SPEAKERS
OCTOBER 20 - 23, 2011 • CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA
Dianne M. Connelly
PhD, MAc (UK), MA, DiplAc (NCCAOM)
Co-Founder, Chancellor Emeritus
Tai Sophia Institute
Laurel, Maryland
Dr. Connelly has been a traditional acupuncture practitioner since 1973. She received her master’s qualification from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (UK), and obtained a PhD in cross-cultural medicine from Union Graduate School, an M.A. from New York University of Education, and her bacherlor’s from LeMoyne College. She has served as a commissioner of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She conducts workshops nationwide and lectures annually in Germany and Italy. Dr. Connelly is the author of Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements, All Sickness is Homesickness, Medicine Words: Language of Love for the Treatment Room of Life, and with Katharine Hancock Porter, Alive and Awake: Wisdom for Kids. She is the mother of Blaize, Jade, and Caeli, as well as grandmother to Tamar, Lennox, Rianna, Roman, and Maxim.
