Guanyuan Jin

Guanyuan Jin is a medical acupuncturist, Qigong master and Chinese herbalist practising in the United States who combines traditional Chinese medicine with Western medical training. In the late 1960s he apprenticed under Master Jiao Mianzhai of Shandong, described as one of the four pioneering acupuncturists of modern China, and under other noted acupuncture experts, and in 1982 he graduated from Zhejiang University, where he later taught physiology and carried out research on scientific acupuncture. After coming to the United States in the late 1980s he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin and became one of the first nationally board certified acupuncturists and Chinese herbologists. He runs a private practice in Milwaukee, served as acupuncture advisor for the State of Wisconsin from 1993 to 2005, and holds an honorary professorship of traditional Chinese medicine at Guangzhou University. He has written 25 professional textbooks, among them Contemporary Medical Acupuncture: A Systems Approach (2007).