Al Stone L.Ac., DAOM

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Education

• 2004-2007: Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine - Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

• 1993-1997: Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine - Masters degree  in Traditional Oriental Medicine

• 1997-1998: Yunnan Province TCM Hospital: Interned in their internal medicine department where Chinese medicine (herbs) were used in the treatment of hepatitis.

Teaching

• Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine MD Tutorial Program-Santa Monica, Ca. 1999 to 2001.  Provided individual tutoring to biomedical physicians who desired training in TOM.
• ECTOM Master Degree Program-Santa Monica, Ca. June, 1999 to 2007. Classes taught include Introduction to Herbology, Oriental Diagnosis, Zang-Fu Syndromes (internal medicine), and Scalp Acupuncture.
• ECTOM Clinical Supervisor-Santa Monica, Ca. June, 1999 to 2007. Duties include overseeing student interns’ diagnoses and creation of treatment protocols as well as the implementation of treatment. I have also taught a class called “clinical theatre” where students observe me providing treatment.
• California Acupuncture Board Continuing Education Provider #598. I teach a five-hour course in Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act as applied to the marketing of herbal supplements for acupuncturists in California as well as a course on herb-drug interactions. I also teach a three-hour course on Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis.
• California Acupuncture Board Continuing Education - "Pulse Diagnosis Made Rediculously Simple"
• Continuing Medical Education instructor for physicians and nurses on the topic of Herb/Drug Interactions, and the Integration of Herbs and Pharmacotherapies into a biomedical internal medicine practice.

Publications

• Qiao, Y., Stone, AL. Traditional Chinese Medicine - Diagnosis Study Guide,  Eastland Press 350pp. 2008
• Qiao, Y., Stone, AL. Chinese Herbal Medicine - Formula Study Guide Snow Lotus Press, 360 pp. 2000.
• Xuan, G., Chen, D., Stone, AL. (ed.) The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine: Lupus Erythematosus People’s Medical Publishing House, Beijing, China. 2007
• Xuan, G., Chen, D., Stone, AL. (ed.) The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine: Scleroderma & Dermatomyositis People’s Medical Publishing House, Beijing, China. 2007
• University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, The Root, Branch, and Smell of AIDS, www.Acupuncture.com August, 1996. Source: http://acupuncture.com/conditions/aids.htm [Copywrite 1996 Al Stone]
• Stone, AL., Traditional diagnosis-a backward look at our future, The American Acupuncturist, March 1997.
• Stone, AL., Ba dou, a new look at an old devil, The American Acupuncturist, September, 1997.
• Kim, K., Stone, AL. (ed.) Oriental Medicine, a Modern Interpretation Yuin University Press 318pp., 1996.

Web-based Educational / Public Information Projects

Acupuncture.com: creator and webmaster from 1995 to 2002. Website houses hundreds of articles, many of which were self-authored. Articles target consumers, students and practitioners of TCM (Traditional Chinese or “Oriental” Medicine).

http://beyondwellbeing.com : webmaster and author, 1998 to present. Website features extensive articles on my practice specialties of IBS and headaches. There is also a fun prognosis tool and popular tongue diagnosis test available on-line.

http://gancao.net : webmaster and author, 2002 to present. Website serves as a portal for traditional Chinese medicine resources worldwide. This site features a number of self-authored articles on a variety of topics of interest to patients and practitioners alike including a self-authored continuing education class on the DSHEA (Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act of 1994) for acupuncturists.

http://pointinjection.com : webmaster, 2002 to present. Website features articles describing the use of herbs that are injected into acupuncture points. Point Injection is a somewhat new yet widely practiced technique in China.

http://eagleherbs.com : webmaster and author, 2009 to present. Website targets consumers and online sales of Chinese herbal medicines.

Clinical Experience

• Unity Clinic, West Hollywood CA. 1998-1999. Acupuncturist.
• Beyond Well Being, Santa Monica, CA. 1998-Present. Acupuncturist, herbalist.

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