Ms. Shelley Xuan Chen This is Me

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1. 1. Acupunturist, Herbalist, and Tuina Massage Therapist in Boston and Waltham, Massachusetts

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   Published on: 9/23/2006   Last Visited: 9/23/2006

   "Shelley" Xuan Chen, Herbalist Ms. Chen obtained her Bachelor of Medicine in TCM from Beijing University of TCM in 2000. She worked as an acupuncturist at Dongzhimen Hospital, China Academy of TCM in Beijing in 2000. She received advanced training at Institute of Acupuncture, China Academy of TCM in 2004. She had worked at a TCM clinic in Seattle, WA from 2001-2003. She currently volunteers at Clinic while preparing for her application of acupuncture license from Mass. Board of Medicine.
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   Mr. Chen works with practitioners to develop procedures and programs for applying TCM to better treat chronic conditions and for evaluating treatment effectiveness. He helps practitioners to work with patients and physicians to build better integration between TCM and the Western medicine. He also develops and coordinates research projects and educational programs. He obtained his BS in Marine Biology from Xiamen University, China in 1982, MS in Computation & Neural systems from Caltech in Pasadena, CA in 1989, and PhD in Neurobiology from USC in Los Angeles, CA in 1993. Previously he worked at MIT's Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a research neuroscientist and published a number of biomedical papers in SCIENCE and CELL. His interest in TCM originated in his childhood, when his parents were pharmacists in China.
   
   Dr. Chen hopes to bring wellness culture into the main stream American life, in contrast to a increasingly pervasive trend in quick fixes and consumer mindset. He coins a term, WELLISM to represent the search for foundamental understanding and practice of sustainable well-living.
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   "Shelley" Xuan Chen