Biography

Professor Lao Lixing, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Coalition of Wildlife Protection in TCM, USA. Professor and President, Virginia University of Integrative Medicine (VUIM), USA. Prior to his position at VUIM, he was a Professor in the University of Maryland, Medical School (1992-2013), and the Director of the School of Chinese Medicine, HKU during 2013-2019. Professor Lao has been a long-term advocator of wildlife protection in TCM since 1998 when he gave a testimony on a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Resources which led to the pass of the Act: “Use of Endangered Species in Chinese Medicines for the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act”.