“Acupuncture and Integrative Care” with Wei Huang, MD, PhD

Dr. Wei Huang is an Associate Professor in Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. She received her medical degree in Shanghai, PhD in Neuroscience/Psychology at Vanderbilt University, and residency training at UNC Chapel Hill. Besides being a Board-certified physiatrist, Dr. Huang is also certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine and is a certified acupuncturist in Georgia. She is the founding physician of the first acupuncture clinic and the first integrative medicine clinic at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, and often acts as a consultant to regional medical centers to set up acupuncture clinics. She is currently a Medical co-Director of Acupuncture Service which opened in December last year as a Specialty Service under the Emory Clinics. Dr. Huang is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and also acts as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple journals, including BMJ, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, European Journal of Integrative Medicine, and Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, all publishing research articles in complementary alternative medicine. Her own research and publications have been in acupuncture, Tai Chi, sleep, and traumatic brain injury. To commemorate her services, the Women’s Veterans for Social Justice awarded her withLifetime Award for Research and Practice in Integrative Medicine in 2017. 

Acupuncture is one of the oldest ways of treatment that has been gaining popularity in the past 20 years. In this conversation Dr. Huang discuses the basics of acupuncture treatment. How does it work? What is the history of it? What conditions is it effective for? How long does it take to see the effects? How to find a good acupuncture specialist? What are the cases when acupuncture is covered by insurance? Dr. Huang covers all of those questions and shares some of the easy ways we can use acupuncture principles even at home. Tune in to learn more!

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