OVERVIEW

About TCM World Foundation
Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine 2008 is presented by Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation, a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit organization founded in 1995. The Foundation's goal is to serve as a source for authentic information on Taoist healing and traditional Chinese medicine through educational programs, publications, and research. Programs include the Breast Cancer Prevention Project; the Dragon's Way® Stress Management and Weight Loss Program; Finding Freedom Healing Retreats; Menopause Naturally; Taiji for Health - Beyond the Martial Arts, and Qidancing.

Organizing Committee
Xiu-Min Li, MD (Committee Chair)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Immunobiology
Director, Center for Chinese Herbal Therapy for Allergy and Asthma
Division of Pediatric Allergy & Immunobiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Effie Poy Yew Chow, PhD, RN, LAc
President, East West Academy of Healing Arts (CA)
Member, White House Commission on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
San Francisco, CA

Stephen Cowan, MD, FAAP
The Center for Health and Healing
Mt. Kisco, NY

David L. Felten, MD, PhD
Medical Research Director
Beaumont Research Institute
William Beaumont Hospitals
Royal Oak, MI

Lixin Huang, MS
President
American College of
Traditional Chinese Medicine
San Francisco, CA

Lixing Lao, MD, PhD, LAc
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Director of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research
Center for Integrative Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Henry S. Sacks, MD
Professor, Community & Preventive Medicine
Director, Thomas C. Chalmers Clinical Trials Unit
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY

Michael Taromina, Esq.

Previous Conference Web sites
2007 Building Bridges for TCM Web site
2006 Building Bridges for TCM Web site
2005 Building Bridges for TCM Web site
2004 Building Bridges for TCM Web site
2003 Building Bridges for TCM Web site