupoints, balloon theory, and the map of mast cells correlating with acupoints and micro-acupuncture systems. Dr. Li is the recipient of NIH Merit Award in 2011, the First Tiansheng Bronze Statute Award (天聖銅人獎) in acupuncture search from WFAS in 2017, and the Second International and Achievement Award in Chinese Medicine from WFCMS in 2019.